Love, lust, and leeks: Siobhan Ball offers us the legends and folklore surrounding the leek, a vegetable that ancient pagan cultures sometimes saw as revolting and sometimes as a symbol of desire, alongside a delicious leek stew that’s perfect for celebrating the Spring equinox.
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This is a disturbing story, right up until the end, where her lawyers try to use her belief in magic as evidence that she's mentally ill
Hassan Shalgheen was found to have committed sexual crimes against multiple women under the guide of providing them with a “cleansing ritual” to “remove evil spirits,” according to the Gwinnett County District Attorney.
Lyonel Perabo provides a brief overview of three subgenres of heavy metal music of interest to Pagan listeners – folk, Viking, and Pagan metal – and offers TWH’s very own heavy metal playlist.
As Morgan Daimler had already discovered, there’s no record of the phrase “oak, ash, and thorn” before Rudyard Kipling. Specifically, they show up in his books Puck of Pook’s Hill and Rewards and Fairies, wielded by the clever hands of one Mr. Robin Goodfellow. “Oh,” I muttered, learning this. “Oh, you clever sneak.”
Pagan Leaders share insights about International Women’s Day 2024 ~ Happy International Women’s Day! We share some reactions for Pagan leaders about the world-wide event happening today.
Thank you to Laura Tempest Zakroff, Phyllis Curott, Lilith Dorsey, and Selena Fox for sharing their perspectives!
Researchers investigating the ancient city of Gath, where David and Goliath fought their famous battle, find connections between plants and Mother Goddesses.
Except that what I heard then were no musical notes. These were sounds of the earth. Crackling; slowly rumbling; like a fissure opening up on the ocean floor; or a mountain growing, or a volcano awakening after millennia of stillness. The music had not even started that I was already captivated.
A government project support in the sustainable practices of the Ava Guaraní Indigenous Peoples in eastern Paraguay highlights how Indigenous knowledge, economics, and native plants can create a climate-friendly sustainable future.
Meg Elison reviews a film that she argues is tonally dissonant, incoherent, and rambling – and also perfect. It’s 1998’s “Practical Magic,” starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, in today’s Classics of Pagan Cinema!
In this week’s (long) Leap Day Pagan Community Notes: how Leap Year works, hummingbirds and Witchcraft, and more events and announcements, plus our tarot of the week.
We also bring news of two Crossings of the Veil -- Diane Lorraine Darling and Edward "Ed" Fitch have recently passed away.
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After a long and resilient journey amid the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Adocentyn Research Library (ARL) is thrilled to announce its eagerly awaited reopening to the public.