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Becoming the Enchanter: A Journey to the Heart of the Celtic Mysteries

Lyn Webster Wilde

At the age of thirty-one, Lyn Webster was leading an average if slightly numbed existence, assuaging the grief over her fiancé's death with alcohol and carrying on her busy career as a producer for British television. One day in Liverpool, however, all of this changed when she unleashed her fury upon a group of mischievous boys and a coworker recognized her as one of her own kind, a woman warrior.

Thus began Lyn's journey into a magical realm deeply rooted in Celtic myth and tradition, an underground network of sacred practitioners who maintained the secrets of the old wisdom while leading normal lives in the everyday world.

Becoming the Enchanteris an artfully told work of narrative nonfiction that reads like a fantastical novel, complete with magical interludes and a fast-moving plot that builds as Lyn pursues the mystery of the riddle given to her by a godmother figure, Eleanor, on her deathbed.

As the author illustrates, the tradition of which she became a part dates back to the Neolithic era and contains a deep knowledge not unlike that which Carlos Castaneda encountered in his experiences with the Yaqui Indians.

GenresMythology, Celtic

303 pages, 4 editions

English edition · First published 2002 by J.P. Tarcher/Putnam · ISBN 9781585421824

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Editions

4 editions

English

  • Becoming the Enchanter: A Journey to the Heart of the Celtic Mysteries · J.P. Tarcher/Putnam · 2002 · ISBN 9781585421824 This page
  • Becoming the Enchanter: The Extraordinary True Story of One Woman's Magical Celtic Journey · Ebury Digital · 2011 · ISBN 9781446489307
  • Becoming the Enchanter: The Extraordinary True Story of One Woman's Magical Celtic Journey · Rider · 2003 · ISBN 9780712662291
  • Becoming The Enchanter · Penguin Group (usa) · 2002 · ISBN 9780641606816

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