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WASHINGTON, D.C., September 22, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — A veteran Washington Post religion columnist — and widow of its longtime editor — has revealed a lifelong interest in the occult.

Sally Quinn, 76, had written for the The Washington Post for 37 years when she began the “On Faith” blog in 2006. At the time, she described herself as an atheist. But after Quinn revealed in her autobiography, “Finding Magic”, that she had believed in, and dabbled in, occult practices all of her life, Breitbart’s John Nolte accused the Washington insider of lying.

“Not only were we not informed, we were misled and lied to,” he wrote.

In her book, Quinn describes playing with ouija boards, consulting astrologers, palm-readers, and tarot cards, using charms and even employing hexes, which she believes have harmed three people. She attributes her interest in the occult to having grown up in a wealthy household in the American South.

Quinn recently told USA Today that she watched servants practice voodoo and that her mother, too, indulged in the occult: “I saw my mother put hexes on two people,” she said. “They died. … They were two people who had hurt me very badly and she just said to both of them, ‘I hope you drop dead,’ and they did it.”  

Quinn also repeated her autobiographical confession that she too had hexed people:

“When I was in my late 20s and early 30s, there were three people who hurt me in some way, or [hurt] somebody I loved, and so I decided to put a hex on them. … Unfortunately, bad things happened to these three people over the period of five years.”

Quinn, a daughter of Lieutenant General William Wilson “Buffalo Bill” Quinn (1907-2000), was brought up a Presbyterian but said she lost her faith in God at age four when she saw her father’s photographs of the Dachau concentration camp.

When the family moved to Washington, D.C., Quinn became a Washington insider by virtue of her father’s high-level military career and her mother’s skill as a society hostess. In 1969, Quinn was hired by Benjamin Bradlee, then the managing editor of the The Washington Post, despite having “never written anything.” Quinn married the twice-divorced Bradlee in 1978.  

In Quinn’s recent interview with CBS This Morning, anchor Charlie Rose described himself as a “longtime friend of Sally.” It was also revealed on the show that Quinn had been, in 1973, the first woman to anchor a CBS morning show, and that she had been the most beloved wife of a Washington Post chief. Her membership in the elite of the mainstream media being thoroughly established, Quinn said her years of writing The Washington Post  “On Faith” blog made it “clear to me that all religion is magic.”

“Magic is whatever religion you might have,” she continued. “One is just as legitimate as another.”

Quinn, described on the show as being “meaner than a junkyard dog,” questioned the depth of Sarah Palin’s Christian beliefs and accused the Catholic Church of “a war against women” in its investigation of its women’s religious orders. However, her fiercest critics should admit that Quinn has showed a heroic commitment to the life of her disabled son, for whose diagnoses, therapy, and inclusion in ordinary life, she moved heaven and earth.

LifeSiteNews’ attempts to reach Quinn for an interview were unsuccessful.