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News stories and articles featuring pagans and witches of all kinds as well as related topics. Learn about the past, present, and future of witchcraft!

What We Know About Women in the Viking Age Is Steeped in Cultural Bias

By Nancy Marie Brown
LitHub
"History books are not 'true.' They do not, and cannot, capture the totality of what happened in any one place or time. Historians choose what to tell and what to leave out. That choice is an interpretation...no matter how many facts a historian recounts in her book, it remains a story—an interpretation. And as such, it reflects her cultural biases. Until very recently, one of those cultural biases was to ignore women."
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The Pandemic Turned Me Into a Witch

By Daniel Zomparelli
The Cut
"We got married and moved into our first home together in L.A., and soon after found ourselves browsing the local mainstay witch store, House of Intuition...Turns out, we’d both been into witchcraft at a young age, even owning versions of the Book of Shadows...Growing up Catholic, I attended Catechism, a weekly religious school where I was constantly in trouble for giggling.... There, I was taught that witchcraft was sinful. Now, in a store dedicated to witches, I felt like I was getting to enjoy, wait for it, a forbidden fruit."
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How King Knight's Director and Cast Made a Comedy for People Who Love Witches

By Matthew Jackson
SyFy
"Armed with a love of witches, a coven of personal friends who happened to be witches, and years' worth of research into modern witchcraft, Bates began working on what would become King Knight, his latest feature... Funny, trippy, and made with a sense of eccentric conviction, the film is Bates' effort to tell a story about witches you might meet in real life, free of not just darkness, but also of judgment..."
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Kerry Katona's Teenage Daughter Lilly Says She Practises Witchcraft

By Jessica Sansome
Manchester Evening News
"Lilly says she started experimenting with spells around the start of the first lockdown last March. She decided to invest more time into it after discovering a pagan symbol on a tree which she took as a sign and now meets fellow witches regularly...'It's so sad because it's so misunderstood. There's such negative connotations around what witchcraft is...but it's actually a wonderfully kind, good religion,' she says."
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Banished 'Witches' Sing Of Their Pain — And Their Dreams

By Aaron Cohen
NPR
"On a brief track called "I Stand Accused," a woman in a remote part of Ghana intones and repeats the title phrase with the intensity of a global town crier...This singer is one of an estimated 1,000 women in northern Ghana who have fled their homes because of witchcraft accusations — and the fear that they will be physically attacked as a result."
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How Metal Embraced Pagan-Folk Mystics Heilung

By Dave Everley
Metal Hammer
"Heilung have materialised in metal’s collective consciousness like a spirit, despite possessing few of the traditional characteristics of a metal band. Their live performances aren’t so much gigs as communal rituals, complete with warriors, bonfires and rune-casting. The two albums they have made to date, 2015’s Ofnir and 2019’s Futha, pulse with mind-altering tribal rhythms and wordless exhortations to long-gone gods – “amplified history”, they call it."
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Shooting the Summer Solstice

By Gill Prince
Gill Prince Photography
"The Summer Solstice is especially relevant in Milton Keynes, as the 'new city' was designed specifically so that the sun will shine straight down Midsummer Boulevard, through the centre of town, on Midsummer's morning. You can draw a straight line from the Light Pyramid in Campbell Park...over the bridge and all the way down Midsummer Boulevard...Quite impressive really. "
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Australian Witches and Druids Optimistic About Post-Pandemic Future

By Nick Baker
ABC News Australia
"Over the past year, the pandemic has meant most pagan rituals and events around the country have either been cancelled or conducted online...But there's optimism among some in the community that pagan groups could emerge from the pandemic stronger than ever."
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The Best Fiction Books About Faeries and their Magickal Worlds

By Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Lavie Tidhar
WashingtonPost.com
"Sometimes — like, maybe, right now — you want to escape to another, better world. But is Fairyland it? Emerging from the mist of British folk tales and beliefs, the Fae did not always resemble the cute winged creatures in Disney’s “Peter Pan”... "

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The US Witch Population has Seen an Astronomical Rise

By Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz & Dan Kopf
QZ.com
"Spirituality is now firmly placed in mainstream culture...Though the data is sparse, what we do know is that the practice of witchcraft has seen major growth in recent decades. As the witch aesthetic has risen, so has the number of people who identify as witches..."
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Major Arcana: Portraits of Witches in America
Frances F. Denny

By Aline Smithson
LenScratch.com
"Major Arcana is an exploration of contemporary witchery told through striking photographs and short, thought-provoking essays in the subjects’ own words...Frances F. Denny is an artist and photographer whose work investigates female identities... From occultists and Neo-pagans, to herbalists and Wiccan High Priestesses..."
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1,800-Year-Old Altar to Pagan God Pan Hidden in a Byzantine Church

By Laura Geggel
LiveScience.com
"The volcanic basalt altar dates to the second or third century, but it was repurposed as a support brick in the fifth-century church... Whoever built the church apparently didn't want worshippers seeing a dedication to the god Pan, so the altar was turned around, possibly to debase and humiliate any pagans who still practiced "old" polytheistic beliefs..."
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Some of the Best Images from the Spectacular Winter Solstice at Newgrange

By Shane O'Brien
IrishCentral.com
"Viewers were treated to a spectacular site on Sunday as the passage tomb filled with light at dawn...The Newgrange passage tomb is Ireland's best-known Neolithic structures and draws tourists from all over the world...Dating back to around 3200 BC, Newgrange is about 500 years older than the pyramids in Egypt and at least 1,000 years older than Stonehenge in England..."
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Eerie Witches’ Marks Found Among Ruins of Medieval English Church

By Isis Davis-Marks
SmithsonianMag.com
"Archaeologists conducting excavations at the abandoned church of St. Mary’s in Stoke Mandeville, England, discovered strange stone carvings and medieval graffiti suspected to be “witches’ marks,” or protective symbols designed to ward off evil spirits...a design perhaps meant to entrap malicious spirits, dooming them to forever wander around an endless line or maze..."
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