Pagan Tama
Top stories of the week in Paganism and Shinto:
- Spain: Catalonia pardons women executed for ‘witchcraft’
- UK: Scots call cops on woman who cleaned ancient shrine amid fears she could unleash a curse
- Kyoto shrine hosts “kemari” football game for 1st time in 2 years
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Pagan News
UK: Scots call cops on woman who cleaned ancient shrine amid fears she could unleash a curse
The Scottish Sun
Some predict the stranger’s behaviour at the Clootie Well on the Black Isle, just outside Inverness, goes against tradition and risks the safety of the community…
US: Stormy Daniels’ religious beliefs under scrutiny as federal trial against Avenatti begins
Religion News Service
Daniels produces and stars in “Spooky Babes,” a TV show about paranormal activity, including ghost sightings and haunted places. She is also a tarot reader, medium and energy worker…
UK: Mother of strangled six-year-old boy ‘had an interest in murders and unsolved crime’, court hears
Sky News
The mother of a six-year-old boy who was strangled and then placed, naked, into a star shape was allegedly writing a murder story and had an interest in witchcraft, a court has been told…
US: Temple of Witchcraft documentary soon to be released
The Wild Hunt
The Temple of Witchcraft (ToW) which was co-founded by Christopher Penczak, Steve Kenson, and Adam Sartwell in 1998, announced earlier this month the production of a documentary about their organization…
UK: ‘World’s most haunted house’ has bones, mummified cat and signs of ‘Pagan ritual killing’
Daily Star
The owner of what’s been called the ‘world’s most haunted house’ claims she has found human bones, daggers and even a mummified cat in the time she has lived there…
Pagan roots of St. Brigid’s Well in the West of Ireland
Irish Central
St. Brigid’s Well in Liscannor, County Clare is one of the oldest wells in Ireland and legends say that it has healing powers…
Glastonbury Festival: How low-flying swans set Worthy Farm’s Sacred Space in stone 30 years ago
Somerset Live
The Worthy Farm Stone Circle is a magical megalith every festivalgoer needs to visit at least once…
Shinto news
Kyoto shrine hosts “kemari” football game for 1st time in 2 years
Kyodo News
Dressed in colorful aristocratic robes and hats, “mariashi” players entertained visitors to Kyoto’s Shimogamo Shrine earlier this month with the year’s first game of “kemari,” an ancient football game resembling “keepy-uppy,” the objective of the game being to keep the ball in the air…
Mountain burning event heralds spring in Japan’s ancient capital Nara
The Mainichi
The annual mountain burning event that heralds the arrival of spring in this ancient Japanese capital was held on the night of Jan. 22, setting the area aglow…
How a cluster broke out at a Tokyo shrine
NHK World
The first cluster infection in Tokyo caused by the Omicron variant was confirmed at a Shinto shrine early in the New Year…
Pokemon are not animals, they are kami
Game Rant
Western audiences have misunderstood the nature of Pokemon ever since the first game, as they are linked to Shintoism and Japanese culture…
Other News
British Museum hails ‘homecoming’ of world’s oldest map of the stars
The Independent
The British Museum has welcomed the “homecoming” of the Nebra Sky Disc which features Cornish gold to their Stonehenge exhibition…
Spanish town welcomes back pagan monster ‘Carantoñas’ after pandemic break
Euronews
This year saw the return of the ‘Carantoñas’ to a small Spanish town in the continuation of a centuries old pagan tradition interrupted by the pandemic…
Top 10 novels inspired by Greek myths
The Guardian
From James Joyce to Ali Smith and Chigozie Obioma, the archetypal stories of the ancients have inspired some of our best fiction…
‘Witch Hunts’ Past & Present
Catalonia pardons women executed for witchcraft
BBC
The Catalan regional parliament has formally pardoned hundreds of women executed for witchcraft between the 15th and 18th centuries…
UK: Scots ‘witches’ executed 300 years ago ‘had Lymes disease’ as ‘tick sores mistaken for devil’s mark’
Daily Record
Women who were branded ‘witches’ and executed in Scotland over 300 years ago suffered Lymes disease, a historian has claimed…
Malawi: Mob kills three elderly persons over ‘witchcraft’ allegations in Nkhata Bay
Malawi24
A mob in Nkhata Bay has killed three elderly persons in the district over accusations that they killed a teacher using ‘witchcraft’…
Ghana: Accused of ‘witchcraft’, hundreds of women banished to camps
France24
Ghana is one of the last countries in the world that still has camps for “witches”…
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