Siobhan Ball offers us the legends and folklore surrounding the leek, a vegetable that ancient pagan cultures sometimes saw as revolting and sometimes as a symbol of desire, alongside a delicious leek stew that’s perfect for celebrating the Spring equinox.
Arts & Culture
Classics of Pagan Cinema: Practical Magic
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Meg Elison reviews a film that she argues is tonally dissonant, incoherent, and rambling – and also perfect. It’s 1998’s “Practical Magic,” starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, in today’s Classics of Pagan Cinema!
Arts & Culture
An Encounter with Pagan Metal
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Except that what I heard then were no musical notes. These were sounds of the earth. Crackling; slowly rumbling; like a fissure opening up on the ocean floor; or a mountain growing, or a volcano awakening after millennia of stillness. The music had not even started that I was already captivated.
Pagan Community Notes
Pagan Community Notes: Week of February 29, 2024
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In this week’s (long) Leap Day Pagan Community Notes: Crossings of the Veil, hummingbirds and Witchcraft, and more events and announcements
News
A local’s guide to the Edinburgh Beltane Fire Festival
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Making plans to visit the largest Beltane festival in Europe this year? Siobhan Ball has you covered for the best places to eat and stay while visiting Edinburgh, as well as tips on making the most of your time in the UK’s most haunted city.
Arts & Culture
Ásatrú at the End of the Day
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What does Ásatrú theology have to tell us about end-of-life issues? How does it help us to understand our experiences as we care for those with growing cognitive issues and as we develop those issues ourselves?