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Witches' Booksigning Ignites Protest

Spellbooks Promptly Sell Out

WAYNESVILLE, NC - How often does anybody protest a booksigning? But when the Waynesville Mountaineer reported our impending "return to Haywood" County to sign books and perform divinations next to the courthouse where we'd begun the campaign to overturn North Carolina's anti-divination law, a conservative Christian congregation vowed to protest. (This was Waynesville, after all, where in May 2005 a group of church members sued their pastor after he kicked them out for voting for John Kerry.)

Amid heavy rains, only the congregation's pastor showed up to protest our Oct. 7 event at Osondu Booksellers. But that was enough to put us -- and Osondu -- on the WLOS-13 evening news and the front page of the Mountaineer. Over the next few days, Osondu sold out of The Goodly Spellbook.

• "Book signing attracts lone protester," by Vicki Hyatt, Waynesville Mountaineer, Monday Oct. 10, 2005, pg. 1A
• "Coven leaders return to Haywood," Waynesville Mountaineer, Friday Sept. 23, 2005
• E-mail to Coven Oldenwilde from Margaret Osondu, owner of Osondu Booksellers

Waynesville Mountaineer, Monday Oct. 10, 2005

Waynesville Mountaineer, Friday Sept. 23, 2005

From Margaret Osondu

Hello Lady Passion:

We have sold out of your book and will order more!
So, do you want to come back to Waynesville? Maybe in Feb. and do a romance spell evening?
I think maybe you put a spell of good fortune on us because for every negative call we have received I think three more people are coming in and buying books!

Thanks for coming.
Margaret Osondu, [owmer] Osondu Booksellers, Wayneswille, NC

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