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October 2012

October 26, 2012
In October 1965 Pentagram sponsored a dinner at which Doreen Valiente was the keynote speaker....
October 24, 2012
I’ve had to decide whether to write about Raymond Buckland next or Joe Wilson. Ray...
October 23, 2012
Just to be through, I'm concluding this prefatory series with three groups that have been...
October 22, 2012
The Hollywood Coven  The Hollywood Coven was founded in 1967 by E. Tanssan of Hollywood,...
October 21, 2012
I had been planning to post next or soon a blog about Ozark Witchcraft, but...
October 20, 2012
J. Gordon Melton's files, in the library of the University of California at Santa Barbara,...
October 18, 2012
  One day in about 1971, Larry and Catherine, two of the founding members of...
October 13, 2012
In his travels, Hansen encountered more Traditional Witches than probably anyone else had in the...
October 12, 2012
In his autobiographic essay, Hansen relates that in about 1955, through a series of “coincidences”...
October 11, 2012
 [This begins the first chapter of my forthcoming A Tapestry of Witches: A History of...
October 08, 2012
Boedromion 23: The final events at Eleusis included the rite of the Plemochoai, top-shaped vases,...
October 07, 2012
Boedromion 22 The central event in the Mysteries is the night-long ritual in the Telesterion,...
October 06, 2012
On the day of the 20th and on through the 21st, the mustai are taken...
October 05, 2012
At sunset, when the next day begins, torches are lit, and because the Greeks used...
October 04, 2012
Early in the day the mustai, the Eleusinian officials, and all others gather in the...
October 02, 2012
The mustai remain indoors, preparing the Kykeon, "mixture," a tea of barley and mint, and...
October 01, 2012
Boedromion 17: A sow is officially sacrificed to the Two Goddesses in their temple in Athens. ...

September 2012

September 30, 2012
Boedromion 16, the sixth day of Full Moon and the second day of the Mysreries,...
September 29, 2012
Professor Robert Mattheisen has again sent me a link concerning the controversy about the papyrus...
September 28, 2012
Today preparations for the Eleusinian Mysteries begin. A troop of epheboi, essentially an honor guard...
September 26, 2012
I'm working on a long post about the fragment of papayrus, announced by Professor Karen...
September 21, 2012
One of the most peculiar features of Stonehenge is a small circle of holes tangential...
September 20, 2012
Today, in the Athenian calendar, was the fifth day of the month of Boedromion, the...
September 17, 2012
There is a city under the North sea. It was the center of European civilization...
September 08, 2012
Given the commonality of the basic Gardnerian liturgical pattern, it is useful to propose a...
September 07, 2012
I. Conjuration of the Charging Oil I conjure salt for savor, I conjure oil for...
September 04, 2012
A copy of this document had been in a library since late in the nineteenth...
September 03, 2012
Now it’s time to let you see some of the most interesting and easiest to...

August 2012

August 31, 2012
I hope you were able to hang with the personal history in Part I. It’s...
August 28, 2012
As I recall, I first read about the existence of Gnosticism in about 1971 or...
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