The Nankin Township Historical Society

I've crossed out the name of this 18-year-old kid because he had all sorts of problems going on. I'm assuming that Gundella crossed out the rest to use on one of the shows she regularly appeared on not to mention that most of it is negative. But that's mere speculation. Said kid had no job but he apparently had money to buy grimoires. He l aso had some good questions and information, not to mention grammatical and letter writing skills. Hartford Courant , November 1, 1995 If I knew the answer to such questions as "why the Witches insist on keeping 'The Goddess's' name secret?" I'd have written a book on the good witch herself. The subject of witchcraft itself seems like a several decade study to even attain a novice working understanding of it. The Billings Gazette , October 30, 1972 Anyway, Bill Kennedy is a familiar name so I'll skip to Dr. Martello's "Witch-In" on Halloween afternoon in NYC's Central Park. 25 years lat...

They often misspelled her name! Eastern Michigan University was fortunate enough to have renown sociologist Marcello Truzzi on their staff and when he died his papers were donated to the institution. Among those were many letters to Gundella the Witch (Truzzi had brought her to local and national prominence a few years beforehand and the two became good friends), both for her Witch Watch column in the Observer newspapers and personal correspondences asking for spells, that Truzzi was using for a study. Hundreds of letters, in fact. Fortunately for me I have a co-worker who goes to school there and was willing to grab me some photos of a few of the letters. Originally, I had wanted them scanned but seeing the photos that she sent makes me realize that they are better seen as is. Since I'm likely going to EMU today to gather some of the Gundella letters so as not to overburden my "colleague" (as the librarian referred to my co-worker in an e-mail; laughably since I'm...