Luisa Francia (born 2 August 1949 in Markt Grafing[1]) is a German author and filmmaker.
From the 1980s, she travelled to Africa, India and Nepal several times in search of magical traditions, folk healing and shamanism and wrote reports and books about her experiences (including Waiting for Blue Wonders, The African Dream[2]).
[3] In her numerous publications, often in guidebook style, she deals with the topics of witches, tarot, horoscope interpretation, goddesses, female shamanism and gives instructions on how to create magical and meditative rituals for life stages and for women's everyday lives.
Ariane Barth wrote about Francia's 1986 book Moon – Dance – Magic in Spiegel: "Anyone who reads her book about her creation of thirteen moon festivals will easily be seduced by the archaic power of this woman, seduced into a strange world in which modern intellectuality and magical ideas get on well together.
[6] Francia is the best-known representative of the witchcraft scene, which emerged in Germany in the 1980s at the intersection of neo-paganism and feminism.