Blog reader Maria writes in with an interesting question, and I thought I'd put it out there to all of you for different perspectives. She asks, "I live in the ... Read More

Author JK Rowling announced today that Tales of Beedle the Bard will be published this year in order to raise money for her children's charity, the Children's High Level Group. ... Read More

In England, the Birmingham City Council has put Internet filtering software in place that prevents employees from viewing any websites that have to do with atheism or the occult. This ... Read More

Depending on where in the world you live, you might get a treat this Lammas. On Friday, August 1, there will be a total solar eclipse visible in some parts ... Read More

I'm sure many of you have been following the horrifying case of the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, where 58-year-old Jim Adkisson opened fire the other day, killing two and ... Read More

Several years ago, the case of Tempest Smith made headlines. Tempest was a 12-year-old girl who committed suicide in 2001 after being bullied at school for her Wiccan beliefs. Her ... Read More

Thanks to blog reader Molly, who pointed me towards Irish America magazine (part of the Irish Abroad website), which has some neat cultural information. The current issue has a nice ... Read More

A reader who lives below the equator asks, "Please help those of us in the southern hemisphere -- was July's full moon still a Blessing Moon?" That's a good one, and ... Read More

Magical Mondays: Buttons! © Getty Images OK, guys, it's time for Magical Mondays again! We had a lot of really great responses to last week's item, which was Snakeskin. For those ... Read More

The United States isn't the only country whose libraries are facing a budget crisis. It appears that in Great Britain, the Harry Price Library of Magical Literature at the University ... Read More

In a case that bears a striking similiarity to last year's anti-soothsaying ordinance in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, the folks of Montgomery County, Maryland, have a rule on the books prohibiting ... Read More

Millions of children have read the Harry Potter books and wished they could attend Hogwarts -- heck, I'm supposedly an adult and I wish I could go to Hogwarts. Anyway, ... Read More

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has revised its guidelines on how to handle religious diversity issues in the workplace, according to a story in Business Week. Due to the ... Read More

You know, I may giggle quietly every time I see one of those "witches are normal" articles, but I tell ya, they're a sight better than the "witches are weirdoes ... Read More

July is the birth month of both John Dee and his assistant Edward Kelley, so over at altreligion, Jennifer Emick has posted a nice piece profiling Dee. A personal advisor ... Read More

If you had lived in seventeenth- or eighteenth-century Scotland, and you had problems with your cows, chances are good you didn't have enough scientific knowledge to understand things like disease ... Read More

Back in 1612, a full eight decades before anyone had ever heard of a little New England town called Salem, a group of people were tried and executed in England ... Read More

Magical Mondays: Snakeskin! © Getty Images After a recent conversation with some friends about unusual items we can use in spellwork, I had an idea for a little exercise we can ... Read More

Looking for Pagan kids' books?© Getty Images 2006 Blog reader Orangey Snicket asks, "I have three children I'm raising in my Pagan faith. But it's hard to find good kids' books ... Read More

Pharmacologists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have just completed a study which indicates that the aroma of frankincense might help regulate emotions such as anxiety and depression. Research shows ... Read More

The Salem witch trials were over 300 years ago, but the legacy of those accused lives on. Rebecca Nurse, who was known as a pious Christian woman, was one of ... Read More

Coming right on the heels of our discussion about poppetry in action, police in Florida are trying to figure out just how to handle the case of a poppet left ... Read More

There's been a lot of kerfluffle lately about access to Stonehenge, some of it even coming in the form of camp-out protests. The site, which is thousands of years old, ... Read More

News from Playbill is that finally, FINALLY, there's a movie adaptation on the way for the Broadway musical Wicked. If you've never seen the play, you're really missing out, because ... Read More

Friday is the date of this month's full moon, and it's the one we know as the Blessing Moon. In addition to being the perfect time to take inventory of ... Read More

I found this piece by way of Mark Morford's blog over at the SF Gate, and I gotta tell you, it's one of the funniest things I've seen all day. ... Read More

So there's a Satanist dad and a Christian mom, and the two of them are divorced. She wants the kids to go to church on Sunday morning, but that's when ... Read More

Oh, this is fantastic! An Australian newspaper reports on a tablet, inscribed in Greek, that reads ''May your penis hurt when you make love". Apparently the seventh-century tablet was unearthed ... Read More

We've been following the case of Jeremy Hall, the atheist soldier who filed a lawsuit against a superior officer and the Department of Defense a few months ago. It looks ... Read More

British author Robert Graves was long known as a war poet, folklorist, and expert on mythology. His book, The White Goddess, which looks at the concept of deity as sacred ... Read More

Up in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, my pal Tigger tells me there are signs all over the place supporting teacher John Freshwater, the middle-school science teacher who was fired for (among ... Read More

I'm noticing an increasing trend, particularly in the couple of weeks following each Sabbat, in the print media which is what I like to think of as the "Witches are ... Read More

Sorry for the last minute update, but I just discovered that there's going to be a segment on soldier Jeremy Hall tonight on Anderson Cooper's show on CNN. Correspondent Randi ... Read More

Although this isn't truly Wiccan or Pagan news, I know there are a ton of cat people who read this blog, so I wanted to share with you an article ... Read More

© Patti Wigington 2008 Ever wonder what a magical poppet is for? Although they're commonly portrayed in movies and television as "spooky Voodoo dolls", there's more to poppetry than that. In ... Read More

Here's a follow-up to last month's post on the South Carolina "I Believe" lawsuit. The Columbia Free Times says that the plaintiffs in the suit have been on the receiving ... Read More

In a follow up to last month's kerfluffle about a DesMoines resident who painted Pagan symbols on his fence, it looks like city officials have taken some time to re-think ... Read More

So do some other people, and they're willing to demonstrate their abilities on a new reality television show. A new program called The One: The Search for Australia's Most Gifted ... Read More

I recieved this by way of another online community, and everyone is being asked to pass it along. If you or someone you know is a veteran and a Druid, ... Read More

In what's most likely an effort to court the evangelical vote in the upcoming presidential election, candidate Barack Obama told an audience the other day that he hopes to revamp ... Read More

For hundreds of years, anyone could walk up to the giant monoliths at Stonehenge, on England's Salisbury Plain, and put their hands directly on the stones. However, since the 1970's, ... Read More