Can you see the signs? The Bloglin has become possessed by a brood of Witches whose coven lies deep below the grave of the Bava and Fulci section of Kim’s Underground video! If you listen close on the nights of the Crescent Moon you can hear their legion chanting out the occult prophecies buried within the lyrics of Tiffany and Real Life… and while Puritans were busy playing Ozzy records backwards, Witchy jagged toothed cackles bubble up from the abyss!

As season of the Witch takes full effect of the elements, the virgin initiates must bow to the High Overlord of the order… ALEX SANDERS. OOoooo

Like all Master Occultists, their biographies are skewed under a vague cloak. Though others claim different, Alex Sanders (1926-1988) recalls his first initiation to the black arts coming from his Wiccan grandmother. A bloodline ancestor of, Owain Glyndwr, the first King of the Witches, Grandma Sanders passed along the sacred wisdoms of witchcraft involving everything from the Book of Shadows to ritual sex with Alex.

Sanders:

“One evening in 1933, when I was seven, I was sent round to my grandmother’s house for tea. For some reason I didn’t knock at the door as I went in, and was confronted by my grandmother, naked, with her grey hair hanging down to her waist, standing in a circle drawn on the kitchen floor.”

Sanders attempted a dual life as an average Joe with a day job and Witch by night, but it eventually deteriorated his marriage and left an unfulfilled void in his life. Sanders faced a grim precipice, which led him to pledge devotion of his entirety to a life to Magic and Wicca… the complete immersion into the Left Hand Path. This submission into the Black Arts soon manifested an unforeseen source of dread in Sanders. After the suicide of one of his mistresses, Sanders took oath to use his powers as a healer and teacher to initiates. This is where his life turned to legend…

In the years following his white magic revelation, Sanders claimed to have healed the Cancer stricken, channeled past Wiccan mystics during seance, and even create a “Spiritual Baby” from an act of “sacred masturbation.” A newspaper article was written on the already too flamboyant Sanders in 1969, as well as a scandalous biography during the same year.

The movie, “Legend of the Witches,” is also allegedly based on his life and times. From all this mainstream publicity, Alex Sanders became an infamous pop star while the other witches grew resentment towards him as an exploiter of the craft. By 1965 he claimed 1,623 initiates in 100 covens, who crowned him with the sobriquet, King of the Witches.

- Cornbluth