Tag: wicca
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Review: Wicca, Plain & Simple
Wicca, Plain & Simple: The Only Book You’ll Ever Need by Leanna Greenaway Series: Plain & Simple Paperback: 144 pages Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing ISBN-10: 1571747710 ISBN-13: 978-1571747716 Product description: Greenaway takes a contemporary approach to Wicca, also known as witchcraft, and shows you how to use it as a healing and positive force. Practice…
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Angola ‘bans’ Islam
Angola ‘bans’ Islam, Muslims, becomes first country to do so source at: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/angola-first-country-to-ban-islam-muslims-mosques-demolished/1/326414.html I’m of two minds on this development. On the one hand, radical Islamists are an obvious danger to civilization. Their inflexible attitude toward other cultures and belief systems has them clashing, often violently, with non-Muslims. Having said that, I hate to see…
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Review: Mrs. B’s Guide to Household Witchery
Mrs. B’s Guide to Household Witchery: Everyday Magic, Spells, and Recipes by Kris Bradley Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: Weiser Books ISBN-10: 1578635152 ISBN-13: 978-1578635153 (Barry’s score 5 out of 5 stars) My thoughts: Let me admit to my bias right away, I loved Mrs. B’s blog “Confessions of a Pagan Soccer Mom”. I would frequently…
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Witches to Open New Museum in Salem, Massachusetts
Wiccan Author and Priest Don Lewis discovers that Salem is the perfect place to open the World of Witches Museum. A museum dedicated to telling the history of magic and witchcraft from a Witches point of view. Salem, MA (PRWEB) April 15, 2010 — Witches opening a new museum in Salem, Massachusetts, aka The…
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WORLDmag.com | Community | Blog Archive | The Episcopal Church, Wiccans, and the Divine Feminine
I suppose nothing The Episcopal Church does should shock me any more. Nonetheless, it does. In this holiest of Christian seasons, on the evening before Passion Sunday, the Cathedral of All Souls Episcopal Church in Asheville, N.C., hosted an event in its parish hall for an organization called The Mother Grove Goddess Temple. The…
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Judge: Wiccan inmates have no right to sweat lodges, raw meat – Thursday, March 25, 2010 | 12:09 p.m. – Las Vegas Sun
CARSON CITY — A federal judge has ruled that prison inmates have no right to sweat lodges and raw meat to practice the Wiccan religion. U.S. District Judge Philip Pro rejected the civil rights suit of Scott Fletcher, who claimed the federal law on religious rights of prisoners required the prison to provide such…
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Woman stabs man with Wicca dagger : News : KVII
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – Police say a woman who invited a man to join her in a Wiccan celebration of spring stabbed him multiple times near a popular hiking trail east of Albuquerque, then told other hikers she’d been raped. But Police Chief Ray Schultz says the evidence didn’t add up, and the man…
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Witchcraft on Indias school curriculum – Telegraph
Primary school children in India will learn about witchcraft in the classroom as part of an effort to dispell superstitions and stop deadly witch-hunts. Last Updated: 6:55AM GMT 24 Nov 2008 Many tribal communities in the country believe in witches and their ability to cause harm to people, animals and the harvest. About 750 people,…
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Witches of Cornwall
Over the centuries, many in the British Isles have appealed to witches in times of need–to cure a toothache, concoct a love potion, or curse a neighbor. Witchcraft, the rituals of a number of pagan belief systems, was thought to offer control of the world through rites and incantations. Common as it has been over…
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