Musicking and Soundscapes amongst Magical-Religious Witches Community and Ritual Practices

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Cornish, Helen. 2024. Musicking and Soundscapes amongst Magical-Religious Witches Community and Ritual Practices. Religions, 15(1), 71. ISSN 2077-1444 [Article]

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Drumming and chanting are core practices in modern magical-religious Witchcraft in the absence of unifying texts or standardized rituals. Song and musicality contribute towards self-creation and community making. However, Nature Religions and alternate spiritualities are seldom included in surveys of religious musicking or soundscapes. This article considers musicality in earlier publications on modern Witchcraft, as well as the author’s fieldwork with magical-religious Witches in the UK, to show the valuable contribution they make to discsusions on religious belonging and the sensorium through song, music, percussion, and soundscapes.

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https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15010071