Pagan Tama
Top stories of the week in Paganism and Shinto:
- Lost Egyptian sun temple unearthed in one of the most important discoveries of the last 50 years
- UK: Pagans want support to end abuse of believers
- Shinto Shrine of Shusse Inari in America hosts autumn festival and children’s blessing
Read more below…
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Pagan News
UK: Pagans want support to end abuse of believers
The Times*
Scotland’s pagans are facing a modern-day witch-hunt with devotees being subjected to derision and persecution, a representative body has claimed…
Witch Gerdine has been planning her pagan Christmas since June
Wales Online
A mum of four who thanks her teenage “witchcraft rituals” for helping her find love, now enjoys a pagan Christmas with her family – complete with a flaming Yule log that burns for 12 days…
Watch this queer witch make Jeff Goldblum cry on his Disney+ series
Pride
Krysta Venora, a self-identified queer witch, shares how their practice connects them to nature, power, and their ancestors — and why Goldblum is welcome in their coven any time…
Meet the witches of TikTok
Mail Online
Forget broomsticks and cauldrons… today’s witches are more likely to be winning fans on social media. Natasha Poliszczuk joins the modern coven…
The rise of WitchTok
The Spectator*
#WitchTok (or Witch TikTok) is the viral take on spirituality – think Paganism, psychics, and seances in 60 second videos…
Recognising (the long history of) Christian witches may be key to diversifying witch community
Religion Dispatches
It’s become popular for news outlets to profile the apparent rise in modern witchcraft, yet the magic has been with us all along; the tendency for witches to identify as pagan is what’s actually new—this side of the medieval period, at least…
Shinto News
Shinto Shrine of Shusse Inari in America hosts autumn festival and children’s blessing
The Rafu Shimpo
Aki-matsuri is a yearly ceremony of thanksgiving, to show appreciation to Kami-sama, who gave or helped us to harvest, to gain achievements, success and connections in the year, and ask Kami-sama for their continued blessings…
There’s something fishy about this mysterious tourist spot in Japan
SoraNews24
You won’t find torii shrine gates like this anywhere else…
Do dolls have souls? A funeral rite in Japan is the essence of animism
World Crunch
Buddhist and Shinto temples in Japan hold “ningyo kuyo” (人形供養) funeral rites for unwanted dolls, a spiritual send off to thank dolls for their service and properly put them to rest…
Amabië in Spaaaaace!
Mimusubi
There was an interesting article in the November 1st Jinja Shinpō about Amabië in space. Literally…
Other News
Lost Egyptian sun temple unearthed in one of the most important discoveries of the last 50 years
The Telegraph*
Experts believe six sun temples were built by different pharaohs, but only two had previously been found by modern archaeologists…
Greek prime minister tries to broker deal for return of Parthenon marbles
The Guardian
Kyriakos Mitsotakis offers to loan Greek treasures to British Museum if ‘stolen’ sculptures are returned to Acropolis…
Indigenous Taino protest artifacts sold by Christie’s
The Wild Hunt
British auction house Christie’s sold dozens of Taino artifacts on Wednesday in Paris…
Witch Fever: “The world is scared of female power… The witch is a symbol of fighting back against that oppression”
Kerrang!
We meet Witch Fever to discover the 400-year-old influences behind their acerbic doom-punk and how they’re channelling it into positive change…
‘Witch Hunts’ Past & Present
India: Elderly man suspected of ‘witchcraft’ beaten to death in Nizamabad, six arrested
The New Indian Express
Six persons were arrested for allegedly beating an elderly man to death after the latter was suspected of indulging in witchcraft, under Navipet police station limits…
A historian brings to life a 17th-century witchcraft panic
The Economist
Malcolm Gaskill paints a moving portrait of life in Springfield, Massachusetts…
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