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Eric O. Scott is the Weekend Editor of The Wild Hunt. He holds a PhD in English and Medieval Studies from the University of Missouri and an MFA in Creative Writing and Media Arts from the University of Missouri – Kansas City. His writing on Pagan life has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, and has been a staff writer for The Wild Hunt since 2012. His first book, The Lives of the Apostates, was published in 2013 by Moon Books. The O does not stand for “Odin.”
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.
For most holidays we write a whole new ritual and there’s no guarantee that any particular element will recur from year to year. I’ve been to Ostaras without eggs and Samhains without the names of the dead. But I’ve never been to a Beltane without the Maypole. That one remains.
The fashion house Fendi has sponsored a two-year restoration of the Grotto of Diana at the Villa d’Este, a Renaissance villa that belonged to a cardinal in the Catholic Church who decorated his vast estate with many depictions of classical myth.
Until now the Christians have had to suffer in silence. Now, thanks to the Trump administration, they can complain in anonymity.
A standing stone in the Peak District, apparently an isolated monument, has been revealed as only one part of a standing circle and ritual complex that dates back 3700 years to England’s Bronze Age, according to archeologists with Forestry England.