It was supposed to be a “bloodless bullfight,” a dangerous dance between a pirouetting matador and an enraged bull that would not end in death.
But this time-honored Portuguese tradition capping a religious festival was anything but bloodless.
As the matador raised a short festooned spear to stick to the bull’s neck, an animal welfare investigator charged into the ring, suspecting that the b
An estate agent from Shepton Mallet has won a lucrative job as a witch at the Wookey Hole tourist site in Somerset.
Carole Bohanan beat 300 fellow applicants for the £50,000 a year post. She said her “witchy charisma” had helped her secure the role.
She will be required to teach magic and witchcraft in the site’s caves. The role also requires her to be able to cackle and not be allergic to c
When I was young I was struck by lighting Antonio Aragón told me. I stared at him incredulously, and asked how he could have survived, to which he simply replied Why question such an amazing gift?
Antonio is what is commonly known as a curandero, a traditional witch doctor who people all over Peru, but mostly in the Andes, go to in search of cures for their illnesses, as well as their perso
Despite the name, Southern New Hampshire Pagan Pride Day isn’t just for crazy people who dance naked around a fire.
Actually, very few pagans anymore dance naked around anything, and one purpose of the day is to help clear up Hollywood-fed misconceptions of what modern pagans do.
We don’t have green skin. We don’t dance around the fire naked. We don’t do evil, said Kali Fyre, Southern New
Why does it matter if women can hold positions of responsibility and leadership in spiritual and religious life and communities? Many years ago, Mary Daly wrote: “If God is male, then the male is god.” That which is sacred to us is what we most deeply value and care about. It sets the pattern for what we value, all down the line. So if our only images of the sacred are male, and all positions of s
With vampires not so much. I will be curious to see about witchcraft because you have practitioners of Wicca who have a stand and they are out there. With vampires I occasionally get young readers ask if I believe but I tell them the only vampires I’ve
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As the naked, painted young men of the Kamayurá tribe prepare for the ritualized war games of a festival, they end their haunting fireside chant with a blowing sound whoosh, whoosh a symbolic attempt to eliminate the scent of fish so they will not be detected by enemies. For centuries, fish from jungle lakes and rivers have been a staple of the Kamayurá diet, the tribes primary source of pr
To some it might appear that the gap between Christians and pagans is a wide one.
But Melanie Cottam and Aimee DeBrienza - both grew up as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - choose to focus on the similarities between their former religion and their current pagan beliefs as members of the Iron County-based Goddess Group.
“There’s a lot more that unite the faiths of
Wild harvested eye of newt, toe of frog, wool of bat, and tongue of dog are what you would expect to find in a standard witch’s brew. However, for the modern green witch, such implements definitely require a bit of toil and trouble to find. Nowadays, keeping the stove-top cauldron bubbling with the most magical of potions is as easy as grabbing some weeds off the front lawn or the edge of a sidewa
