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“As a nation, we love to cast our projections on the witches of Salem,” writes Meg Elison as she examines America’s favorite film about witches. “What we want from the real people who died by state violence, the places where they hanged, the hysteria that killed them, is fun. We want Salem to be a theme park, to amuse us and titillate us.”
October 27, 2024 | https://wildhunt.org/2024/10/classics-of-pagan-cinema-hocus-pocus.htmlThe more of Romero’s films that I watched – and especially the more of his novel that I read – the more I also found a theology bubbling up through the blood that aligns with my own theology of Ásatrú, a modern religion that revives, reconstructs, and reimagines the ancient polytheism of Northern Europe.
October 26, 2024 | https://wildhunt.org/2024/10/life-itself-george-a-romeros-theology-of-the-living-dead.htmlStorm Faerywolf reviews Marvel’s new series Agatha All Along. “When we get to see fictional Witchy characters living their best lives, it gives us a renewed sense of hope that we might be able to do the same, even if they are not exactly the heroes of the story. And when Witches and queer folk collide? That’s where the rainbow magic really happens.”
October 19, 2024 | https://wildhunt.org/2024/10/review-agatha-shows-its-been-a-gay-craft-all-along.htmlIn this week’s Pagan Community Notes: Witches are popular this time of year, Moira Payne honored as Pagan of the Year in Michigan, Loki’s Torch, Hekate’s Sickle, Circle Sanctuary celebrates 50 years and more announcements.
October 17, 2024 | https://wildhunt.org/2024/10/pagan-community-notes-week-of-october-17-2024.htmlMeg Elison reviews 2009’s animated film The Secret of Kells, which draws inspiration from the recently-digitized Book of Kells, a fabulously illuminated edition of the gospels. But while the film is set at a Christian monastery, it is full of encounters with Paganism, and these encounters are what will draw viewers back to the film again and again.
October 6, 2024 | https://wildhunt.org/2024/10/classics-of-pagan-cinema-the-secret-of-kells.html