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Magical correspondences and social values
Monday, June 23rd, 2008If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Dr Brendan Cathbad Myers is the author of several books on radical Paganism and Druidry, his latest, The Other Side of Virtue: Where Our Virtues Come From, What They Really Mean, and Where They Might Be Taking Us, will be [...]
News: 17th century withcraft ritual remains uncovered
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Archaeologists have recently uncovered evidence of 17th century rituals involving swans and other birds in the Cornish valley near Truro. Thirty-five pits have been excavated since 2003, containing swan pelts, dead magpies, unhatched eggs, quartz pebbles, human hair and part of an iron cauldron.
The finds have been dated to the 1640s, a period [...]
News: Mediums, psychics and healers could face prosecution
Saturday, April 19th, 2008British Parliament is set to debate a measures which may result in a change in law, meaning mediums, psychics and healers could face prosecution if they cannot prove their claims.
The Fraudulent Mediums Act (which replaced the 1735 Witchcraft Act) would be replaced with the new Consumer Protection Regulations and promises of interaction with the dead [...]
News: Discrimination against a Vancouver Pagan involved in BDSM
Thursday, April 10th, 2008Vancouver Pagan Peter Hayes claims he was discriminated against when an officer refused to grant him the permit he needed to get a chauffeur’s job.
Hayes maintained, Barker took him to a small room, asked why he was wearing black clothes and told him he was being denied the permit because the department had a record [...]
News: Miss Toronto Tourism discriminates against Wiccans
Monday, January 28th, 2008Winner of the Miss Canada Plus Pageant last year, Stephanie Conover was recently invited to judge for the Miss Toronto Tourism pageant happening on Februrary 2nd.
“I said I’d definitely be there,” Conover told the Star yesterday.
“Then, last week, on Monday, they asked me for a biography. I told them everything I do, how I’m an [...]
News: Group calls for witches to be pardoned
Monday, January 21st, 2008A Scottish group specializing in the paranormal, Full Moon Investigations, is working to obtain posthumous pardons for 4,000 people prosecuted, tortured and executed for witchcraft.
It began with a petition to pardon Helen Duncan, born at Callander, Perthshire. Arrested in 1994, Duncan was sentenced to nine months in prison under the Witchcraft Act of 1735, [...]
100 Years of Fringe Religion: Thelema, Discordianism, Wicca, Satanism and…Atheism?
Monday, November 5th, 2007I was putting together a timeline for another essay when something occurred to me. Various religions that started as fringe have grown and expanded over the years, many becoming legitimate in the eyes of the mainstream (or at least, approaching legitimacy), but somewhere along the line we seem to have run out of steam.