(Pagan) News of Note
My semi-regular round-up of articles, essays, and opinions of note for discerning Pagans and Heathens. Two different Thelema-related publications hit the Internet this week, the first is the August...
View ArticleThe Business and Controversy of Halloween
It is becoming ever more apparent that the Halloween holiday has become the biggest holiday outside of Christmas. Popular Halloween destination spots like Salem, MA gathers 75,000 people on that night...
View ArticleThe Press Catches Samhainophobia
Ah October, the weather is getting cooler, the leaves are turning, and the best holiday of all, Halloween (aka Samhain to us Pagan types) quickly approaches. Since the Halloween season is only second...
View ArticleQuick Note: Pagan Halloween Hysteria!
It just isn’t Halloween without some anti-Pagan Christian propaganda! Luckily, Jeremiah Films is ready to sate my need for schlocky scare-mongering with “Popculture Paganism: Neovampirism, Wicca, and...
View ArticleHere Comes the (Halloween/Samhain) Flood
You knew it was coming, the religion news-writers were priming the pump, and with Halloween/Samhain only days away a veritable flood of articles, opinion-pieces, and interviews featuring or discussing...
View ArticleA Few Quick Notes
I have a few stories of interest before we dive head-first into our Samhain celebrations, starting with an Omaha World-Herald story about a Wiccan inmate who had his request granted to change his legal...
View ArticleWhen “Jesus Ween” Just Isn’t Enough
We all had a good laugh about “Jesus Ween,” didn’t we? That misguided attempt to sanctify a day that had already been sanctified by the Catholic church way back in 609 CE, rightly mocked by Christians...
View ArticleHalloween, Monotheism, and the Pagan Vacuum
Amity Shlaes is worried. She’s worried about what the ever-growing popularity of Halloween might mean. “…as much as we’d like it to be, Halloween isn’t secular. It is pagan. There’s nothing else to...
View ArticleUnleash the Hounds! (Link Roundup)
There are lots of articles and essays of interest to modern Pagans out there, sometimes more than I can write about in-depth in any given week. So The Wild Hunt must unleash the hounds in order to...
View ArticleGuest Post: The Marginalization of Halloween
[ Sharon Knight is a musician and artist exploring the fantastical, mythic, epic, and archetypal. She is passionate about the arts as a vehicle to bring us into ever deepening awareness of the mystery...
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