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Eric Scott

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Eric Scott was raised in St. Louis by Coven Pleiades, a Wiccan group based in the Alexandrian tradition. His fiction and memoir explore the joys and doubts of being a second-generation Pagan in the modern world. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Missouri. His work has appeared in or is forthcoming in Ashe! Journal, Kerouac's Dog Magazine, Caper Literary Journal, and Witches & Pagans. He is also a Contributing Editor at Killing the Buddha.

Family Traditions

Ancient Lands: Paganism Via Internet

How a Microsoft CD-ROM helped introduce me to Paganism. Read More »

The Lenten Season in St. Louis

When it comes to the Christian afterlife, I doubt I would even qualify for the Virtuous Pagan exemption Dante granted to Cicero and Homer. Read More »

You Can Go Home Again

While I have been writing about being a second-generation pagan, I have been separated from the people who defined that experience for me. Until now. Read More »

Public School Pagan

The real power of the majority is for their views to be so pervasive as to become invisible, for those of us in the minority to not even realize when we're being wronged. Read More »

Haethenra Hyht, or, More Tales of an Almost-Heathen

Any understanding of Heathenry had to pass through not just the mist of centuries, but through the animosity of the scribes -- a reflection of a broken mirror. Read More »

Seidhr, or, How I Became Half a Heathen

I was a Wiccan; I had just begun to discover just how important to my identity Wicca was. Did I want to be a heathen too? For that matter: could I even be both? Read More »

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