Debra Scott is a 51-year-old witch and organiser of the Leodis Pagan Circle.
She has been married to Ken for 28 years and the couple live in Woodlesford with dog Jasper and cat Jessie.
By day she is a medical technical officer at St James’s Hospital and has also worked as a pagan chaplain at Wakefield Prison.
“There are far more pagans in Leeds than people realise. It’s just that a lot o
Traveling of late through the Deep South, I’m here to report that we are ready for Halloween.
Three cloth ghosts green, white and orange dangle from the mantelpiece of our town’s nursing home. A fatter-than-usual Winnie the Pooh sprawls in a Picayune, Miss., yard, sporting a pumpkin for his middle. Miniature skulls festooned with Spanish moss droop from the iron balconies of New Orleans’ Fr
The cycle of Halloween: When we are young, we go trick-or-treating; in our teens and 20s, we dress up and go out to party; as adults we pass out candy to children. So it goes, ad infinitum. But for some people, Halloween is something completely different.
On Saturday, Oct. 31, Dawn Botke-Coe and Alan Coe, owners of Triple Goddess Bookstore in Okemos, will hold their annual festival for the paga
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Ted Andrews, acclaimed author, most notable for Animal Speak: The Spiritual and Magical Powers of Creatures Great and Small, born 1952, died on October 24, 2009. He is survived by beloved wife Kathy, other family, friends and fans too many to count.
Everyone in the metaphysical genre knows his Animal Speak as the most comprehensive book on animal totems. Andrews said, all animals spea
Magical enactments Anthropology professor Jayne Smithson acts out the curriculum for her Magic, Witchcraft and Religion course in LA-207 on Oct. 20.
Although the class discusses it, Jayne Smithsons Anthropology 150 class is not about religion.
Rather, the anthropology professor analyzes attributes of religion, such as magic, divining and talking to the dead. The course is centralized on t
Picture the scene: its midnight on All Hallows Eve, the Witching Hour is upon you and flying above you are silhouetted figures with pointed hats, riding broomsticks, each with a black cat sat behind them. Their shrieking and cackles pierce the night sky.
Ok, so maybe it sounds a little far-fetched, but with Halloween looming this Saturday theres no doubt youll come across a fair few witches
It’s hard to tell in the quiet of a color-splashed autumn morning, but Redeemer Fellowship Church is trying to set roots in a rough neighborhood. For churches, anyway.
Until this new church opened last month, its 19th-century Congregational church building in suburban Watertown was empty for nearly two years. Just across the street, a closed Baptist church is filled with condos. So is a former
Black cats mean bad luck.
That superstition, or its variants, holds sway in some cultures, especially around Halloween.
In other places, beliefs are just the opposite.
Scots have welcomed a strange black cat at the door as a harbinger of prosperity, not a spooky symbol. Some English seafaring families have kept black cats on the notion that doing so ensured that sailors and fishermen woul
Owners of a Rossville-based witch school say narrow minds and narrower bandwidth led to their recent decision to move the operation to Salem, Mass.
The school faced a cauldron of controversy in September 2003 when it opened its doors in Hoopeston, with many residents and religious officials expressing worry and suspicion over the new neighbor.
In 2007 the school changed locations, moving sou
