It was the week before Christmas in Reykjavik, and all through the town Eva Hauksdottir led a band of 60 whistle-blowing, pan-banging, shouting demonstrators.
Pay your own debts, they yelled as they visited one bank office after another in Icelands capital. Dont make the children pay.
When she isnt leading one of the almost daily acts of protest in this land devastated by the global f
A Mid Wales horse lover is living in fear of repeat attacks after three of her animals had their tails hacked off.
Lily Ellis, 66, of Llanfair Caereinion, said she had been left distraught by the attacks on her miniature horses, which grow to about 34 inches tall.
The attacks on the horses, which normally are kept in a field beside Mrs Elliss house, has prompted the animal lover to warn oth
GPS will play an important role as Santa Claus drives his sleigh around the world tomorrow night. Now that his sleigh is equipped with a GPS tracking and navigation device, NORAD will be able to track his progress better than ever.
Unnamed sources report that Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer expressed concern that Santa’s new GPS device might make him obsolete. Santa, however, reassures us that t
… cabaret and “Novus Annus,” a musical with witches, giants, a time cop, a fairy with … Blacklight and White Ball with DJ Dragonfly. Wiccan Suzanne Sterling leads the midnight spiral dance. …
… other spiritual groups. But this Los Alamos Wiccan coven eschews dogma and scripture in favor … a huge role in paganism, the nature religion of which Wicca is a part. Time is seen as …
… cabaret and “Novus Annus,” a musical with witches, giants, a time cop, a fairy with … Blacklight and White Ball with DJ Dragonfly. Wiccan Suzanne Sterling leads the midnight spiral dance. …
Three years ago, my family went through a rough Christmas. But it wasn’t so much the family drama we were going through that made it so hard as it was the Christmas season itself.
People I saw on the street were so focused on themselves that they would actually run into each other. They couldn’t even pay attention to the simple things in life. Since that Christmas, I’m trying to rebuild and rem
While Jewish people in the Valley will be spending tonight celebrating the first day of Hanukkah, groups of the nature-based Pagan and Wiccan religions will also be gathering together to mark the Winter Solstice, the longest, darkest night of the year.
The rituals performed by Pagans and Wiccans tonight call forth the sun on the longest night of the year.
“We also refer to the solstice as Yu
Who is she? Head of Circle Sanctuary, a nature-based church and ecological preserve.
Her hangout: Sjolinds Chocolate House.
Her drink: American hot chocolate.
In 1974 the Rev. Selena Fox founded Circle Sanctuary, a Wiccan church, moving it to a nature preserve near Barneveld in 1983.
Sunday is the winter solstice, an important holiday on the pagan calendar and the first day of winter.
The Pope tipped his hat to long-time Vatican bugbear Galileo this weekend as he helped kick off the 2009 International Year of Astronomy.
Pope Benedict also gave some comfort to pagans by acknowledging the connection between the date of Christmas and the Winter Solstice.
Pope Benedict’s predecessor, John Paul II, formally apologised for the Church’s hounding of Galileo for pointing out that
