The only coven practice I know a bit about is the case of rocket pioneer, Jack Parsons.
He was the big wheel behind the Pasadena coven, made famous by L. Ron Hubbard and his cult. I know Parson's occult ties because I read his bio, "*Sex and Rockets*" by John Carter.
The book says (page 183) Jack Parsons slept with his mother (like Jimmy Savile).
After reading so many Podesta e-mails and commentary about them I am thinking about mothers of boys who grow up to be santantists.
"Sex and Rockets" doesn't give a lot on the beliefs of Jack Parsons' mother but thinking about the Podesta brothers' mother, a witch, evidently I wonder now about Ruth Parsons. Was she a witch ad did she abuse her son at an early age to act out ritual incest for spells or other things?
The families just seem similar to me in weirdness.
Another boy whose mother probably abused him was Bill Clinton. Supposedly his autobiography tells of his mother behaving very un-motherly with him and crossing mother-son sexual boundries (perhaps with massages, I didn't read the bio .. just heard mention of his strange upbringing in an interview).
What I am thinking of these predatory men like the rapist, Bill Clinton, the coven leader and manipulator, Jack Parsons, infamous Savile and the evil Podesta brothers is .... perhaps there is a hidden hand in their vile behavior. Perhaps the invisible mother has even worst behavior in her closet that has yet to see the light of day.
Just opinion.... but something is strange and very familiar with these characters.
flyingcuttlefish ago
And another thing.... very recently I read (maybe on voat) that Hawthorne was an occultist or a Mason or both. Thinking about that makes me think his creepy story ( in Hawthorne Selected Tales and Sketches, pub. by Holt Rinehart & Winston) Young Goodman Brown.
On line version of the story [PDF]
https://tywls12ela.wikispaces.com/file/view/Nathaniel+Hawthorne+-+Young+Goodman+Brown.pdf
Maybe Young Goodman Brown is a true story, and/or maybe like Lovecraft he was trying to show 'his world' to the reader.
Very spooky.