M. Macha NightMare
About
M. Macha NightMare is the public Craft name for Aline O'Brien. She is a "Witch at Large" from California.
Interviews
2012. "A Witch at Large: The Broomstick Adventures of M. Macha NightMare," with Michael Night Sky. Witches & Pagans No.25 ([2012])
2010. "TWPT Talks to M. Macha Nightmare." The Wiccan/Pagan Times. https://web.archive.org/web/20101128222612/http://www.twpt.com/cherryhillseminary.htm
2009. "Have Broom Will Travel" Interview with M. Macha Nightmare By Christopher Blackwell. ACTION (Imbolc 2008), article 3. https://web.archive.org/web/20101212224729/http://aren.org/newsletter/2009-imbolc/action.php?num=3
2009. "Living the Wiccan Life." An interview from CorrellianTV by Rev. Don Lewis-Highcorrell, February 2009. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9euuvhqxqtw
2008. “A Real Witch,” on Web Drifter Episode #19, with Martin Sargent, Modesto, CA, September 2008? https://youtu.be/d0CTYRVhyZg?si=Ydx6xSG5sLNQav0E
2005. "Witchy Woman," by David Templeton in Pacific Sun, v.43, no.43 (October 28-November 3, 2005): p.13-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20060328143928/https://pacificsun.com/witch.html#top
2005. “Finding My Religion: NeoPagan Witch on Celebrating the Dean and Casting Spells," interview by David Ian Miller, SF Gate, San Francisco, October 31, 2005. https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/FINDING-MY-RELIGION-Neo-pagan-witch-on-3236912.php
2004. "Interview: Prolific Pagans and Authors Speak," Copper Moon e-zine, August 5, 2004. https://web.archive.org/web/20040819140337fw_/http://gothic-rain.com/twnin.htm
2004. "Women in Leadership in Faith: Voices of Hope and Healing in a Troubled World, Marin County, CA," 2002-03 study by Roberta Swan. Published in the collection: Swan, Roberta. Hope and Healing in a Troubled World: Stories of Women Faith Leaders. (New York: iUniverse, Inc., 2004). [9780595311095]
2003. Unscrewed with Martin Sargent. Episode 78, "Witches, Cabbies, and Britney -- Oh My!" Recorded November 14, 2003 in front of a live audience for TechTV. Broadcast December 3, 2003. See DVD transferred from VHS tape in MS/150/25
2002. "About Witchcraft and the Web on Talking Stick: Programming for the Earth Spiritual Community," recorded October 18, 2001 by host Sandy Johnson, online January 9, 2002. https://web.archive.org/web/20020826041454/http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=4074
2001. "The Author's Corner. The Pagan Book of Living and Dying: TWPT Talks to M Macha NightMare," with iMajicka. https://web.archive.org/web/20010628024409/http://www.twpt.com/nightmare.htm
2000. "An Interview with Author Macha NightMare", Pagan Student Association, Ohio State University, Spring Quarter 2000, https://web.archive.org/web/20010628024409/http://www.twpt.com/nightmare.htm
1999. "Night Mare Interview: An Interview with M Macha Nightmare," Mystic Journeys online 'zine, of Magical Cauldron, November/December 1999. https://web.archive.org/web/20000610104206/http://www.magickalcauldron.com/MJ/novdec/macha.htm
1999. Internvew by Susan Arbetter, WAMC public radio, Albany, NY, October 1999
1999. Salem Evening News, September 22 and 27, 1999
1999. The Net Cafe, PBS interview, July 1999. https://archive.org/details/nc439_new_age_websites
1999. Fox 40 Network News, interview with Michelle Hofland, with scene from a ritual celebrating the Feast of Bridhe, Friday, February 12, 1999. See DVD transfer from VHS in MS/150/25
Publications
Articles
"Pagan Religions on the Web," on Patheos, August 18, 2009. https://www.patheos.com/resources/additional-resources/2009/08/pagan-religions-on-the-web
Introductions, Forewords, etc.
Janet Farrar and Gavin Bone. Lifting the Veil: A witches' Guide to Trance-Prophecy, Drawing Down the Moon, and Ecstatic Ritual. Foreword by M. Macha NightMare. Portland, OR: Acorn Guild Press, 2016. See NAMOSRL BF1352 .F37 2016
Book Chapters
Books
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
[Advertisement]: "Glenn Turner aka Ancient Ways presents PantheaCon 2002", 2002
Overview and registration form for the 8th annual PantheaCon held at the Double Tree Hotle in San Jose, CA, February 15-18, 2002
Ancient Ways Festival Panel, Harbin Springs, California, May 5-9, 1993 [Video]
Chas S. Clifton Vertical File
Goddesses Alive!: A Ritual with Masks [PDF]
Goddesses Alive! A Ritual with Masks/ Program, Parliament of the World’s Religions, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 2015 [PDF]
Item 3: Unscrewed with Martin Sargent. Episode 78, "Witches, Cabbies, and Britney -- Oh My!" Recorded November 14, 2003 in front of a live audience for TechTV. Broadcast December 3, 2003. (25 min.), 2003
Obsolete Media: Cassettes, VHS tapes; name badges (lanyards) from various festivals
Item 4. Reclaiming Benefit: 20 years of Craft in the Bay area. [San Rafael, CA :] [M. Macha NightMare], 1990/ (approximately 53 min., 30 sec.). VHS, 1990
Item 5: [Compilation of news footage dealing with witchcraft in Northern California] compiled by M. Macha NightMare, 1997 - 1999
Lifting the Veil: A Witches' Guide to Trance-Prophesy, Drawing Down the Moon, and Ecstatic Ritual / Janet Farrar & Gavin Bone, foreword by M. Macha NightMare [Aline O'Brien]. Portland, Oregon: Acorn Guild Press, 2016
"Written to fill an existing gap in the current available knowledge on trance, prophecy, deity-possession, and mediumship withing the neo-Pagan and Wiccan communities."--Page 4 of cover
M. Macha NightMare Collection
Obsolete Media: Cassettes, VHS tapes; name badges (lanyards) from various festivals
NAMOSRL Browsing Collection
Items form the personal library of M. Macha MightMare