Culture
A Witch’s Harrowing Sorrow: A Review of Hamnet
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Lyonel Perabo reviews Chloe Zhao’s film, a moody, witchy exploration of grief and art that incorporates the medieval Nine Herbs Charm into its story of Agnes Hathaway and William Shakespeare.
Culture
Spirit in the Landscape: Rediscovering Worlds at Tutbury
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Between two English counties, a day conference on sacred landscapes explored how energy, lunar geology, and living soil intertwine with Pagan spirituality. It offered a reminder that land and sacredness dwell not in arrival, but in the thresholds between worlds.
Culture
Riverside pilgrimage to remember witches
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Marking the Summer Solstice, We Are Witch embarks on a memorial pilgrimage through Norfolk, honoring women persecuted in the witch trials with ritual dress, sound art, and a commemorative quilt stitched in remembrance.
Europe
Rare Anglo-Saxon Coin Reveals Pagan-Christian Transition in Early England
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A newly discovered 7th-century gold coin in East Anglia depicts Christian and Pagan symbols intertwined—offering rare insight into Britain’s spiritual crossroads during the Anglo-Saxon era. Scholars believe it marks a cultural turning point.
News
Bronze age stone circle uncovered in Derbyshire, UK
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A standing stone in the Peak District, apparently an isolated monument, has been revealed as only one part of a standing circle and ritual complex that dates back 3700 years to England’s Bronze Age, according to archeologists with Forestry England.