Exploring the Witch’s Sabbat

Storm Faerywolf welcomes us to the season of Samhain with an exploration of the Witches’ Sabbat, including spells and rituals for enchanting a besom and traveling to the Eternal Sabbat.

Pagan Community Notes: Week of October 15, 2026

In this week’s Pagan Community Notes, the Pagan Federation confronts religious intolerance, Damien Echols warns against livestreaming executions, and Cleveland’s Buckland Museum celebrates 60 years of Witchcraft history. Plus, community announcements and Star’s Tarot of the Week and finally Annabelle.

What the Hounds? Season of the Witch

In this edition of *What the Hounds?*, a Salem museum sparks outrage, Etsy Witches tackle weddings and job hunts, and a Christian author sees demons everywhere. [Yah, we know. No news there, but this one’s good.] The Hounds have questions. Lots of questions.

“Not Just a Pile of Stones:” Vandalism of Somerset’s Bronze Age Burial Mounds

CROWCOMBE, England — A Bronze Age burial monument in Somerset’s Quantock Hills has suffered further damage after stones were removed and rearranged at the protected archaeological site, raising concerns about the preservation of a prehistoric landscape associated with ancient burial and ceremonial practices. Burial monuments were not necessarily isolated structures. Their placement within the landscape reflects relationships between communities, ancestors, and particular locations. Although the beliefs of the people who constructed Fire Beacon Cairn cannot be reconstructed with certainty, the monument preserves physical evidence of how prehistoric communities commemorated their dead.  

Fire Beacon Cairn, believed to be approximately 4,000 years old, was disturbed on two occasions in September.