'Between The Bookends', Faunce Pendexter, Sun-Journal, 21 February 1970

Sun-Journal (Lewiston, Maine), Saturday 21 February 1970, page 18. Faunce Pendexter's books column announces the American edition of June Johns's King of the Witches, due from Coward-McCann on 16 March 1970. The note repeats the publisher's claims: Sanders, at forty, is 'the most powerful hereditary witch in all of Europe', rules some four thousand British witches and has founded 107 covens, after an initiation by his grandmother and 'an awesome bout with black witchcraft'. How to cite: Faunce Pendexter, 'Between The Bookends', Sun-Journal, 21 February 1970, p. 18. Alexandrian Witchcraft Timeline & Archive.

Between The Bookends By FAUNCE PENDEXTER Slight, soft-spoken and unassuming, Alex Sanders is the most powerful hereditary witch in all of Europe. At the age of forty, he now rules over some four thousand British witches - clergymen, housewives, doctors, businessmen, farmers, mechanics, and other men and women who regard witchcraft as a benevolent, and rewarding religion. “King of the Witches” by June Johns (Coward-McCann, March 16), is the incredible life story of Alex Sanders from his hair-raising initiation into witchcraft by his grandmother, through his awesome bout with black witchcraft, to the founding of a network of 107 covens throughout Europe. Miss Johns concentrates on the whys and wherefores of witchery - the tools, rituals, history, customs, modern-day witch. Through the personal story of Sanders, she examines the tenets of witchcraft, the tedious months of study and practice needed to become a witch, the many parallels between witchcraft and other religions, and the powers of clairvoyance, healing and fertility that all witches possess.