 I, Freya Aswynn was born in Holland
in November 1949 to a strict, Roman Catholic family. As a child I displayed natural psychic abilities, and this, combined with my reactions to
a hostile family environment and subjected to serious physical, mental as well as some sexual abuse, which was not recognized by the system as
it was then, prompted the official diagnosis that I was maladjusted'.
Entrusted to the so-called 'care' system, I was institutionalized for nine years. From the age of ten to the age of nineteen . My
intelligence, combined with a capacity for aggressive self-assertion, allowed me to emerge from this ordeal more or less psychologically
unscathed at the age of 19.
Deprived of any secondary education, I resorted to taking on cleaning work, until I met and married my first husband, George.
Somewhat older in years, George introduced me to the basics of philosophy (particularly the works of Friedrich Nietzsche) and classical
music, predominantly Richard Wagner. He also was the first person who ever spoke to me about the esoteric nature of the runes. Sadly, after two
years of marriage, George died of cancer; but he left me with a pension that, for the first time, gave me a measure of financial independence.
 Determined now to make good my lack of learning, I taught myself English and German by means of books and tapes.
At the same time, I took an interest in the development of my long-suppressed psychic gifts. I received my first paranormal training in a
spiritualist environ-ment, and from there progressed to the study of Rosicrucianism, Astrology, Cabbala and Thelema. At the age of 30, I felt
unable to progress further in Holland and left for England, where I was soon recognized by prominent magicians and witches as a natural.
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