The Witches' Runes: History, Creation, and Use

Josephine Winter has been a witch of some flavour for most of her life, beginning in Norse-inspired Heathenry and later the Alexandrian tradition of Wicca. She holds degrees in education, literature, and the arts. Over the last few decades, she has been a regular volunteer and organiser at various Pagan and witchy events around Australia. More recently, she became a cofounder of Lepus Lumen, a teaching collective of covens, outercourts, and solo practitioners. She lives in country Victoria, in Australia's leafy southeast.

Jason Tremain is an Australian musician, teacher, and writer whose work explores the meeting points of music, ritual, and animism. An initiate of Alexandrian Witchcraft, he has taught and presented on witchcraft, occult traditions, and musicology, bringing together research and lived practice. His writing reflects a deep interest in creativity, tradition, and the ways people find meaning in the natural world.

Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki (1929-2026) was one of the most respected and experienced esoteric practitioners at work in the British Isles. She was born and lived in Channel Island of Jersey off the coast of France. She was trained in the Fraternity of the Inner Light and worked as a Cosmic Mediator with Walter Ernest, the Grand Maistre of British Occultism. Dolores was a third degree adept and Qabbalist.

She not only taught the Craft but was also the director of the Servants of the Light, a Hermetic order descended from Dion Fortune's Society of the Inner Light. She traveled extensively, teaching a wide range of occult subjects to pupils in both the UK and United States.