Abstract:
Readers' Forum. Don Frew's Harran Hypothesis -- Spells, Saints, and Streghe: Witchcraft, Folk Magic, and Healing in Italy / by Sabina Magliocco -- Blót on the Landscape: Re-reading Pope Gregory's Letter on the Heathen Temples / by Jeremy Harte -- Shamanistic Elements in Zoroastrianism: The Pagan past and Modern Reactions / by Touraj Daryaee -- Mirra Alfassa: A Western Occultist in India / by Christine Rhone -- Book Reviews: The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory: Why an Invented Past Will Not Give Women a Future by Cynthia Eller / first review by Laurel Holmström ; second review by Wendy Griffin