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• Tired of people who don’t care. :( Tired of the harsement. :(

  
  EK's Star Log — Authority: 129
  More harassment from local church members again today. The weather is at -10F right now. It snowed yesterday. And as I have done for the past 4 years, I was out shoveling the snow while wearing sandals and no socks and a summer cotton dress under a silk kimono. These are the only pair of [...]
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• Sorcery Charges On The Rise In Saudi Arabia – NPR

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 158
  Sorcery Charges On The Rise In Saudi ArabiaNPRIn recent months, a Saudi man was arrested for smuggling a book about witchcraft into the country. An Asian man was accused of using his powers to solve …and more »read the full article
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• Three of Orissa family killed on suspicion of ‘witchcraft’ – Sify

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 158
  Three of Orissa family killed on suspicion of witchcraftSifyThree members of a family were killed in Keonjhar district of Orissa on suspicion of practising witchcraft, police said Thursday. Three members of a family …Three of Orissa family killed on suspicion of witchcraftIndia Business Blog (blog)all 8 news ...
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• I Object: Terminology

  
  Songs From The Wood — Authority: 114
  Wicca-derived modern neopagan slang terms like “newbie” and “getting thwapped” have absolutely no place in even moderately reconstructionist pagan religions. “Newbie” is a term implying resentment towards beginners. It’s appropriate in something like online gaming, where beginners can be annoying and in ...
  2 days ago

• Winter Wonderland in Bryant Park

  
  39thandbroadway.com — Authority: 560
  Many of us think of Bryant Park as our go-to summertime lunch spot, but it really comes alive during the Holiday Season. So if you have not been over to BP since the weather turned, now is the time to check it out! First up, if you have been an uber Christmas shopping procrastinator, head over to the Holiday Shops in ...
  2 days ago

• Hi, newbie with potentially annoying question!

  
  MysticWicks Online Pagan Community and Spiritual Sanctuary — Authority: 164
  Hey. Ive been lurking around these forums for a while, learning a great deal. And, well decided I should "de-lurk"! I have a question, but I dont want to annoy anyone. If you find this irritating, please bear in mind this is a real query for me. Ive been a christian for years and I adore my God. I love Jesus ...
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• MidSummer 2009

  
  Aquila ka Hecate — Authority: 118
  Earth On Fire . And indeed, in this locality, this Summer Solstice has been almost unbearably hot. So scorching that the dogs lie, panting, on the tiles indoors, strategically positioning themselves into the path of the one standard fan beating its heart out all day and most of the night. But this morning - ...
  2 days ago

• Jeffrey Burton Russells "Witchcraft in the Middle Ages": Book Review

  
  Blogtrotter — Authority: 120
  An eminent historian of demonology and heresy relates these to this misunderstood and elusive phenomenon. Russell argues for the reality of witches. He shows how they "usually acted as they were supposed to act." That is, the fluidity of definitions applied by medieval clerics and then inquisitors pressured dissenters ...
  4 days ago

• Why is the Holy Spirit so commonly minimized in churches today?

  
  John Burton Ministries : PRAY the REVOLUTION — Authority: 122
  Are we ready for an Acts 2 style outpouring of the Holy Spirit in our churches? There’s an ongoing discussion on my Facebook wall about this issue. I felt it would be   good to broaden the discussion and see what some of you might bring to the table. I’ll paste some of the comments first, and then present ...
  4 days ago

• Top 10 Bizarre Professions in History

  
  A Recruiters Blog — Authority: 125
  Before the industrial era, when there was no electricity,  many jobs that now require no or little labor, were undertaken by humans. This list consists mostly of those jobs which are now extinct. In this list each job contains at least one strange element. As I enjoyed writing about these jobs, lets hope that you ...
  5 days ago

• Bayonetta Brings Witchcraft and Medieval Torture to Consoles – Ps3 Maven (blog)

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 158
  Ps3 Maven (blog)Bayonetta Brings Witchcraft and Medieval Torture to ConsolesPs3 Maven (blog)In the end, we are all surprised and impressed with her witchcraft and her hag-like behaviour which is complemented by her thirst for violence. …read the full article
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• Russell & Alexanders "A History of Witchcraft": Book Review

  
  Blogtrotter — Authority: 120
  This chronologically covers the evolution of what societies perceive as witchcraft. People may deny it, but its widespread, often with similar images and practices assumed in very diverse instances. Witches exist nearly everywhere if in equally varied forms, despite religious and political efforts to eradicate ...
  5 days ago

• Canadian charged with sham witchcraft – AFP

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 158
  AFPCanadian charged with sham witchcraftAFPVishwantee Persaud was charged under a very rarely used section of Canadas criminal code with allegedly pretending to practice witchcraft to convince a man …Rare witchcraft charge laidNational PostToronto Woman Jailed For Being A WitchAHNWoman posed as witch to defraud ...
  6 days ago

• Malaysian Muslim clerics want ban on bla…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 494
  Malaysian Muslim clerics want ban on black magic. Influential cleric Mohamed Tamyes Abdul Wahid, who organised seminar, said laws on black magic should be applied to Muslims as well as the sizable Buddhist, Christian and Hindu minorities in the country. a
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• Control, Influence, and Madeleine LEngle

  
  The Musings of a Confused Man — Authority: 414
  Image by Dana Durell via Flickr While I was blogging yesterday about community, church, and worship my Zemanta plugin suggested a possibly related link with a quote from the author, Madeleine LEngle .  I found part of that quote very interesting: Artists have always been drawn to the wild, wide elements ...
  6 days ago

• Saudi Arabia urged to quash witchcraft death sentence – BBC News

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 158
  BBC NewsSaudi Arabia urged to quash witchcraft death sentenceBBC NewsThe New York-based group Human Rights Watch has called on Saudi Arabia to overturn a death sentence given to a man convicted of practising witchcraft. …Rights group rejects Saudi witchcraft chargesThe Associated PressSAUDI ARABIA: Kingdom steps up ...
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• Saudi Fanatacism Cracking?

  
  Wolf Howling — Authority: 595
  Saudi Arabia, home to the Salafi / Wahhabi version of Sunni Islam, is possibly the most repressive regime on this earth. It is a nation ruled solely by a strict, medieval interpretation of Sharia law. It is a nation where "witches" are regularly executed and women who venture out of doors without a male family ...
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• That animals cant look upwards: George Hakewill, 1608

  
  Early Modern Whale — Authority: 99
  George Hakewill’s THE VANITIE OF THE EYE , First beganne for the Comfort of a Gentlewoman bereaved of her sight, and since upon occasion enlarged & published for the Common good (1608; 1615) does what it says on the title page (at least for those able to read it), opening out the “disputable question ...
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• Witchcraft!

  
  Anonymous Arabist ??? ????? — Authority: 121
  A woman in an allegedly modern country has been charged with witchcraft . Ha ha! We make fun of Saudi Arabia for stuff like this. The charge of practicing witchcraft in Canada’s Criminal Code dates back to 1892 and was filed against 36-year-old Vishwantee Persaud in late November, the Toronto Star reported. ...
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• Waiting for the Third Shoe to Drop

  
  Faerie?Kat's Faerie?Korner — Authority: 129
  Yesterday my Internet modem lost it’s mind – literally!  It just started talking to itself and nobody else.  Not me, not my computer, not the Internet, not Earthlink, and not Brighthouse.  It was unplugged from both electricity and its cable several times and left to ponder the error of its ways for many, many ...
  1 week ago

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