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Just for the record (a rant)

Published on March 16, 2012, by in Confessions.

Dear journalists, It would be lovely if you could try, for once, to represent modern witchcraft and paganism of the western world realistically.  Articles are published on a daily basis, often in the national press, written by people that have either no knowledge on the subject or simply don’t care.  Poorly researched information might sell

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Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch to Live – Part 2

Published on June 15, 2011, by in Confessions.

King James was married by proxy on 20th August 1589 to Anne, sister of the King of Denmark.  Ten days after the wedding, the 14 year old left Denmark to begin her new life, and to see her groom for the first time. A series of misadventures saw the royal fleet being forced back to

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Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch to Live – Part 1

Published on June 14, 2011, by in Confessions.

Recently there have been  broomsticks and bibles clashing over a faith blog competition, with quite a few nasty words being thrown about in anything but a faith-like manner. If you had to name just one point in the Bible which hinders relations between Pagans and Christians it is: Thou shalt not suffer a witch to

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Witches And Why We Hunt Them

Published on March 30, 2011, by in Confessions.

Historically we can look back and see there are two reasons why witches were hunted. First there were political reasons with the Catholic church hell bent on removing any person who may be in opposition to them. Witches were a threat because they knew ways of healing, midwifery and folk magick. Too much knowledge in

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H is for Henry, Saviour of English Witches

Published on September 7, 2010, by in Confessions.

I’m talking about Henry VIII – the larger than life, 6 times wed, lover of the axe monarch. I’ve always thought Henry Tudor was a scoundrel.  Chopping off people’s heads will give you that type of reputation.  And I’ve been mad at him for the dissolution of the monasteries because all I get to see

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Goblins and Witches

Published on July 8, 2010, by in Confessions.

In the world of the weird and wonderful (and what a place to be lol!) a nurses’ clinic in Zimbabwe has been closed for 2 weeks because the nurses are terrified of a goblin attack. Traditional leaders had to get an exorcist to get rid of the little, supernatural critters.  They used the services of

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