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Review: Riven – Full Moon, Dark Moon

When the moon is full we think of those lunatic moments when madness overwhelms us. Whether it is sadness or joy we cannot escape the pull of the moon. Review of the album and the release concert. Lees verder

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Wicca and Initiation

There is often a great deal of dissension over the issue of Wicca and initiation. Can you be a Wiccan without initiating can you perform a ‘self-initiation’? It does just boil down to one question: Do you believe Gardner? Lees verder

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Tales of Anatolia – from Ankara to Hattuşa and the Hittites – part 1

Who are the Hittites? Anatolian civilisation at the time that would later become the core of the Hittite kingdom. Evidence of their high level craftsmanship can be seen even today. Lees verder

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Review: The Wizard and the Fairy Princess

Review of the children’s book by H.F. Galloway. Lees verder

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Review: The Charge of the Goddess. Expanded edition

This is not a straightforward re-print of the previous edition with a few extra poems, but rather an anthology of Wiccan and Pagan poetry by the true ‘Poet of Modern Witchcraft’. Lees verder

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Review: Niamh Parsons

Reviews of the albums ‘Blackbirds and Thrushes’ and ‘In My Prime’ by the Irish vocalist Niamh Parsons. Lees verder

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The Morrigan Papers, part 4

Bride has the talent of bringing forth life. That is the connection with midwifery. As a midwife you have to have ‘healing’ hands, use poetry to soothe and to ‘foresee’ the future of the child to be born. And when she reaches the age to become pregnant herself, she is literally the ‘blacksmith of men’. Lees verder

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Rhiannon

A poem for Rhiannon. Lees verder

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Harran: Last Refuge of Classical Paganism – part II

At the end of the Pagan world in the latter days of the Roman Empire several Hermetic and Neoplatonic scholars left the Empire to go ’to the East’. Where ‘in the East’ did classical Graeco-Roman knowledge survive until it came back to the West? One name comes up over and over again: Harran. Lees verder

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The ‘Obby ‘Oss… Padstow, Cornwall, UK … and Berkley, California, USA Part 2

FOLK TRADITIONS & CUSTOMS: The ‘Obby ‘ Oss.. Padstow, Cornwall, UK … and Berkley, California, USA – Part 2. (Have you read Part I?) In 2007 John Bishop & Sabina Magliocco compiled a DVD including the 1951 film Oss Oss … Lees verder

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