where the writers are Devotions of the Witch: Devozioni della
Strega Devotions for the Witch  Devotions of the Witch was born
in an effort to reproduce, in pagan form, the missal I'd had
when I was much younger, in the Catholic Church. As a young
Italian-American woman, I was given a missal upon my
confirmation in the church, that contained prayers and petitions
dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and all the saints recognized by
the church at that time. Not only did it contain prayers, but it
also included a calendar of holy days, and a Litany of Saints
that would be recited by the priest on special occasions, with
the appropriate responses required by the faithful. I always
loved the concept of remembering the sacrifice of the church's
heroes and heroines in that manner. So I decided to create a
pagan version of this once-beloved book.  I included many of the
prayers I'd written upon the births of my children, and during
their lives, those prayers I taught them at table, etc. Some of
these were originally meant o