Paganism
UK: necklace belonging to pagan ‘sorceress’ goes on display
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TWH’s Liz Williams reports on “Pagan Sorceress'” necklace on display at the Jorvik Visitor Centre in York.
Paganism
New Merlin tale discovered in archives
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TWH reports on a newly discovered version of the Merlin Story that may create new connections in the Arthurian legends.
Aberdeen
UK: goddesses and standing stones in Scotland – but are they genuine?
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Liz Williams describes the “Ballachulish Goddess”, also known as the Goddess of the Straits, and a stone circle in Aberdeen – modern creations hearkening back to Stone Age originals.
Culture
UK: The ‘newest old tradition in Wales.’
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CHEPSTOW, WALES – If you’re in the Welsh Border town of Chepstow on Saturday, January 19th, you’ll be able to meet some unusual visitors: the world’s biggest group of Mari Lwyds. To some of our Welsh ancestors, nothing says Christmas like the arrival of a man on your doorstep dressed in a sheet, wearing a horse’s skull, decked in ribbons and with clattering jaws! This old Welsh custom has become revived in recent years and is now a definite point in the Chepstow calendar and that of other Welsh towns, as well as being popular with British pagans. The Mari Lwyd celebrations have long been associated with the Wassailing customs popular throughout the South West and Herefordshire, a celebration of the apple harvest. Both these customs are old, so let’s take a look at their origins.
archaeology
New archaeological finds in UK shed light on Pagan past
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A summer of drought revealed a number of archeological finds in the UK and Ireland. TWH explores two recent additional archaeological finds in Wales and England.