In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: Plans for a “witch” memorial in Scotland, Siberian shaman detained by Russian security, The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster in Alaska and more!
Paganism
Pagan Community Notes: Earth Day 2019, Va. officers fired, update on Okla. child abuse case, and more!
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This week’s news that impacts the Pagan, Heathen, and Polytheist community.
Paganism
Denunciations of NZ attack and use of Valhalla
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The Wild Hunt team looks at the misuse of “Valhalla” and responses by Pagan and Heathen groups to the NZ extremist.
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Pagan Community Notes: UK Witchcraft accusations & child abuse, and more!
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This week we bring you: UK couple accusing their neighbors of being “witches” and putting spells on them, child abuse cases linked to beliefs that the children were possessed by demons, and more, including how to transform your home with Witchcraft.
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OBOD Members Travel to 2019 Southern Hemisphere Assembly
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MANAKAU, NEW ZEALAND – Members of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids are travelling to New Zealand this week to take part in the eighteenth annual Southern Hemisphere OBOD Assembly. 2018 marks the first time the Assembly has been held in New Zealand. Hosted by Grove of the Summer Stars, the Assembly will have many New Zealander and Australian OBOD members in attendance, along with OBOD Chief Philip Carr-Gomm, Scribe Stephanie Carr-Gomm and newly chosen Chief Eimear Burke. The Grove of the Summer Stars is based in Pukerua Bay, north of Wellington on New Zealand’s north island. The Assembly itself will run for six days in Manakau, a suburb of Auckland, but attendees will have the opportunity to visit the Grove during a “magical mystery tour” on the Saturday.
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Pagan Community Notes: Most Impactful Pagan News of 2018 and more!
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TWH – This week we take a look back at a few of the new stories in the mainstream that we covered that had an impact on the collective Pagan, Heathen, and Polytheist communities.
The Parliament of World Religions hosted a larger amount of programming featuring Witches and Pagans than in the past. TWH spoke with four Pagans who planned to attend PoWR to get their perspective and what they hoped to accomplish by attending. After the conference, guest contributor, Karen Dales gave us aa bird’s eye view of some of the activities in her article. As a lead up to PoWR, the Global Wicca Summit cyber conference was held in early September and centered around the theme “Wicca as a Global Faith” with the primary purpose of providing the community with open discussion and worldwide networking.