Roman holiday, pagan tradition
Monday, October 31st, 2005Halloween is the holiday that most associate with witches and pagans, but it's actually one of eight sabbats - or holidays - that pagans celebrate.
Archive for October, 2005
Halloween is the holiday that most associate with witches and pagans, but it's actually one of eight sabbats - or holidays - that pagans celebrate.
Wiccan fights for religious freedom
Monday, October 31st, 2005DERBY — Make-believe witches may worry most about not getting enough chocolate today. But a real-life witch has her hands full with more pressing matters. Alicia Folberth, a Wiccan high priestess, has persuaded the state Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities to review her complaint last June that she was fired, ...
Interview with a witch
Monday, October 31st, 2005Four years ago, OnMilwaukee.com posted the first "Interview with a Witch" segment, and because of its popularity, later created two more segments in the series. Now, the three articles are combined and updated with new information to provide a clear and honest glimpse into the life of a Milwaukee witch. ...
Halloween is time to dispel myths for pagans
Monday, October 31st, 2005SALISBURY -- When she saw the devil costume in a local store, frustration boiled inside her. Everything classic about the devil was there, said Morning Dove. There were horns and red makeup, but the pentacle -- the symbol of her Wiccan religion -- was like a slap in the face.
All fired up for our celebration of life
Monday, October 31st, 2005Do you believe the original meanings of many festivals have been lost? THE wheel of the year constantly turning has brought us once more to Hallowe'en, or Samhain (pronounced sow-in), as our Celtic ancestors would have known it.
Wiccans mark Halloween as start of new year
Monday, October 31st, 2005WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. (AP) — Halloween is an important time for Wiccans, practitioners of a fast-growing polytheistic religion who recognize the day as the start of their new year. Followers say the holiday, which they call Samhain, is when the veil between the living and dead is the thinnest. "It's a time ...
Catherine Sanders on Wicca
Monday, October 31st, 2005Wicca has become incredibly popular in the past ten years," one witch in Salem, Massachusetts, told Catherine Edwards Sanders, author of Wicca's Charm : Understanding the Spiritual Hunger Behind the Rise of Modern Witchcraft and Pagan Spirituality. In her book, Sanders tries to find out just how big Wicca ...
Truth or scare? Facts about Wiccan symbols
Monday, October 31st, 2005Wicca devotee Chris Jones wants to clear the air about the symbols of Samhain, or "the night where the veil between life and death is the thinnest."
Wiccans bewitched by nature
Monday, October 31st, 2005Allhallow's Eve, a night of ghosts and goblins kids in costumes, going door to door, yelling "trick or treat," pumpkins carved into jack-o'-lanterns - this is Halloween. Wicca is a polytheistic, nature-based religion. I worship a Goddess and a God or one of the many aspects thereof. Nature has male and female ...
Myths about witches: Pagan roots behind Halloween never were meant to be spooky
Monday, October 31st, 2005Like urban legends, the symbols of contemporary Halloween festivities make great theater, but bear little resemblance to their less fanciful origins. Malevolent ghosts, leering jack-o'-lanterns, witches plying the skies atop broomsticks -- when it comes to embodying authentic traditions, they're no more accurate than chocolate bunnies and plastic eggs in ...
Happy Samhain (Halloween)
Monday, October 31st, 2005Enjoy today, and tonight. Remember to light some candles for loved ones that have passed.
Under their spell
Sunday, October 30th, 2005Far below nature's magic show, I stood outside an old white house on a stretch of freshly cut grass, bemused at the sight of 12 modern witches moving across the lawn in scattered unison, occasionally smiling at one another as they passed. The youthful, contented expressions on their faces as ...
Germans turning to witchcraft and the occult
Sunday, October 30th, 2005NewKerala - India's Top Online Newspaper
Down with the devil
Sunday, October 30th, 2005FLINT - Halloween celebrations go back centuries, and they're bigger now in the United States than ever before. But don't expect moms such as Valerie Fontan of Flushing Township or Anne Bundy of Mt. Morris Township to join in. Fontan, 37, takes her three young children out of school on Halloween so ...
For some, this time of year means much more than Halloween
Sunday, October 30th, 2005The Journal Times Online
Internet Explorer
Friday, October 28th, 2005If any of you that use IE are visiting my site, I appologise about the side bar being messed up. I just took a look at it in IE and noticed that it was showing up at the bottom of the website. I wish someone would have let ...
AOL hit by IM virus
Friday, October 28th, 2005AOL’s instant messaging service has been hit by a virus which downloads spyware onto computers via a special website.read more | digg story
