Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, White Witch, Rock Writer, Fantasy Author, and Lover of Jim Morrison – Obituary
- by Telegraph Obituaries
SHE SAID THAT SPARKS LITERALLY FLEW WHEN THEY MET, AND IN LATER YEARS SHE CLASHED WITH THE ESTATE OF HER LOVE RIVAL PAMELA COURSON
Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, who has died aged 75, was a Brooklyn girl who grew up to become a Celtic white witch, rock journalist and author of fantasy novels; she also claimed to be the widow of Jim Morrison, The Doors’ frontman, having “married” him in a “handfasting” ceremony in 1970.
She later published Strange Days: My Life With and Without Jim Morrison (1992), a Mills and Boon-style account of their relationship which began in 1969 when Patricia Kennely (she added the “a” later) interviewed the star for Jazz & Pop magazine. When they shook hands, she claimed, there was “a visible shower of bright blue sparks flying in all directions." But it was more than mere love at first sight: “I know karma when I see it.”
Which was hardly surprising, as she claimed to be a “witch," “born the heir of intergalactic royalty abandoned by gipsies and raised by wolves." Morrison, she recalled, was “into Native American Indian spirituality, which wasn’t much different than Celtic paganism. And when he realized that Celtic paganism was part of his own Scot heritage, he delved in.”
