http://fluidmorality.wordpress.com/2013/10/29/victim-blame-game/ http://starfosterblog.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/square-gods-we-are-what-we-worship/ http://thespiae.oddmodout.com/2013/10/29/close-but-no-bananas-you-have-no-bananas-today/ So Star Foster has again shown herself to excel at generating controversy. I want to be happy. I want a decent job, a decent paycheck, a decent place to live, and a decent man in my bed. I don’t want to be marginalized, living on the fringes of society, a special […]
Witch Questions 30
30) Do you have an altar? Um, shouldn’t this have come before the previous question? Yes, I have an altar. Would you like to see it? Actually, that is not what my altar looks like at present. Here’s a current view: The devotional shelf on the top (out of frame) is still pretty much the […]
Dying For the Gods
Author: Miranda Aldhouse Green
Publisher: Tempus Publishing
Copyright: 2001
ISBN: 0752419404
Synopsis: Sacrifice, like death, is one of the great taboos of modern society. The notion that human sacrifice, and even cannibalism, could be considered a most holy act is almost inconceivable. Yet the evidence for human sacrifice in northwest Europe, deriving from both archaeology and the testimony of Classical writers of the first centuries BC and AD, has to be confronted. Professor Green puts forward some reasons for ritual murder and shows how the multiple deposits of bog-bodies at sites like Tollund and Lindow illustrate the importance of place in the sacrificial rite. She also highlights the essential role of the priesthood in sacrificial murder.
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Witch Questions 29
29) Favorite altar tool? Murphy’s Oil. It keeps my altar pretty. I got a nice little wine decanter not long ago, and I kind of like that. It lets me keep wine ready on the altar, and kind of signifies it as sacred and distinct from my drinking wine. I’ve also taken to keeping both […]
Celebrating Samhain
I’ve blogged about this before, but several people have asked this year so here is how I celebrate Samhain:(…)
Witch Questions 28
28) Favorite divination tool? My favorite is probably my dice. I have 5 six-sided dice. They are different colored. One is red, one blue, one white, and brown, and one purple. I have given them elemental associations. red and blue should be obvious. White is air, brown is earth, and purple is spirit. So water […]
The Taking of the Sidhe
Why do we offer to the Gods and daoine sidhe?
Not hard to say. When the sons of Mil defeated the Tuatha De Danann the land was divided between the two, with the Milesians taking what was above the earth and the Tuatha De taking(…)
Witch Questions 27
27) Famous witch that you favor? I don’t know what qualifies a famous witch. I have authors that I like. But I don’t know if that’s the same. Although maybe it is, because in this community we tend to turn our authors into celebrities. Because we don’t have much elsewhere to look for them. This […]
Witch Questions 26
26) Favorite website on Witchcraft? Aside from my own? I’m not really sure. I follow a lot of pagan and magic blogs, a lot of which I don’t read as often as I should because I’ve gotten into a period of actually doing the thing instead of reading and writing about it. Check my blogroll […]
Witch Questions 25
25) Favorite book on Witchcraft? You mean aside from Harry Potter? I didn’t do well with Buckland’s Big Blue. I was kind of fond of Ann Moura’s Green Witchcraft series, mostly because it discussed witchcraft outside of a Wiccan context, and I hadn’t seen that before. Of course, the books had some issues, but it […]