Herman Slater
American priest
Herman Slater (1938 – July 9, 1992) was an American Wiccan high priest and occult bookstore proprietor and an editor, publisher, and author. He died of AIDS in 1992.
Early life
Slater was born in 1938 in a lower-middle-class Jewish neighborhood of New York City. Slater studied business administration at New York University, liberal arts at Hunter College and traffic management at the Traffic Management Institute in New York. He also completed a full course at the United States Navy Personnel School at United States Naval Training Center Bainbridge. From 1958 through 1969, Slater had several jobs in management, traffic expediting, and insurance claims investigation. 1969 marked the beginning of significant health related issues for him. He was later forced to quit work due to bone tuberculosis, which cost him a hip bone and three years for recuperation.
Career
Slater and Eddie Buczynski opened The Warlock Shoppe, the oldest witchcraft bookshop in Brooklyn, New York. Buczynski was the more magical and spiritual of the two and left the business side to Slater, who helped the shop, named as Magickal Childe, grow in profitability.
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