![]() ![]() She was also impressed with the Quakers for their belief in pacifism, social equality, and education. From her early education in Greenwich Village, she developed a fascination with rituals, from traditional Maypole dances to Greek mythology to the rituals she witnessed in the Catholic Church as she began to explore different religions. Shortly after her birth, the family moved to New York, where she was raised within the city’s intellectual community. Her grandfather, Alfred Adler, was the renowned Viennese psychiatrist considered by many to be the father of Individual Psychology. Kurt Alfred Adler, was a psychiatrist and a self-professed atheist, while her mother, Freyda Nacque Adler, was a Jewish agnostic and a radical educator. Margot Susanna Adler was born on 16 April 1946, the only child of a non-religious family in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. She remains one of the most visible and available leaders of the Pagan community in North America, and continues to educate people about Wicca and witchcraft and other topics related to Paganism, and regularly travels to give lectures, workshops and rituals. ![]() Her 1979 study of contemporary nature religions, “Drawing Down the Moon”, is considered a seminal book on modern witchcraft and Neopaganism. Margot Adler is an influential American author, journalist, lecturer and Wiccan priestess. ![]()
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