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{{Short description|Book by Anton Szandor LaVey}}
{{Infobox book
| name          = The Satanic Witch
| title_orig    = The Compleat Witch
| translator    =
| image         = Image:TheCompleatWitch.jpg
| caption       = Cover of the first edition
| author        = [[Anton LaVey]]
| illustrator   = 
| cover_artist  = 
| country       = United States
| language      = English 
| series        =
| subject       = [[Greater and lesser magic#Lesser magic|Lesser magic]], [[witchcraft]]
| publisher     = [[Dodd, Mead & Company]] (1971)<br>[[Lancer Books]] (1972)<br>[[Feral House]] (1989, 2003–present)
| release_date  = 1971
| media_type    = Print ([[Hardcover]] & [[Paperback]])
| pages         = 284
| isbn          = 978-0922915842
| followed_by   = 
}}

'''''The Satanic Witch''''' is a book by [[Anton LaVey]], currently published by [[Feral House]]. The book is a treatise on [[Greater and lesser magic#Lesser magic|lesser magic]], a system of [[Psychological manipulation|manipulation]] by means of [[applied psychology]] and [[glamour (presentation)|glamour]] (or [[Deception|"wile and guile"]]) to bend an individual or situation to one's will.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mortensen |first1=William |last2=Dunham |first2=George |title=The Command to Look: A Master Photographer's Method for Controlling the Human Gaze |date=21 October 2014 |publisher=Feral House |isbn=978-1-62731-001-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O1OmoAEACAAJ |language=en |editor=Michael Moynihan |page=203}}</ref> The book is introduced as an extension of LaVey's witches workshops which were conducted prior to the founding of the Church.<ref name="Devil's Party">{{cite book |last1=Faxneld |first1=Per |last2=Petersen |first2=Jesper Aa |title=The Devil's Party: Satanism in Modernity |date=2013 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-977923-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C4hNEAAAQBAJ |language=en |pages=85–86}}</ref> The book presents its methods as a tool of the [[feminine]], and how the female can enchant and manipulate men. 

The book was first published as '''''The Compleat Witch, or What to Do When Virtue Fails''''', in 1971 by [[Dodd, Mead & Company]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lewis |first1=James R. |title=Satanism Today |date=2001 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-57607-292-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LxCwyChmJrAC |language=en |page=147}}</ref> The first paperback edition was released by [[Lancer Books]] in 1972. It was republished by Feral House in 1989 with an introduction by [[Zeena LaVey]], wherein it was retitled ''The Satanic Witch''; and again in 2003 with a new introduction by [[Peggy Nadramia]] and [[afterword]] by [[Blanche Barton]]. The book concludes with a bibliography of over 170 books on topics of psychology, anthropology, sociology, biology and volumes on sexuality and body language.<ref name="Devil's Party" /> The publisher describes the book as "...undiluted Gypsy lore regarding the forbidden knowledge of seduction and manipulation."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://feralhouse.com/the-satanic-witch/|title = The Satanic Witch}}</ref> 

==Editions==
* LaVey, Anton Szandor. ''The Satanic Witch''. (2003 2nd ed. 1st printing), Feral House. {{ISBN|0-922915-84-9}}

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.churchofsatan.com/the-compleat-story-of-the-compleat-witch/ The Compleat Story of ''The Compleat Witch'']
* [http://www.dpjs.co.uk/counter/women.html "Anton LaVey and Women - Apologetics"] by [[Vexen Crabtree]] from "A Defence Of Common Attacks on Satanism"

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[[Category:Neopagan witchcraft]]
[[Category:Works by Anton LaVey]]
[[Category:Criticism of feminism]]
[[Category:Feral House books]]
[[Category:Dodd, Mead & Co. books]]
[[Category:Church of Satan]]
[[Category:Sex manuals]]

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