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“A story set in Near becomes a mirror,” writes Beatrix Kondo, exploring folklore, fear, and the familiar stranger in V.E. Schwab’s novel “The Near Witch.” “What the mirror reflects is a community organized around the strategic management of its own fear.”
“Art is not concerned with being right so much as it is with being true,” writes Storm Faerywolf. “When we approach magic as art, we accept that subjectivity is not a flaw to be corrected, but an inherent quality to be cultivated and grown.”
A federal voting bill moving through Congress would require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register for federal elections. While supporters call it an election security measure, critics warn the requirements could create new obstacles for some voters and minority communities.
“I have never kidded myself about Kansas,” writes Luke Babb. “There are parts of it I love, sure, in the way any kid loves the home where they grew up. But I was not yet out of high school before I knew that I was never going to come back.”
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: New Moon Eclectics scores a victory in Georgia, scientists rediscover some super-cute marsupials once thought extinct, “witchcraft” is mentioned in a Seattle-area murder investigation, and we share the sad news that Kat Suthon has crossed the Veil.
As warnings about AI “necromancy” circulate in Catholic discourse, Pagans once again appear as the unspoken cautionary tale. But the real ethical concern may not be communicating with the dead, but consent, authority, and imitation.
