Grimassi, Raven

Award-winning author Raven Grimassi is the author of seven books on Wicca and Witchcraft, including Wiccan Mysteries (awarded Best Book of the Year & Best Spirituality Book 1998 by the Coalition of Visionary Retailers), Wiccan Magick, Italian Witchcraft (previously titled Ways of the Strega), Hereditary Witchcraft, Encyclopedia of Wicca & Witchcraft (awarded Best Non-Fiction Book 2001 by the Coalition of Visionary Retailers), Beltane, and the forthcoming title The Witches’ Craft (October 2002).
Raven Grimassi has been a teacher and practitioner of the Craft for nearly 30 years. He is trained in the Family tradition of Italian Witchcraft (also known as Stregheria), and is also an initiate of several Wiccan Traditions, including Brittic Wicca and the Pictish-Gaelic Tradition. He is currently the Directing Elder of the Arician Ways. Raven considers it his life’s work to ensure the survival of ancient witch lore and legend along with ancestral teachings of the Old Religion.
Grimassi has worked as both a writer and editor for several magazines over the past decade, including The Shadow’s Edge (a publication focusing on Italian Witchcraft) and Raven’s Call (a journal of modern Wicca, Witchcraft and Magick).