Pagan/Wiccan News Archives

Title: REAL WITCHES PRACTICE SAMHAIN: WICCA ON THE RISE IN U.S. Patti Wigington is a soccer mom.

There is an old saying, "Ignorance is bliss." Most people have no idea about the origins and true meaning of Halloween.

Share + Oct 30, 2009 6:42 pm US/Eastern More than a few pint-sized witches will be ringing your doorbell tomorrow night looking for treats, but real witches are celebrating their New Year called Samhain.

All Hallows' Eve along with All Saints Day and All Souls Day, or "Days of the Dead," is celebrated October 31 and November 1 and November 2. This three day "Hallowtide" is a special time when Catholics pray for the dead.

Title: LEEDS WITCH TALKS PAGANISM Debra Scott is a 51-year-old witch and organiser of the Leodis Pagan Circle.

Owners of a Rossville-based witch school say narrow minds and narrower bandwidth led to their recent decision to move the operation to Salem, Mass.

Title: A WICCAN HALLOWEEN The Fly-by-Night store is not your typical gift shop. The proprietor, Psyche North Torok, is a Wiccan high priestess and she has been providing Clintonville with magical resources since 1995.

Title: PAGAN GROUP TO OBSERVE SAMHAIN While most students are dressing in their most clever, sexy or hilarious costumes Saturday night, Sean Manning will spend a somber evening remembering the loved ones he has lost.

Adorable costumes aside, Halloween has a rich-- and spooky-- history. Did you ever wonder how Halloween got its start? Its origins are Celtic, which explains why it is traditionally celebrated in Britain, Ireland, Canada and the United States.

Good news for all you good witches. Bad ones, too. The popularity of your belief has more than doubled in recent years.

English Heath Sticks and stones are often thinly disguised as words. This is because dictionaries shape people way more than people shape dictionaries.

Roman Catholic leaders sounded an alarm on Monday over the growing popularity of Halloween in Spain, calling it "pagan," "anti-Christian" and a celebration of death over life.

Author: Allison Lyons Source: Diamondback Onike Title: PAGANS ARE MAGICKAL The Pagan Student Union wants to clear the air of many myths about the Pagan religion: Pagans do not make animal sacrifices and Paganism is not a cult.

A sales manager who has spent the last eight years working for Bath and Body Works says she was fired for making her annual pilgrimage to Salem , Massachussetts, for Samhain.

Wiccan ritual and spell work can be as simple or elaborate as you want to make them.

As some don their witch outfits, others in the faith community cringe and make dire pronouncements on the evils of this popular holiday, Halloween, October 31st, which also happens to be Reformation Day, a church reform movement centered on the Catholic faith.

I wanted to share with all of you something from Jason Pitzl-Waters' blog over at The Wild Hunt.

ARIES 'The clouds are the most fertile part of the sky,' writes Guy Murchie in his book The Seven Mysteries of Life .

Mildred Downey Broxon of Albuquerque, a member of the house of Netjer, sits Saturday behind a Kemetic Orthodox altar in celebration of Las Cruces Pagan Pride Day at Young Park Sabine Green of Radium Springs breathes in the smoke from herbs to cleanse and purify herself Saturday at Young Park during Las Cruces Pagan Pride Day.

A Greenfield Drive man's plans to hold a Wiccan autumn celebration at his home last month never materialized, but his neighbors are still concerned about the intended use of the home he is building, especially after learning that he is listed on the state's Sex Offender Registry.

Title: SEX FIEND ROBIN FLETCHER A HIGH RISK Evil sex witch Robin Fletcher has vowed never to change his ways despite asking a court for his freedom.

Israel's reformation came via a rediscovery of the law, which created a brief awakening to the bankruptcy of a corrupt nation.

Emma Lee, a junior geology major at the University of Colorado, is starting a Pagan Student Alliance on the Boulder campus.

The second annual Las Cruces Pagan Pride Day will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at Young Park.

Title: A PAGAN REPUBLICAN COMES OUT OF THE BROOM CLOSET Sexy teenage witches or nature-worshipping environmentalists, not Republican politicians, serve as our popular images of contemporary Pagans.

I grew up in a day when Halloween was little more than pumpkins, fall festivals, hayrides, and dressing up as a pirate or a farmer to go trick-or-treating. That is what it held for my now post-Halloween-age children as well.

Ray Buckland is the author of over fifty books on modern Paganism and Wiccan spirituality.

If ever there was a term that to me, sounded on the surface as oxymoronic, it is a Christian Wiccan .

Wife, mother, daughter, friend, colleague... todaya TMs woman fulfils a variety of roles every day.

For hundreds, maybe thousands of years, forms of paganism reigned over human spirituality.

Title: PAGAN PRIDE DAY DONATES 343 POUNDS OF FOOD Augusta's first ever Pagan Pride Day held on Saturday, Oct.

The Augusta Chronicle's Oct. 3 Faith section article on the Wiccan belief system merely revealed what many postmodern religions are made of, and compels a response.

Augusta's first ever Pagan Pride Day held on Saturday, Oct. 3, at the Lake Olmstead gazebo attracted more than 250 people and collected more than 340 pounds of food for It's Spooky to be Hungry.

Title: COLUMBIA CELEBRATES PAGAN PRIDE DAY Chanting in a spirit circle as part of their opening ceremony, attendants of the Mid-Missouri Pagan Pride Day summoned the directions, the god and the goddess Sunday.

Juli Routon, left, Adriana Aponte, center, and Paige McDuffie, right, are involved in the Pagan Pride Day festival coming up in October.

Members of Minnesota's pagan community are celebrating their pride with a weekend's worth of activity.

Even though Pagan Pride Day started out with gloomy weather, it ended up being very pleasant for most of the day.