WEST 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 ...
Wicca 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 ...
Allhallow'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 ...
Like 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 ...
Far 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 ...
FLINT - 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 ...
By Liz Chretien
newsletter@seacoastonline.com
EPPING - High Priestess Maria Kay Simms of Kensington spoke to teens Friday about what it really means to be Wiccan as part of Teen Read Week at the Harvey Mitchell Memorial Library.
Simms, an astrologer and author of books including "The Witch’s Circle," "Time for Magick," and "Moon ...
EAST HAVEN — Amid books of spells and sticks of incense, a wooden sign in the front window of SubRosa Magick invites shoppers to "Come in, sit for a spell," and owner Alicia Folberth hopes they will.
"With Halloween less than a week away, the 21st century is nearly five years old.
Yet in our age of the Internet and laser surgery and space travel and extreme makeovers, witches and witchcraft continue to fascinate. For instance, when I googled "witchcraft" on my PC, Google came back with 26,001 ...
by MATT NEWTON
It's Oct. 31, Halloween night. Children and adults dressed as monsters and movie stars are out trick-or-treating, or simply hanging out at a party. Maybe a few chaps are up catching a "Friday the 13th" marathon.
Elsewhere, in Williamsport, 16-year-old Amber Buechling is among many Wiccans and pagans alike ...
