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“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.”
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: COVR announces its 2025 award nominees; Amnesty International calls for urgent action in Ghana; and a new heritage trail in Essex explores the history of the witch trials. Plus: Star’s Tarot for the week, and very clever crows- Q.E.D.
Like similar efforts in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Scotland, a legislator in Maryland is introducing a bill to exonerate the victims of the state’s lesser-known witchcraft trials.
The names of some 4,000 people, all falsely accused of witchcraft, were read aloud in a remembrance event earlier in June. The Creative Coven, a group of female artists whose work has been inspired by the Scottish witch trials, also organized an event to educate about the historical persecution.
Our UK correspondent Liz Williams reports on the Scottish Witchcraft Survey and the new monument in memory of Scottish witches.