The Satanic Witch is a book by Anton LaVey. It is a how-to guide for the manipulation and seduction of men by women, collecting a body of advice on lesser magic. A book is a collection of leaves of paper, parchment or other material, bound together along one edge within covers. ... Anton Szandor LaVey (11 April 1930 – 29 October 1997), was the founder and High Priest of the Church of Satan, author of The Satanic Bible, and creator of the religion known as Satanism. ... A how-to is an informal, often short, description of how to accomplish some specific task. ... Anatomy In the context of joints, manipulation is the forceful, passive movement of a joint beyond its active range of motion. ... Seduction is the process of deliberately enticing another person into an act (see motivation). ...

It was first published by Dodd, Mead, in 1971 as The Compleat Witch. It was republished by Feral House in 1989 with an introduction by Zeena LaVey (ISBN 0922915008); and again in 2003 with a new introduction by Peggy Nadramia and afterword by Blanche Barton (ISBN 0922915849). 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... Zeena Schreck is a minor celebrity among organized satanists, being the daughter of Anton Szandor LaVey (founder of the Church of Satan in 1965), also having been the High Priestess of the Temple of Set for a little over a month in 2002 until she left - note that at the... An afterword is a literary device that is often found at the end of a piece of literature. ...

One of the most important concepts Dr. LaVey introduced in The Satanic Witch was the LaVey Synthesizer Clock, an improved form of somatotyping incorporating a fourth basic type to the three already in common use (by addition of the "pure feminine" type, opposite to the "pure masculine" or mesomorphic type). The LaVey Synthesizer Clock postulates that all persons occupy a set body and personality type, placed along varying degrees of the four types proposed ("clock position"), and that ideal friends and lovers will represent the opposite personality/body type by position on the LaVey Synthesizer Clock.

Contents

• Introduction by Peggy Nadramia
• Prologue
  • The Test of the Thirteen Factors

1. Are You a Witch?

• • The Myth of the "White Witch"
  • The Drug Scene
  • The Married Witch versus the Single Witch Choose an Image
  • "Natural" versus Acquired Ability

2. Knowing Yourself and Others

• • The Real You
  • The LaVey Personality Synthesizer
  • Predominantly Masculine Types in Female Bodies and Vice-Versa
  • Temperament
  • Skin and Flesh Tone
  • General Proportions
  • Sexual Proclivities
  • Sense of Humor
  • Alcohol and Drug Use
  • Professions and Occupations
  • Sports, Athletics, Aches and Pains
  • Are You Passive or Dominant by Nature?
  • The Power of Certain Names
  • His Name
  • The Law of the Attraction of Opposites
  • By His Automobile Ye Shall Know Him
  • Sleep Patterns ... and Other Bedroom Activities

3. E.S.P.: Extra Sensual Projection

• • The Pupils of His Eyes as a Measurement for Success
  • Sound
  • On the Importance of Odors
  • Taste
  • Touch

4. Looks Mean Everything The term pupil can also mean student. ...

• • You Don't Have to Be Ugly
  • Make-up: Projective Coloration
  • Your Fur
  • Your Undercoat
  • The Law of the Forbidden
  • Secrets of Indecent Exposure

5. Fashion: The Witch's Greatest Friend, The Witch: Fashion's Worst Enemy

• • Cartoon Cuties
  • Stockings versus Panty Hose
  • The High Heel
  • On Prostitutes and Pentagrams
  • Accessories
  • Color Clues for Witches

6. Bitchcraft

• • Taking Advantage of Men Who Think They're Taking Advantage of you
  • How and When to Lie
  • Learn to Be Stupid
  • How to Charm a Married Man
  • Giving In
  • The Folly in Trying to Charm a Self-Aware Homosexual
  • The Lesbian Witch
  • Gesture, Mannerisms, Toilet Habits and Assorted Ploys

7. Means of Divination

• • How to Tell Fortunes with No Previous Experience
  • "Cold Reading" and "Casing the Mark"
  • Prophesy

8. Ceremonial Magic

• • Sex Magic without Sanctimony
  • Casting a Spell
  • How to Protect Yourself from Another Witch's Curse
  • How to Become a Succubus and Attack the Man of your Choice While He Sleeps
  • On Choosing a Familiar or a Demon

9. Public Relations for Witches A bracket carved as a winged succubus on the outside of an English inn, suggesting that a brothel could have been found inside. ...

• • How to Break the news
• Select Bibliography
• Afterword by Blanche Barton
• The endpapers display the LaVey Personality Synthesizer Clock

External links

• Excerpts and updates on The Satanic Witch (http://www.satanic-kindred.org/witch.htm)
• "Anton LaVey and Women - Apologetics" (http://www.dpjs.co.uk/counter/women.html) by Vexen Crabtree from "A Defence Of Common Attacks on Satanism"
• Reviews of The Satanic Witch (http://book-reviews.iwantitcheap.com/reviews12714_0922915849/)
• The Satanic Witch reviewed (http://fcos.us/books2.html) by Lillee C. Allee of First Church of Satan
• "Satanic Witchery" (http://www.bewitchingbrimstone.com/writings/witchery.html), an original essay by Abby Brimstone