"Fam-trad" is short for family-traditional and refers to a coven that has roots in the underground practice of witchcraft, before it became legal, instead of in the neopagan movement, which I am part of and which began in the 1960s. Pagans not born into the faith sometimes look a little wistfully through the windows of fam-trad life, longing for historical connection with the folk cultures that sustain us. Occasionally, the need for validation manifests in bouts of flagrant posing: My grandmother was Aleister Crowley's acolyte. Or fam-trad witches may throw their weight around: My grandmother was introducing me to the fairy folk when you were in Sunday school. For the most part, as the pagan community becomes multigenerational, these fights become relegated to the upper regions of the blogosphere.