Sunday 30 October 2016

News: Demonic Vegetables, Pagans, Samhain, Witches

"A Guide to the Demons Found in Your Bowl of Spaghetti" - story at Munchies_ Food by VICE: https://munchies.vice.com/en/articles/a-guide-to-the-demons-found-in-your-bowl-of-spaghetti

"Pagan Christmas and Secular Samhain" - story at Kensington Chelsea and Westminster Today: http://www.kcwtoday.co.uk/2016/10/pagan-christmas-secular-samhain-halloween/

"For Hallowe'en ... meet Scotland's witches" - story at Herald Scotland: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/15801996d4056f63

"Halloween: Sacred Link To Our Native British Spiritual Inheritance" - story at UFODigest: http://ufodigest.com/content/halloween-sacred-link-our-native-british-spiritual-inheritance

"Witches of America: how I became immersed in a growing movement" - story at The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/oct/29/witches-of-america-alex-mar-pagan-witchcraft

"Samhain 2016: Traditions And Rituals For The Pagan New Year" - story at Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/samhain-2016-traditions_us_5813717be4b064e1b4b1eff6

And a sensationalist story that I find pretty hard to believe, because in my experience pagans in the UK are simply not interested in going into churches at Halloween. We are too busy honouring our ancestors at our festival of Samhain:

"Church cash to fend off jihadis... and witches: Hundreds take out government funding to protect themselves against pagans during Halloween" - story at mail online: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3886006/Church-cash-fend-jihadis-witches-Hundreds-government-funding-protect-against-pagans-Halloween.html

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