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I read the book myself in the early 90s, and although I was disturbed by much of the content (the incest in particular), I found it to be a good read. Marion Zimmer Bradley undeniably had talent — she added an entirely new perspective to the Arthurian genre. However, little did I – or most other readers – know that the book described some of the goings on in her own household.

Of course, the Celtic legend that Bradley invents bears little resemblance to what we know of ancient Celtic religion, but then again how can we know more than an outline of what used to be a very rich spiritual tradition in a preliterate culture? Even in historical times, the remaining superstitions and legends of the Celtic fringe were enough to confound those who tried to make sense of them. I’ve been to one of the ancient pilgrimage roads myself, and the ancient grottoes and fairy mounds are still there, only now putatively dedicated to this or that Christian saint. Even today, some people still believe in the fairies, and attribute considerable powers to them.

So it isn’t entirely surprising that many women took Bradley’s creation and ran with it. For some time, feminist occult practices were popular, occurring even amongst some of my friends’ mothers and at least one of my teachers. The teacher, an apostate Irish nun with a penchant for strong drink and rough speech, led séances at a friend’s house back in the mid 80s. Being a boy at the time, I was not particularly interested in the practice, but I do remember that my friends and I had the vague sense that it was something we ought to avoid if at all possible.

Mark Greyland, it seems, had the same sense that it wasn’t something he wanted to be involved with, but the poor boy couldn’t avoid it, as his mother was the star of the show:

CS: How do you feel about the way your mother’s been regarded by many as a feminist and/or neo-pagan icon?

MG: What she did is to tell stories; long and hard enough she would act them out. When women started approaching her saying stuff like “you saved my life; now I don’t have to kill myself”, she started wearing new faces around them and more and more of them would gather around her.

Some of them were so angry they treated me like I was a crime for daring to be male around her. Others would give me the deer in the headlights look then look away.

There were times these unhappy women would gather around her by the dozens and I would stand back and watch her on stage and happy. I saw the rituals and the other weirdness close up and then at a distance. What they got out of it was something I did not understand, but I could see that the people were volatile and likely to blow up for invisible reasons.

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