Global Survey Finds Rise in Pagan-Aligned Beliefs Across Religiously Diverse Nations

By Manny Moreno | May 14, 2025

New research from data on three dozen countries suggests a rise in belief in Pagan-aligned practices like ancestor veneration, genii loci, animal spirits, and spiritual energies.

A Library for Us: Adocentyn Research Library Expands Collection

The Adocentyn Research Library has surpassed 20,000 volumes, expanding its one-of-a-kind collection of Pagan, occult, and esoteric texts. With rare artifacts, Tarot decks, ancient manuscripts, and more, it’s a community treasure trove for seekers and scholars alike.

Lapis Modernorum Philosophorum: CERN (Very Briefly) Creates Gold From Lead

Scientists at CERN announced that they succeed in the alchemical quest of creating gold from lead.

Editorial: A woman with a Mjolnir tattoo raises hundreds of thousands after calling a child a slur. Heathens need to act.

Weekend Editor Eric O. Scott examines the case of Shiloh Hendrix, a Minnesota woman who called a five-year-old child a racial slur and subsequently received more than $750,00 in support from white supremacists, including racist Heathens.

More Headlines

I Write Tragedies, Not Sins

The Maypole Dance

Analysis: Oak Flat and “Substantial Burden”

Featured

Pagan Community Notes: Week of May 15, 2025

By The Wild Hunt | 5 minutes ago

In this week’s Pagan Community Notes, Pensacola Bookstore removes LGBTQ+ and Witchcraft books from its shelves, Interfaith group in Ohio condemns book burning, for our community members in the armed forces (thank you for your service) fyi – the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has launched a new task force to investigate alleged anti-Christian discrimination, but on a brighter note, residents of Taipei celebrate Mazu, Star’s Tarot of the Week, and Eurovision Witchcraft.

Pagan Living

Supreme Court Hears Case on Parents’ Religious Rights to Exempt Children from School Books
By Manny Moreno
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments this morning in Mahmoud v. Taylor, a case that pits two foundational principles of public education against each other: the authority of local school boards to set a unified curriculum, and the rights of religious parents to exempt their children from materials they find objectionable.
“Beneath the Trees” (2019): folk horror made with ten tropes and zero soul
By Meg Elison
As the sage Lil Wayne once said, there are two ways to make art: be good or be good at it. A film does not have to be innovative or even have anything new to say for audiences to respond. This film is neither good nor good at it. I didn’t want to sing along, so here I am to heckle.

The Wild Hunt - Modern Pagan News & Perspectives