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unusual facts about coven



Alex Bag

Coven Services is Bag's imaginary PR firm and advertising agency, serving clients such as Monsanto Company, Bechtel, and AOL Time Warner.

Bill Brittain

William E. "Bill" Brittain (December 16, 1930 in Rochester, New York – December 16, 2011) was an American author most famous for his writings of the fictional New England village of Coven Tree, including The Wish Giver, a Newbery Honor Book.

Blue Star Wicca

Tzipora Klein (née Katz), who had joined the coven in 1977, and with her then-husband Kenny Klein, left on a folk music tour after the 1983 release of their cassette Moon Hooves in the Sand, which contained Blue Star liturgical music.

Bricket Wood coven

Many important and influential figures in Wicca were members of the coven, including Dafo, Doreen Valiente, Jack Bracelin, Frederic Lamond, Dayonis, Eleanor Bone and Lois Bourne.

Coven Celeste

Since Heather Botting's initiation by Turner in 1966, the coven has remained matrilineal, with the Bottings' granddaughters Phaydra and Ariadne Gagnon inheriting the athame as high priestesses.

The seed of Coven Celeste was planted in the summer of 1966 when Heather Botting met her prospective husband's maternal grandmother, Lysbeth Turner (née Rendle) (1896-1968), the younger sister of Thomas Edward Rendle VC, the first British infantryman to receive the Victoria Cross in the First World War.

Denali Borough, Alaska

In the Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer, the Denali vampire coven (consisiting of Tanya, Kate, Irina, Eleazar and Carmen and later Garrett) lives in Denali because of the lack of sunlight.

Eleanor Bone

Bone was a close confidant of Gardner's initiator Dafo, and she reported that the New Forest coven was a hereditary coven that followed the old ways of the Hampshire region, and that they traced their origins to the time of the death of King William Rufus in the Norman era.

Holy Innocents' Cemetery

In Anne Rice's The Vampire Lestat, Armand's coven of vampires resides in the Cimetière des Innocents when Lestat first encounters them, and they remain there until shortly before the Cemetery is finally destroyed.

Lois Bourne

She was a High Priestess of the first Wiccan coven started by Gerald Gardner, which was based in Bricket Wood in Hertfordshire and says she was friends with both Gardner, and Aldous Huxley.

Long Meg and Her Daughters

The most famous of the many legends that surround the stones is that they were once a coven of witches who were turned to stone by a wizard from Scotland named Michael Scot.

Madeline Davis

She is a founding member of Spiderwoman Coven, an all women's Wiccan spiritual circle, and has performed Wiccan rituals for local spiritual events.

Nancy Holder

Other books by Nancy Holder (and Debbie Viguié) include the "Wicked" series, about a family feud between a coven of witches called the Cahors and a coven of warlocks called the Devereux.

Richard Horie

Now focusing solely on coloring, the two colored Mike Deodato Jr.'s pencils and inks for a couple of issues of Chaos! Comics' Lady Death, as well as Coven and Jada Pinkett Smith's Menace for Awesome, before coming to work almost-exclusively for DC Comics in December, 1998.

Tempestarii

John Fian and his alleged coven of witches were accused of raising a sea storm to drown James VI and Queen Anne on their way from Denmark.

The Brotherhood of Satan

A local coven of elderly witches have been taking the children and leading them to worship Satan in a plot to use their bodies as receptacles for their own souls.

The Magical Delights of Stevie Nicks

Shortly after being sheltered in the Coven, Marie Laveau (Angela Bassett) steals a newborn baby from a hospital in the middle of the night—after being reminded of an old agreement with dark forces in the form of Papa Legba (Lance Reddick).

The Sacred Taking

She resists taking the ipecac, believing she was doing the right thing for the coven.

The Vampire Armand

With Lestat still in slumber after his adventures in Memnoch the Devil, the vampire coven is united around the "brat prince" (a nickname for Lestat given by Marius), and the vampire David Talbot takes the opportunity to request that Armand tell David his life story.


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