'2 Witches Wed In Blood Ritual', The Indianapolis News, 8 December 1965

The Indianapolis News, Wednesday 8 December 1965, page 67. The witches' wedding as it reached the American Midwest, in Jim McLaughlin's People in the News column the day after the ceremony. Maxine Morris, 18, and Alexander Sanders, 39, married in Manchester in a white rope circle ringed with black candles, their arms bound and cut so the blood mixed, toasted afterwards in red wine. Sanders is quoted calling it the first wedding between two witches in 200 years, and insisting he is a witch, not a warlock. One of four reports of the wedding from outside Manchester held here, alongside the Stockton Record, the Daily Express and the Sydney Morning Herald. How to cite: Jim McLaughlin, '2 Witches Wed In Blood Ritual', The Indianapolis News, 8 December 1965, p. 67. Alexandrian Witchcraft Timeline & Archive.

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS 2 Witches Wed In Blood Ritual By Jim McLaughlin It was a witchy wedding. MAXINE MORRIS, 18, pretty and blonde, and ALEXANDER SANDERS, 39, both of whom claim to be witches, were married yesterday in an eerie ceremony in Manchester, England. Maxine wore a figure-clinging white silk robe - and, she says, nothing else. Incense burned as the couple stepped into a white rope circle surrounded by gleaming black candles. They knelt before an altar erected in the home of another witch. Two witches in hooded robes bound Maxine's and Alexander's arms together. Small cuts were made in their arms for the mixing of the blood. Then the bridegroom slipped a ring on the bride's finger and they were toasted with red wine. Sanders says their wedding is the first between two witches in 200 years. He insisted he is a witch, not a warlock, explaining that in old England the term witch referred to both male and female.