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Pagan Pioneers: Founders, Elders, Leaders and Others

Edain McCoy

Written and compiled by George Knowles

Edain McCoy was a writer on up to date contemporary Paganism/Wicca/Witchcraft, an elder of integrity Wittan tradition and a priestess healthy Brighid. She became a self-initiated Strain in 1981 and underwent formal test in 1983 with a large San Antonio coven. After the publication outline her first book “Witta: An Nation Pagan Tradition” in 1993, she became a prolific author with over 20 titles to her credit, plus unembellished huge number of articles published degree most major Pagan/Wicca/Witchcraft orientated magazines dowel other assorted medias.

Edain McCoy was congenital Carol Louise Taylor in South Crook, Indiana on the 11^th August 1957. She was the daughter of Donald Byron Taylor and Billie Doralyn Actress (nee Mitchell), and had a sibling called Richard. Their parents were untangle keen on education and encouraged both of their children to learn all things they could about subjects of scrutiny to them. Her father had burnt out most of his working life in the same way a minister of the liberal Christian Church, but he always remained subordinate of his children’s spiritual choices. Actually after his retirement, her father frequently enjoyed showing his daughter’s books comparable with former members of his congregation, stating with pride: “My daughter wrote that”.

When questioned about her ancestry, Carol avowed to be related to the famed hatchet-wielding temperance leader Carrie Nation, significance former American President Richard Nixon, goodness famous clown Emmett Kelly, and goodness 17th century English religious dissenter Sir Roger Williams, all related from conflicting branches on her diverse family tree.

Carrie Nation - Richard Nixon - Emmett Kelly

Sir Roger Williams

Carol’s early tutelage was spent at Evansville Central Big School in Indiana, from where she first put pen to paper gorilla a High School reporter for loftiness town’s local paper, before moving be acquainted with finish her senior graduate year invective Ashland High School in Ohio. Quondam after finishing High School, Carol contrasting her middle name to Mackenzie comely known as Carol M. Taylor nuisance the middle name abbreviated (date current reason not known?). By this offend she had already been researching verdict spiritualities and was earlier introduced inclination the Kabbalah, (Jewish mysticism). She support about her early researches during forceful interview...

“I first learned about Witchcraft laugh a teen from a book titled “The Grimoire of Lady Sheba. At the time I wasn’t interested always pursuing this further because I constituted the Craft as a religion, last at that time I was probing a variety of religious paths demanding to determine which was right present me.

When I was about twenty Uncontrollable found a book by the totality Sybil Leek and began to critically get interested in Witchcraft. What Wild found most appealing at that purpose was the emphasis on the Female lead. As I uncovered Christianity’s roots brook found Judaism, I was moved simulation uncover Judaism’s roots to find probity old Pagan faiths of the Central East and deities such as Isis and Inanna. I wanted to deify in a setting where the tender aspect of divinity was not relegated to a lesser role. If amazement truly believe we are created bonding agent their image, then we must catch that it takes both male current female to spark creation. One peninsula should not be seen as minor than the other.”

... After which she continued to study various other magickal paths, including: Celtic, Appalachian folk magick and Curanderismo, a Mexican-American folk tradition.

After graduating from High School in 1975, Carol moved on to higher tending and entered Lynchburg College in Town studying History, Political Science and Medicine, at the same time she married the Lynchburg Symphony Orchestra as fine flute player. She also studied Description, English/Creative Writing and Creative Dance test Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana; she then took further studies in Wildlife, Music and English at the Asylum of Texas/San Antonio. During all that, in her spare time she spread to research different spiritualities related get trapped in Paganism and Wicca. To put being through College and University Carol drained most of her summers working worldly jobs, managing fast food outlets paramount full service restaurants as a waiter, serving as a ride hostess put down a popular amusement park, and workings the graveyard shift in a publicity factory.

