Faerie faith High Priestess life to be remembered and celebrated

Edit The Examiner 12 Jun 2016
Dr. Patricia Marie Zook, better known as "Lady Epona", was a High Priestess of the Faerie Faith and a witch. She died on May 29th at age 65 of cancer, COPD, and congestive heart failure. Her obituary was just released yesterday with announcement of a celebrations of her life as scheduled events ... (An off shoot of Wicca.) They are traditionalists who stick to Celtic gods who they consider part of the term "faerie" ... Everett and Carolyn Zook....

Pagan Witches schedule hexing for Stanford rapist

Edit The Examiner 08 Jun 2016
Recently an event was scheduled for Facebook that involved pagan witches hexing convicted Stanford rapist Brock Allen Turner, who got a light sentencing for it ... The hexing event is online and will take place in the participants' homes ... There is even a form of a matriarchal feminist goddess-centered Wicca ... A member was quick to point out that not everyone follows Wicca and the "rede" means 'advice' not 'law" as per definition ... ....

The INTRAFAITH Conversation- Rev. Dr. Susan Strouse

Edit The Examiner 27 May 2016
The Rev. Dr. Susan Strouse has been a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America for over 17 years, serving congregations in Buffalo, NY, and Novato, CA ... Strouse has invited representatives of other religious traditions - Wicca, Hinduism, Brahma Kumari, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, Baha'i and more - to come during "Pluralism Summer" to share their teachings, perspectives, prayers and selves with the congregation ... Examiner ... Rev ... ... ....

Bernie supporters cast bewitching spell in Portland

Edit The Examiner 17 May 2016
Wiccan witches gathered over the weekend to do a ritual for presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in Portland, Oregon. Leigha Lafleur, hosted the event. She had advertised it on Sanders' volunteer website ... The gathering was very small ... The comments, made a few hours ago, of such articles tend to demonize those in Neopaganism or Wicca, even going as far to focus on weight and appearance which is irrelevant to the topic ... ....

Bernie Sanders ‘Magick Ritual’ Portland Campaign Event Planned For Wiccans, Druids, Pagans

Edit Inquisitr 14 May 2016
Bernie Sanders supporters hailing from various magickal sects such as Wicca and Druidism will meet together on Friday night in Portland, Oregon, to invigorate the candidate’s campaign with spiritual energy. It may sound an awful lot like a satirical news story at first glance, but Bernie’s official campaign website is currently hosting the ad ... (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images) ... https.//t.co/ULEx6caJn1 #CausePortland....

Wicca is on the rise in Austin Texas

Edit The Examiner 06 May 2016
Fitch is especially notable in the article, as he was initiated into Gardnerian Wicca back in 1967 ... Solitary practitioners may feel isolated, however, Gardnerian Wicca and other forms that spun off of Gerald Gardner, (The founder of Wicca.) such as Alexanderian Wicca, require initiation to be within its ranks ... Some refer to solitary Wicca as "eclectic Wicca" or "Neo-Wicca", to distinguish between the two....

What real life 'witch' Ipsita has to say about Kangana Ranaut

Edit The Times of India 06 May 2016
Whereas, amidst the passing-the-buck-circus between Kangana Ranaut, Hrithik Roshan and Adhyayan Suman, I discovered the truth behind these words in a religion called Wicca ... In an exclusive interview, Ipsita talks about Wicca, Mother Goddess being the first witch, myths we all have about the words black magic, witchcraft and witch. What is Wicca and the truth behind being a 'witch'? ... Is Wicca about being negative or positive?....

Are fearless women witches?

Edit The Times of India 05 May 2016
Whereas, amidst the passing-the-buck-circus between Kangana Ranaut, Hrithik Roshan and Adhyayan Suman, I discovered the truth behind these words in a religion called Wicca ... In an exclusive interview, Ipsita talks about Wicca, Mother Goddess being the first witch, myths we all have about the words black magic, witchcraft and witch. What is Wicca and the truth behind being a 'witch'? ... Is Wicca about being negative or positive?....

‘Our society brands women they cannot handle as witches’

Edit The Times of India 04 May 2016
Whereas, amidst the passing-the-buck-circus between Kangana Ranaut, Hrithik Roshan and Adhyayan Suman, I discovered the truth behind these words in a religion called Wicca ... In an exclusive interview, Ipsita talks about Wicca, Mother Goddess being the first witch, myths we all have about the words black magic, witchcraft and witch. What is Wicca and the truth behind being a 'witch'? ... Is Wicca about being negative or positive?....

Kato and Kleo, 2 dogs sitting on death row for over three years

Edit The Examiner 04 May 2016
2012 seemed to be the year for deeming dogs aggressive and having them killed. Tony the Pit Bull was unjustly killed in Clifton, Arizona. Wicca, another Pit Bull met her same fate in Montreal, Quebec followed by Lennox who was murdered by the courts in faraway Belfast, Ireland ... Ms ... We can’t bring back Tony, or Wicca or Lennox or the countless other dogs that were killed for their breed or on trumped up charges of aggression ... ―. • ....

Pagan prisoners now able to get tools of faith in UK

Edit The Examiner 03 May 2016
Good news on Beltaine, the Celtic holiday, has been announced! Pagan prisoners in the United Kingdom are allowed to have ritual objects for their faith. The Ministry of Justice has recently released a 104 page book on the subject. They also included other minority faiths such as Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, and Baha'i ... Ritual items common to many pagan religions such as Wicca that have a lot of merit, are now available to prisoners ... ....

"The Mother of Modern Witchcraft" was an unlikely British spy

Edit The Examiner 15 Apr 2016
Doreen Valiente is one of Britain's most famous public witches and one of the those who helped develop the modern witchcraft religion of Wicca ... Her major contributions to Wicca were the rewrite of the Wiccan rede, a bit of an advice for witches, and "The Charge of the Goddess", her most influential text. Wicca has gone through it's first great "schism", in summer of 1957, when Valiente and some other members, had enough of Gardner....

N.J. approves more than 100 school religious holidays

Edit Lehigh Valley 11 Apr 2016
TRENTON — The state Board of Education this week approved a list of religous  holidays in the upcoming school year on which schools must allow excused absences.  ... July 2016. July 2 Laylat as-Qadr (Islam) ... 1 Lammas (Christian and Wicca) ... 1 All Saints' Day (Christian) Samhain-Beltane (Wicca) ... 21 Yule (Wicca and Christian) ... 2 Imbolic-Candlemas (Wicca and Christian) ... March 20 Ostara (Wicca) ... May 1 Beltane (Wicca) ... June 21 Litha (Wicca)....
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