Welcome to the inaugural What the Hounds?—our new roundup of the stories that made us stop, reread the headline, and wonder what we had just read. This week: rosaries, religion bans, and an Anubis murder case.
Culture
Pagan Community Notes: Week of July 23, 2026
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In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: a cardinal (not the bird kind) reignites the Pachamama controversy and debate over Paganism in the Catholic Church, career spells make the business news, Brittany explores the “misnamed Witch,” and, of course, Star’s Tarot of the Week.
Culture
Migration and Religious Diversity Shaped Early Vilnius in Europe’s Last Pagan Kingdom
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Long before Lithuania officially embraced Christianity, Orthodox migrants and local converts lived alongside a predominantly pagan population in medieval Vilnius, offering new archaeological evidence that religious change unfolded gradually through migration, trade, and everyday life.
Arts & Culture
Tarot! at the Morgan Library
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“If someone were trying to trap me,” writes Meg Elison in her review of the exhibit, “one of the surest ways would be to put up a sign to say there’s a show focused on tarot inside this building, this cardboard box, this tiger pit. This thing is a Witch magnet.”
Africa
Pagan Community Notes: Week of July 16, 2026
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In this week’s Pagan Community Notes, Vodoun plays a critical role in saving Benin’s Mangrove, Ancient Neolithic site, Witch’s Grave reveals some secrets, Star’s Tarot of the week, and an update from the Pagan Solidarity Alliance.
Arts & Culture
Review: Nolan’s “The Odyssey” burns the world entire
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Weekend Editor Eric O. Scott reviews Christopher Nolan’s new film “The Odyssey,” which portrays the Homeric hero as haunted by war, loss, and a sense that he has betrayed the law of the gods.