LOUISE HUEBNER 'SEDUCTION THROUGH WITCHCRAFT'

In the occult fascinated year of 1969, Louise Huebner recorded and released an audio version of her successful book, ‘Seduction Through Witchcraft’.

The backing music to Huebner’s spoken word was written and performed by electronic music pioneers, Bebe and Louis Barron. The Barron’s are famous for writing the first electronic music for magnetic tape, and the first entirely electronic film score for the MGM movie ‘Forbidden Planet’ (1956).

Huebner was a psychic and astrologer who enjoyed brief fame as the ‘Official Witch of Los Angeles County’, a title she was given in 1968. Her career as a psychic began when she was only ten years old, when she began to give palm readings at a children's carnival. She later moved to Los Angeles and opened an office as an astrologer. Through the 1960s she gained local fame as a psychic and was a frequent guest on radio and television shows. She appeared regularly on a talk show on radio station KLAC for four years (1965-69). Occasionally she was invited to assist in crime detection.




On July 21, 1968, she was presented with a scroll naming her the Official Witch of Los Angeles County. At the time of the presentation, she performed a spell to ensure the continued sexual vitality of Los Angeles. The act had some immediate consequences. Some in the county were embarrassed when Huebner began to use the title to promote her writings on witchcraft and attempted to stop her. The effort ended after Huebner threatened to undo the spell. Second, members of the emerging neo-pagan Wiccan movement were somewhat upset by Huebner, who was not a part of their movement and tended to perpetuate what they felt were negative stereotypes of witches.

Huebner continued to operate as a public psychic and witch for several years. In 1970 she traveled to Salem, Massachusetts, where the mayor presented her with a broom. She produced one record album, two books, and a series of mini-books for Hallmark Cards. By the mid-1970s, however, she had largely retired from public life, and for a period she operated an antique shop in Pasadena, California.

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