Witch Visits Bay Area

Bay City Times, July 16, 1970

This article coincides with Gundella's visit to Delta College for an interview on Channel 19's show Face to Face with host Andy Rapp. A program which featured controversial guests such as the Grand Dragon of the Michigan Ku Klux Klan and a member of the White Panthers. She also had friends and former students on the faculty at the college.

There are also mentions of her Scottish witch ancestry and dying of the skin. In her case it was green due to her lineage of nature witches. She usually performed this way in her children shows as she told fairy and folk tales and other fantastical stories on witchcraft, charging $100. Adult shows were $50 and included card and wax readings.

There is also an important mention of her first joining the Au Sable coven, to which her mother was a long time member, in 1948 and later transferring to the Ann Arbor sect when she moved south to the Metro Detroit area. There is a mention of a member of the Ann Arbor coven travelling from Butler, New Jersey, which I had not seen mentioned before in my rather scant expose of the three so-called Michigan Gundella covens. She states that witches do not get involved as a group with social issues, though her mother's coven "they do things for each other - like catching a man."

While the article butchers her name, spelling Kuclo as Kutslow, it does provide some additional information on her then second husband John. He was of Ukrainian descent and spent some time in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II cleaning the showers which the Jews were gassed in In this article she provides that he taught her about Ukrainian witches and her usage of some of those chants in her witchcraft practice. John was a practicing Catholic and their children grew up in that faith but also practiced witchcraft as they grew older. He and Marion divorced sometime in the early 1980s.