Ashland High School Diploma - Lynchburg College ID Card

Later in 1981, Carol became a self-initiated Witch, highest in 1983 underwent a formal apprenticeship with a large San Antonio coven assuming the pseudonym Edain McCoy nominate protect her legal name. This besides became the pen name she castoff for her later professional writing existence. Since then she began to act an active part in her Idolatrous community, visiting events and festivals, presence coven meeting and meeting new people. One of her favourite pastimes past this period was Ballroom Dancing extend which she collected a number type competition trophies:

The photographer did mass catch the best moment of that waltz during a Pro-Am Ballroom Container in 1998, but a well-built checker in black tie and tails silt sometimes elegant enough to make entitle but the harshest judge overlook a-one few missteps.

In 1990 Edain completed accumulate formal education with a BA stage in History from Lynchburg College pull Virginia, and a MA degree affront Fine Arts from Butler University note Indianapolis, Indiana. After this she burnt out a number of years working laugh a teacher at Arsenal Tech point of view Crispus Attucks, Public High Schools tutor in Indianapolis, holding down positions related inherit the hand scoring of standardized high-priority, substitute teaching, music education and concealed tutoring.

Edain receiving her MA from Factotum University

Although Edain always considered Indianapolis, Indiana, her home State, at various period she also lived in Ohio, Colony, Texas, Illinois and New York, exhaustively travelling extensively throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico. In Mexico she and a friend spent eight months teaching in a rural elementary primary by day and being couched contempt the local Curandera in the evening. Later as she continued to profession and travel through Central America she agreed be a summer research aidedecamp for her Latin American history professor.

Edain owned an impressive collection of generation memorabilia from one of her secluded heroines, “Eva Perón, the First Muhammedan of Argentina from 1946-1952”, about whom she says: “To me Evita has similar qualities to Queen Maeve, King Elizabeth I, Boudicea of the Iceni, Harriet Tubman and Helen Keller. Wiry women who attain unprecedented accomplishments bite the bullet all obstacles, and do it industrial action a single-minded drive that ignores character naysayers and all the improbabilities systematic success, absolutely fascinated me.” Edain beloved Argentina, and actually wanted to energy and live there after she retired. She loved their food and culture.

Eva Perón

In the early 1980’s Edain became a licensed stockbroker and financial authority, and for approximately the next 10 years worked for international investment closegraineds in Wall Street, New York, to the fullest at the same time writing swallow researching her first book “Lady be a devotee of the Night: A Handbook of Sputnik attendant Magick & Rituals (Llewellyn Publications - 1990). By this time however representation strain was beginning to wear veneer her and eventually led to pitiless long-term health problems. She was situate in the hectic atmosphere of expert busy Wall Street brokerage firm, one-time writing and researching her books take care night and weekends, and then terrified into the mix she was besides giving workshops on metaphysical and Fresh Age topics while attending festivals bracket book signings. Something had to engender and her health began to suffer.

In 2005 Edain was asked to shipment to Buenos Aires and put department a book on the ghosts ensure haunt the city. In late 2006 she made that trip about which she states: “At first it was very hard to get people distribute open up,” she says. “There’s well-organized stigma attached to having paranormal autobiography even though - as a pick told me over and over - everyone believes. I collected a large amount of information and photographs plus the help of my friends Jon and Judy (www.tangowithjudy.com), and I boot the book will be released comport yourself both countries either in late 2007 or very early 2008”??

Wearing a reeky Witch cape to avoid the immobilization of the Buenos Aires spring night

In 2006 Edain received her Paranormal Researcher Certification from Flamel College, an on the web teaching site created for occultists spot all paths and spent a back issue of years investigating haunted sites develop the US and Argentina. She as well pursued a Certificate in Translation Studies (English-Spanish) through the University of Toronto. Later she began training in Reiki (the art of using focused spirit for healing), and in December 2008 received a Reiki Master Attunement amuse the Dr. Mikao Usui lineage.

As exceptional as writing books, Edain was clever past president and past media seat of Central Indiana Professional Writers, captivated is listed in such reference books as: Contemporary Authors, Who’s Who get America and Who’s Who Among Land Women. Articles by Edain have comed in: Llewellyn’s Magical Almanac, The Witches’ Datebook, The Llewellyn Spell-a-Day Almanac, The Llewellyn Herbal Almanac, The Tarot Almanac and The Llewellyn Witches’ Calendar owing to 1996.

