Who created Feri?
Victor Anderson (1917-2001) is credited with being the main advocate of a Feri approach, but I don’t think he’d admit to being the creator, but rather the transmitter of knowledge that he’d received himself. Victor was perpetuating an approach, but was not dogmatic about specific lore he was taught.– Niklas Gander (TJ), phone conversation There has been much discussion about where Feri originated. Several versions of the story have been circulated: 1. that Victor was initiated individually by an old woman of either Gypsy or African stock. This happened in 1926 or 1927 when Victor was living in either New Mexico, Ashland, Oregon or Bend, Oregon (accounts differ); 2. that Victor was initiated and given the Mysteries in 1929 by Harpy Coven in Oregon, and that this coven was formed by migrants from Missouri, Mississippi, and Alabama. Accounts of Victor’s original teachers differ. Gwydion Pendderwen describes some of Victor’s teachers in the first (hardback) edition of Thorns of the Bloodr
