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Continued Witchcraft Assaults Despite UN Efforts

While Canada has eliminated outdated laws regarding Witchcraft, witchcraft accusations are still a serious threat against women and other minorities around the globe. TWH takes a look at this world-wide issue.

Click Here to read about how people continue to be accused of witchcraft, and the tragic consequences those accusations bring.

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UK: Stonehenge Bypass Update

UK reporter Liz Williams brings up up-to-date with the latest discussions and planning for the building of a highway bypass that will run close to Stonehenge.

Click here to read her report.

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Pagan Community News for December 17, 2018

We bring you the latest in Pagan news every week. This week we look at: * The Daily Beast discusses the repeated use of “Witch Hunt” by Donald Trump * Update in the situation that continues to unfold regarding PanTheaCon * The house of Sarah Clayes, who was accused of witchcraft in 1692, was placed on the market for sale * Urban fantasy writer Diana Rowland celebrates the holidays with Dragons, and her neighbors are not pleased.

All this and much more, including our weekly Tarot reading. Click here to stay in the know!

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Pagan Community News for 11/13/2018

We bring you the latest in Pagan news every week. This week we look at: * The Satanic Temple’s $150M lawsuit against Netflix and Warner Brothers over the Baphomet statue in “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” * A new album by Dead Can Dance, entitled Dionysus (and yes, it’s all about the god) * Coverage of the Third Annual Black Witch Convention causes controversy * Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasting is including witch/Pagan festivals in an upcoming airing of a show about harvest festivals * How are you celebrating Wolfenoot???

All this and much more, including our weekly Tarot reading. Click here to stay in the know!

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Weschcke bio chronicles occult/New Age pioneer

Biographer Melanie Marquis describes the weight of history as she collaborated on Carl Llewellyn Weschcke's pioneering work. 

Click this link to learn the surprising discoveries she made during her research!

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Wicca Emerged as Controversy in West Virginia Election

In a race for the West Virginia House of Delegates, the Wiccan writings of one candidate became an issue. Lissa Lucas, who writes under the pen name Llysse Smith Wylle, was accused of failing to disclose her Wiccan practice by her opponent. Is it a big deal?

Did it impact the race? Click here to learn more about it!

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Canada Set to Remove Witchcraft Laws as Arrests Made

Canada attempts to finalize legislation decriminalizing the practice of Witchcraft. Meanwhile, arrests are made of individuals  fraudulently portraying themselves as witches in order to obtain money or valuables from a victim. 

Click here for more on how this issue may impact Canadians.

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Pagan Community News for 11/5/2018

We bring you the latest in Pagan news every week. This week we look at:

* The Parliament for World Religions conference starts this week in Toronto * The Satanic Temple seeks to sue “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” for misuse of TST’s monument design of Baphomet * Covenant of the Goddess releases a statement regarding the tragedy at The Tree of Life Or L’Simcha Synagogue in Pittsburgh, denouncing anti-Semitism * West Virginia candidate Lissa Lucas attacked by conservatives for a Wiccan past * David Salisbury posts that Greyhound denied entry to a Greyhound bus traveling home to Baltimore from DC due to religious discrimination. 

All this and much more, including our weekly tarot reading. Click here to stay in the know!

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Photographer captures Witches in America

Photographer Frances F. Denny learned her ancestors were involved with the Salem Witch Trials - both as a judge and an accused witch. This sparked her recent photography project: Major Arcana - Witches in America.

Click here to read more about Frances Denny, her ancestors, and her project.

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Column: An Autumn Death

Guest columnist Carie Pitzulo shares how helping her grandmother pass gave her a deeper understanding of Goddess, and the connection of childbirth to death.

Read more about her journey here.

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Blessed Samhain!

Blessings of the turning of the Wheel! We find ourselves at Samhain. At this time of retrospection, we look back and forward. Click to read contributions of the Witches and Wiccans who are part of our pagan community....

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Cyber Cemetery honors the Radical Faerie dead

Over the past twenty years, one member of the Radical Faerie tribe has been building a special website, a cyber cemetery, dedicated to all those that have died. It is called Faerie Ancestors List.

Click here to learn more about the Radical Faeries and how they are honoring their beloved dead.

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Pagan Community Notes for 10/29/2018

We bring you the latest in Pagan news every week. This week we look at:

* The Wayist Druid public Samhain is a Success! * Gods & Radicals deals with sexual misconduct accusations of one of its writers * Stan Newcombe named 2018′s Michigan Pagan of the Year * We mark the One Year anniversary of the Las Vegas shooting * Witches paddle down river in Oregon * Atom Universe’s social media misstep in making disparaging remarks about Witches

All this and more, plus our weekly tarot reading. Click here to stay in the know!

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New books explore entheogens

Are you a psychonaut - someone who explores altered states of consciousness through hallucinogens for spiritual or scientific purposes? TWH looks at three recently published books all about different entheogens.

Click here for reviews of Psychedelic Mystery Traditions, DMT Dialogues, and Cannabis in Spiritual Practice.

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Column: Thor’s Hammer in Iceland

A farmstead from the Viking Age was found earlier this month by a local resident in Þjórsárdalur, a valley in the southern highlands of Iceland. TWH interviews Ragnheiður Gló Gylfadóttir, the archaeologist from Fornleifastofnun Ísland who investigated the find, about the site, the discovery, and the newly-discovered objects. 

Click here to read our interview with her and learn more about the importance of what they found at the farmstead!

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Column: If our lives were that simple, we’d live in the past...

Columnist Manny Tejeda-Moreno takes a look at his development as a young witchling, noticing how everything was compartmentalized into one-or-the-other, with little shades of grey.

Read more about how growth has led to a new appreciation of those shades of grey, and how our ancestors may cheer the fight against binarism.