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Around the Pagan Blogosphere, 25 August 2013 26 Aug 2013 | 01:41 am
Some bookmarked links are piling up, so let’s clear them away. ¶ Lee Morgan: What happens when a writing project turns mysteriously magical: It wasn’t long before the story, its characters and under...
Parking Lot Polytheism 26 Aug 2013 | 01:29 am
Photo from PeopleofWalmart.com Meeting the priestess might be . . . interesting. (Original source.)
“Please Don’t Blog Your Book” 25 Aug 2013 | 07:59 am
From an interesting post by Anne Hill, chock full o’ links, called “How to Blog and When Not to Blog,” I was led to this one by Jane Friedman, “Please Don’t Blog Your Book.” In other words, most plan...
Paganism Coming in from the Cold? 23 Aug 2013 | 08:58 am
British SF writer Liz Williams explores the social position of “paganism” (yeah, the Brits can’t find the shift key) at The Guardian and asks if we are coming in from the cold. In essence, Pagans are...
Blog Carnival of Animism 23 Aug 2013 | 03:42 am
The August animist blog carnival had the there of Birds, and you can find it linked on Animist Jottings here. There is quite a bit there, so go visit.
Keep the Weird in the the West 21 Aug 2013 | 04:44 am
Indianapolis blogger Roberta X muses on the literary sub-genre known as “Weird West.” Sometimes that means sort of H. P. Lovecraft-meets-Wyatt Earp, sometimes other things. My introduction was the o...
New Article on Polish Paganism 21 Aug 2013 | 04:12 am
Via Scott Simpson, who is quoted in it, “Pre-Christian Slavic Beliefs are on the Rise in Poland” (PDF file), from the Krakow Post. “The native faith movement as a whole is loosely organised and doesn...
A Medical Origin for Norse Monsters? 18 Aug 2013 | 09:30 pm
This is what happens when a parasitologist/archaeologist muses on the origin of mythology. It gets interesting at about the 6:30-minute point. And this is a very famous turd in English archaeology.
Druid Sex Magic 17 Aug 2013 | 12:28 pm
Many things come to mind when I think of Druids, but sex magic is not one of them. Silly me. I did not know about “fundamentals of Celtic sex magic,” etc. Actually, Ronald Hutton was planning to put...
On the Keeping of Pet Hermits and Druids 17 Aug 2013 | 03:50 am
Some of the eighteenth-century hermits employed by rich landowners were in fact characterized as “Druids.” Campbell clearly had fun with his quest for real hermits. At Hawkstone in Shropshire, a bare...
