The eve of Merry Foole’s Day

A A grey day, indeed, but let us look forward to tomorrow, a day when we should celebrate, not just because it is a day of fun and pranks, but because it represents the resiliency of the pagan spirit and pagan ways, and the nature of humans, pagan and non-pagan alike, to endure through change and upheaval, and keep the good things around.

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The Chaplain, The Witch, and the Warden: Pagan Prison Ministry [Saoirse]

We all have our own prisons [that] we build. We accept perceived obstacles, limitations [in] what we can and cannot do. These become our walls. -Rev. Jerrie HildebrandLike many other Pagans I consider myself a philanthropist, and an activist. I participate in Blue Star’s Kiva.org community, and I’m keenly aware and concerned with the fair treatment of Pagans by public institutions. Fair and equal treatment, the ability to seek access to one’s spiritual and religio
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readers react: List of 50 banned words is ‘ridiculous’

SILive.com readers can’t figure it out. Why would the city seek to ban 50 words and terms such as “birthday” and “Halloween” from some standardized tests taken by students in our schools? Schools chancellor Dennis Walcott might be the only one applauding the list of words he wants to exclude from some standardized tests.

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Boy ‘tortured and drowned’ over witchcraft claims, court told

A teenage boy underwent “unimaginable physical torture” before being drowned by his sister and her partner because they believed he was a sorcerer who was practising witchcraft, a court heard on Thursday.

Eric Bikubi and Magalie Bamu, both 28, killed 15-year-old Kristy Bamu in their east London flat after violently abusing him for several days, and repeatedly attacked the victim’s two sisters, whom they accused of sorcery, the Old Bailey heard on the opening day of the trial.
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Heathens Are Not Skinheads: A Guide to Avoiding Trouble [Dalton Miller]

In Modern Heathenism there is a lot of emphasis on ancestral roots and veneration of said ancestors. It is obviously a tradition that comes from Northern Europe and is steeped in its culture, history, and beliefs. But with that being said, Heathenism is in my opinion one of the most misunderstood of the Pagan traditions and it is because of this that I am writing a guide to sorting out the Pagan religion from the National Socialist movement. We cannot deny that Neo-Nazis have used many o
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