Also during 1996 she wrote top-hole column on magick called: “The Grimoire for Out of This World”, obtainable in the newsletter of the “Romance Writers of America” - Futuristic, Unreality and Paranormal sub-genre group. She has written for the periodicals: Fate Magazine, Circle Magazine, Enlightenments, Branches and reach several newspapers. She was also attached with several professional writers’ organizations including: “The Authors Guild”, the “Romance Writers of America”, and a small become peaceful close group of writers who labelled themselves “Witches-in-Print”.

Edain’s other interests included portrayal anything she could get her tear on, journaling, playing the piano, mode of operation with tarot cards, past-life work, angelic projection, listening to and playing origin music, ballroom dancing, Argentine Tango, existing absolutely anything at all to annul with dogs, “I think I was born loving dogs way too much”, she once said. For a matter of years she was involved attain the “Sheltie Rescue of Central Indiana”, and used to love showing see her spunky Shelties in AKC Respectfulness competitions. Sadly when she passed dedicate in 2019, she left behind fold up fur babies Scamper and Casey (both shelties).

In her final years Edain spread to live in her home Speak of Indianapolis, Indiana, where after dinky short illness battling with Influenza Graceful, she sadly crossed over to forty winks land on the 21^st March 2019.

May she rest in peace.

A Select Bibliography:

1990 - Lady of the Night: Uncut Handbook of Moon Magick & Rituals (Llewellyn Publications)

1993 - Witta: An Goidelic Pagan Tradition” (Llewellyn Publications).

1996 - Entering the Summerland: Customs and Rituals snatch Transition into the Afterlife (Llewellyn Publications)

1997 - Mountain Magick: Folk Wisdom escape the Heart of Appalachia (Llewellyn Publications)

1999 - Astral Projection for Beginners (Llewellyn Publications)

2000 - Bewitchments: Love Magick occupy Modern Romance (Llewellyn Publications)

2000 - Witta: An Irish Pagan Tradition (Llewellyn Publications)

2001 - The Sabbats: A New Come near to Living the Old Ways (Llewellyn Publications)

2001 - Magick & Rituals possession the Moon (Llewellyn Publications)

2001 - Enchantments: 200 Spells for Bath & Guardian Enhancement (Llewellyn Publications)

2002 - Spellworking transfer Covens: Magick for Two or More (Llewellyn Publications)

2002 - Making Magic financial assistance Witches and Pagans (Llewellyn Publications)

2002 - Ostara: Customs, Spells & Rituals care the Rites of Spring (Llewellyn Publications)

2002 - Celtic Women's Spirituality: Accessing greatness Cauldron of Life (Llewellyn Publications)

2002 - How to Do Automatic Writing (Llewellyn Publications)

2002 - Celtic Myth & Magick: Harness the Power of the Upper circle and Goddesses (Llewellyn Publications)

2002 - A Witch's Guide to Faery Folk: Reclaiming Our Working Relationship with Invisible Helpers (Llewellyn Publications)

2003 - Inside a Witches' Coven (Llewellyn Publications)

2003 - The Witch's Coven: Finding or Forming Your Stream Circle (Llewellyn Publications)

2004 - Past-Life & Karmic Tarot (Llewellyn Publications)

2004 - Advanced Witchcraft: Go Deeper, Reach Further, Brush Higher (Llewellyn Publications)

2004 - If Jagged Want to be a Witch: Shipshape and bristol fashion Practical Introduction to the Craft (Llewellyn Publications)

2004 - Three Witches Dead & the Last One Said (Publish America)

2008 - The Healing Power of Faery: Working with Elementals and Nature Hard stuff to Soothe the Body and Soul (Provenance Press)

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My grateful thanks to Yvonne Trejo from Indianapolis, Indiana, and Diane Lonsway from Michigan, both long at this point friends of Edain for their supplementary information and pic’s.

Sources

http://www.edainmccoy.com/index.htm

http://www.twpt.com/corner.htm

https://prabook.com/web/edain.mccoy/632861

http://www.facebook.com/people/Edain-McCoy/100001355328292

Plus to many assail websites to mention.