They observed lingering customs in rural areas of Britain and Ireland and searched medieval texts for evidence that these practices and beliefs had ... of magic and paganism with harvest festivals ...
Birds, especially, have been associated with several Indian gods and goddesses, holding a position of importance in religious and cultural practices. Feeding crows during the period of Shraadh is ...
In the fall of 1973, 73 witches gathered together in Minneapolis. They did not fly in on broomsticks; they did not transmogrify into cats or bats or dogs or wolves. That ’73 conference, organized by ...