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Pagan Voices: Reactions to the 2024 US Presidential Election

By The Wild Hunt | 7 mins ago

Pagans from across the community react to the US 2024 Presidential Election.

The Time Wars: Something other than the Election

Election Day is upon but let’s review something truly scary.

Pagan Community Voices Election Concerns in The Wild Hunt Poll

The Wild Hunt conducted a presidential poll in the Pagan community. Here are the findings.

Witches on TV: Pop Culture and Power

TV witches have always captivated me. As a child, I would sit cross-legged in front of the screen, completely spellbound by reruns of Samantha Stephens from Bewitched on Nick-at-Nite. I remember watching her effortlessly clean the house with a twitch of her nose, never realizing that there was something deeper going on in these portrayals of witches.

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Pagan Community Notes: Week of October 31, 2024 (Samhain-tide)

By The Wild Hunt | October 31, 2024

In this week’s Pagan Community Notes, Samhain blessings to the north and Blessings of the Beltaine to the south!

Editorials and Analysis

Editorial: Oklahoma’s superintendent of schools wants to spend $3.3 million on Trump Bibles
By Eric O. Scott
Ryan Walters, the Oklahoma superintendent of schools, is angling for a cabinet position in a potential Trump administration. Weekend Editor Eric O. Scott looks at how he's planning to punch his ticket: by spending millions of tax dollars on Bibles endorsed by Donald Trump.
“They’re eating the cats” is a lie with a long history, and Pagans should be concerned
By Manny Moreno
TWH's Editor-in-Chief, Manny Moreno, responds to the claims that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are abducting and eating the pets of other residents. The baseless claim has deep roots in racism, xenophobia, and religious intolerance, and has been levied against practitioners of Vodou and modern Paganism.

Pagan Perspectives

Life Itself: George A. Romero’s Theology of the Living Dead
By Karl E. H. Seigfried
The 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.
Notes from Swannanoa, part II
By Sheri Barker
This is a month into the aftermath, and I still do not have a full picture of what is happening in all the areas devastated by Helene. I do not think it is possible to live on the ground, function day to day, and zoom out far enough to see the entirety of the scene. For me, there is no visual concept of whole, although my heart and spirit feel it.