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Monthly Archives: July 2009

How To Curse Someone In 4 Steps (*Satire)

A controversial new book tells you how to put curses on your enemies by harnessing your dark powers in four easy steps!

All you have to do, says famed sorcerer and occult author Damien Mulkrin, is forget about the Golden Rule and resign yourself to the fact that vengeance, and plenty of it, is the only thing that will make you happy.

“Sorcerers, witches and warlocks aren’t the only people wh

Interior Halts Uranium Mining Near Grand Canyon

The Interior Department announced Monday it is temporarily barring the filing of new mining claims, including for uranium, on nearly 1 million acres near the Grand Canyon.

The land is being set aside for two years so the department can study whether it should be permanently withdrawn from mining activity, according to a notice published in the Federal Register online. The notice covers 633,547

Earliest Map Of America No Forgery, Expert Says

The 15th century Vinland Map, the first known map to show part of America before explorer Christopher Columbus landed on the continent, is almost certainly genuine, a Danish expert said on Friday.

Controversy has swirled around the map since it came to light in the 1950s, many scholars suspecting it was a hoax meant to prove that Vikings were the first Europeans to land in North America – a cla

The Pagans Who Run Our Country

More Scottish Government staff are practising pagans than are members of several major world religions, new figures have shown.

Seven civil servants said that they worshipped nature and various ancient gods during a recent diversity check on religious beliefs – a higher number than Jews, Sikhs or Hindus.

However, they will not get special treatment – unlike pagan police officers south of the

The Secret World Of Pagan Britain

Matt Tucker would like to make it very clear that he’s never sacrificed an animal, let alone a human being.

The 37-year-old IT sales manager from Birmingham is one of up to 200,000 pagans practising in Britain. He has been pilloried and abused in the street for his beliefs, although he insists they involve ­nothing more sinister than organising social functions for pagans and attending eight

Dorset Ridgeway’s Killing Field: Were Victims Vikings Or Local Heroes?

It was a scene familiar from the killing fields of Iraq or the Balkans, but unheard of in rural Dorset. As the earth-moving machine peeled back a thin layer of topsoil, it exposed a tangled mass of human bones.

Fifty-one young men had been decapitated with swords or axes before their bodies were tossed into a pit. The heads were neatly stacked to one side.

Radio-carbon dating suggests that t

‘Anasazi Sickness’: Relic Raiders Do More Than Mess With History

A shell necklace scoured from ancient ruins makes for a rare collector’s item in the white man’s world and fetches thousands of dollars for a grave robber.

A clay pot with pre-Columbian black-and-white zigzags is a coveted mantel ornament in Santa Fe or Salt Lake City.

Here in Four Corners Indian Country, though, the cultural riches that federal authorities allege 24 traffickers plundered an

When Belief Means A Battle

A Druid lives behind the walls of Deuel Vocational Institution, a state prison for men near Tracy.

Morgan James Kane, a burly man with tattooed forearms, follows a neopagan belief older than Christianity. The little-known religion born among ancient Celts promotes the divinity of nature. Druids celebrate the sun, moon and turning seasons.

Magic and miracles are possible for the pure at heart

In Public Schools, Which Holy Days Are Holidays?

The latest wrangle over religion and schools is in New York City, where the City Council recently voted to add two Muslim holy days to the schools’ holiday calendar.

It may not happen, because Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who gets the last word, opposes the idea. “If you close the schools for every single holiday,” the mayor told The New York Times, “there won’t be any school.”

Whatever the outc

Broom Times: Fringe Magazines Find Their Niche

Leela Williams readily admits her magazine, The Spirit Guide to Spellcraft - A Comprehensive Guide to Magick in the Southern Hemisphere, is a “niche within a niche”.

She started it three years ago for wannabe witches inspired by the TV program Charmed or Harry Potter who were struggling to make northern hemisphere pagan rituals relevant in Australia.

Ms Williams and her co-editor Joanne Lock

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