Pagan/Wiccan News

Rosin Coven , Friday @ Cafe du Nord. $14/$16. 9 p.m. The pagan lounge act, Rosin Coven , swings into Du Nord with the ghost of Kurt Weil possessing their instruments.

Author: Frank Heinz Source: NBC/DFW Title: "PAGAN" STATUES MAKE RETURN TO ARLINGTON Caelum Moor will once again stand in Arlington -- this time in the Richard Green Linear Park between the Rangers Ballpark in Arlington and Cowboys Stadium.

Summer seasonal celebrations by Pagan and pre-Christian faiths isn't merely relegated to places like Britain or North America, various Pagan groups in Russia celebrated the arrival of Summer, and their numbers are growing to the point where the international press is taking notice.

Part One: The Decision Both my maternal great grandmother and paternal grandmother were practitioners of home remedies: salves, teas, tinctures and old country "cures," one of which involved curing warts with a potato during the new moon.

More often than not, when I post news stories about a mining company on this blog, it's nearly always in reference to someone who wants to destroy the earth with no regard or reverence whatsoever for the landscape.

Tambourine throbbing in hand, Velislav chants to gods whose cult has almost been obliterated by a millennium of Christianity in Russia.

Title: THE BBC FILMS PAGAN CEREMONIES IN ICELAND A documentary film crew from the BBC attended two weddings, two naming ceremonies and one coming-of-age ceremony undertaken by Asatruarfelagid, the pagan society in Iceland, which honors the Norse gods, at Thingvellir national park on Thursday.

While commentators grouse about issues concerning accuracy , and some readers remain skeptical , more and more signs seem to point to the continuing rise of modern Paganism and the widespread acceptance of a secular "folk-pagan" idiom for seasonal celebrations in Britain.

The 7th annual Pagan Wilderness Weekend will take place from Thursday to Sunday, June 25 to 28, at Elchenburg Castle/Triplette Farm just outside of Elkin in Boonville.

A group of witches is claiming religious discrimination after church leaders banned them from using its social club.

Title: PAGANS, ATHEISTS AND NATURE WORSHIPPERS Wadi Digla is a dried-out river bed lying to the east of the Cairo suburb of Maadi.

In case you thought Miami was all about McMansions and 24-hour high-rises, get acquainted with Coral Castle.

Do you want to celebrate with others of like mind and don't want to wait for a sabbat to do it? There are Pagan gatherings that occur all over the US.

During the 17th century in England, someone urinated in a jar, added nail clippings, hair and pins, and buried it upside-down in Greenwich, where it was recently unearthed and identified by scientists as being the world's most complete known "witch bottle."

In Great Britain, a report reveals that a doctor was ordered to apologize to a Pagan patient, who complained that her practitioner "oozed Christianity ." The patient complained that her doctor's overt religious beliefs "made it impossible to forge a doctor-patient relationship." She also said that "her medication had been drastically changed" and ...

A Christian nation ... a Jewish nation ... an Islamic nation ... Pagan nation ... Are we not, as a nation, the sum total of all our parts? Or does the fact that we have 280 million-plus Americans calling ourselves Christian trump all the others and make us a Christian nation? In my experience there are two kinds of Christians: Those who say they ...

Four recent news reports tie into two larger stories, the first is the issue of Pagan burial space, a matter that will become more prominent as the Baby Boomers travel further into their retirement years.

Portrayals of witchcraft in church records can be very amusing. Almost everything that was "known" at the time about witches was pure fiction, inventions by church authorities who were told that witches were a threat and so had to come up with something to describe.

A small sculpture found in a German cave could be the world's oldest, but comments from some researchers seem to lean towards the non-academic. The female figure, which is estimated to be about 35,000 years old, is of an amply-breasted woman with wide hips and a swollen belly.

Editor, the Gazette: How long will we Christians allow our rights to be eliminated? The young man's request for prayer to be eliminated during graduation at Southeastern High School is a good example.