Born Orrell Alexander Carter in Birkenhead, England, Sanders grew up in a working-class family that eventually moved to Manchester. Much of his early life is shrouded in colorful, sometimes contradictory, stories he told later:
Before his rise in Wicca, he worked as a medium in local Spiritualist churches and studied ceremonial magic. The Rise of Alexandrian Wicca alex sanders
Sanders claimed he was initiated into witchcraft at age seven by his grandmother, Mary Bibby, who he said surprised him in her kitchen while she was performing a ritual. Born Orrell Alexander Carter in Birkenhead, England, Sanders