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How the King of the Witches Dusted the Books: Alex Sanders at the John Rylands Library
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Alex Sanders (1926–88), one of the founders of modern pagan witchcraft in
the UK, worked briefly at the John Rylands Library in 1962 as a book duster
before being dismissed for ‘neglect of his duties’. The full
circumstances were more complex, and although Sanders is now the subject of an
article in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography the
episode has never been fully investigated. This article makes use of all
relevant sources, including unpublished records at the John Rylands Library,
books damaged by Sanders, and interviews with former staff, to establish what
happened and what bearing the events had on Sanders’s future career as an
occultist and propagator of pagan witchcraft.
Title: How the King of the Witches Dusted the Books: Alex Sanders at the John Rylands Library
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Alex Sanders (1926–88), one of the founders of modern pagan witchcraft in
the UK, worked briefly at the John Rylands Library in 1962 as a book duster
before being dismissed for ‘neglect of his duties’.
The full
circumstances were more complex, and although Sanders is now the subject of an
article in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography the
episode has never been fully investigated.
This article makes use of all
relevant sources, including unpublished records at the John Rylands Library,
books damaged by Sanders, and interviews with former staff, to establish what
happened and what bearing the events had on Sanders’s future career as an
occultist and propagator of pagan witchcraft.
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