Culture
The Mighty Thor and the Failure of Masculinity
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There are plenty of options for pushing back on this culture of weak man-children using anger to puff themselves up. One of them is to turn to myths of mighty Thor.
Living
Opinion: Niemöller No More
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One Halloween, when I was young enough to still go trick-or-treating with my parents, a pair of boys from my school ran around my block chanting “Nazi! Nazi! Nazi!” while I stood there in my out-of-the-box Darth Vader or Spider-Man costume. When my dad was the age that I was then, he was in an extermination camp.
Arts & Culture
“Bedknobs and Broomsticks,” a parable for Gardnerian Witches
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“Armed only with some dude’s book of nonsense and her own determination and national pride, Eglantine Price could fly. She could conjure. She could make change.” Meg Elison is back with another Classic of Pagan Cinema: Disney’s 1971 musical “Bedknobs and Broomsticks,” a story with surprising resonance for her Wiccan tradition.
Arts & Culture
Classics of Pagan Cinema: Chocolat
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Meg Elison combines the folk magic of Lasse Hallström’s 2000 romance “Chocolat” with her own memories of coming to Witchcraft – and coming to terms with her mother.
Culture
Classics of Pagan Cinema: La Belle et La Bête
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In the first of a new occasional series, weekend editor Eric O. Scott looks back at Jean Cocteau’s 1946 classic, La Belle et la Bête, with an eye to its Pagan themes.