The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/category/features/arts-culture)
“For contemporary practitioners of Witchcraft, the novel demands wrestling with a complicated history,” Cosette Paneque writes. “These women weren’t claiming the identity of ‘Witch.’ They were sharing knowledge, building community, exercising what small control they could over their precarious lives.”
Karl E.H. Seigfried spins up five records sure to appeal to Pagan rock and metal listeners, including new releases from Green Lung, SpellBook, and Dungeon Weed.
Beyond ancient sites and monuments, UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list uplifts living traditions rooted in ritual, music, food, and craft. From Ifá to Cuban Son, these recognitions honor community, continuity, and the human bonds that keep culture alive.
“The 50’s, for all their historical patina, were an age of post-war innovation: the mixer, the slow cooker, the top load dishwasher,” writes Lauren Parker in her review of this favorite of Witch cinema. “And for more than just these appliances: the invention of the nuclear family and its purity.”
The New York County District Attorney repatriated several artifacts to Turkey this week, including a marble head of the Athenian orator Demosthenes and a larger than life bronze statue of an emperor.
Luke Babb reviews the new Benoit Blanc film and discovers that, in the midst of a murder mystery steeped in Catholic imagery, there is a lot to consider about the role of clergy in modern Paganism.
