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Maxine Sanders (born Arline Maxine Morris; 30 December 1946 [citation needed], in Cheshire) is a key figure in the development of modern pagan witchcraft and Wicca and, along with her late husband, Alex Sanders, the co-founder of Alexandrian Wicca.
The tradition is based largely upon Gardnerian Wicca, in which Sanders was trained, [3] and initiated, and also contains elements of ceremonial magic and Qabalah, which Sanders had studied independently. Maxine Sanders recalls that the name was chosen when Stewart Farrar, a student of the Alex Sanders', began to write What Witches Do. "Stewart ...
Alex Sanders (6 June 1926 – 30 April 1988), born Orrell Alexander Carter, [1] who went under the craft name Verbius, [2] was an English occultist and High Priest in the modern Pagan religion of Wicca, responsible for founding, and later developing with Maxine Sanders, the tradition of Alexandrian Wicca, also called Alexandrian Witchcraft, during the 1960s.
What Witches Do is a book by Stewart Farrar, and is an eye-witness account of Wiccan practices, namely that of the Alexandrian coven run by Alex Sanders and his wife Maxine Sanders. Description [ edit ]
Chthonioi Alexandrian Wicca is a Boston-area family of Alexandrian Wicca-covens directly downline from Coven Chthonioi.Coven Chthonioi grew out of the Alexandrian practice of its founders in the 1970s, has an unbroken lineage back to Alex Sanders and Maxine Sanders, and has been in continuous operation since 1974. [2]
Janet and Stewart Farrar were both elevated to the second degree "in an unoccupied house in Sydenham" by the Sanders on 17 October 1970, and they received the third, and final, degree of initiation in their flat on 24 April 1971. Both events are well-recorded by Stewart Farrar down to the smallest detail in his diaries.
Jacob Bosanquet (1755–1828), English politician, opponent of Napoleon Bonaparte, grandson of David Bosanquet who had taken refuge from Languedoc. [558] Jessie Boucherett, English campaigner for women's rights. [696] Elias Boudinot (1740–1821), president of the American Continental Congress, descended from the Boudinot family of Marans ...
Maxine Nightingale (born 1952), British R&B and soul music singer; Maxine Peake (born 1974), English actress; Maxine Reiner (1916–2003), American actress; Maxine Sanders (born 1946), British Wiccan; Maxine Sullivan (born Marietta Williams, 1911–1987), American jazz vocalist/performer; Maxine Waters (born Maxine Moore Carr, born 1938 ...