High Magic’s Aid by Scire (Gerald B. Gardner) is not a typical witchcraft book by today’s standards. It is not a how-to manual. It doesn’t pander to a culture of mass market self-help in easy to digest, bite sized pieces (don’t worry, we’ve all been there). What the book does provide is a historical record…
JD Vance, nicknamed Lil’ Smokey by iHip News for his smoky eyes (or was it his cocktail-sized smoked sausage) has made feeble attempts to attack and vilify pagans in his latest hate speech at the March for Life. Vance’s speech begins predictably enough with attendees encouraged to make more babies (just like he and Usha,…
Samoa’s prime minister has proposed a ban on all non-Christian faiths apparently to counteract religious extremism. Wait, wouldn’t that be an act of religious extremism in itself, to outlaw all other religions in your country? I think that’s a fair question. The only religious extremism taking place in Samoa appears to be coming from the…
Despite its waning popularity at the start of the 21st century, British Traditional Wicca is alive and well today. After twenty years as a solitary practitioner of Wicca and witchcraft (with a smattering of other practices over the years), I am now in the outer court of an Alexandrian coven. Alexandrian witchcraft is a form…