Author: Tom Kennedy

Source: Brant News

Author: Amy Lavalley

Source: Post-Tribune

http://www.post-trib.com/news/2307834,vmayfair0524.article

Lizz Frenzel was drawn to the first May Faire Sunday at Taltree Arboretum and Garden because of the maypole.

Fresh from a trip to the Bavarian region of Germany, Frenzel, of Valparaiso, saw maypoles in many of the small towns, though she missed the May 1 celebration of the ancient tradition there.

Frenzel also is a weaver and is...

Author: Juliana Reyes

Source: The Bi-College News

http://www.biconews.com/?p=24581

It’s a Thursday night in Thomas 223 and Athena’s Circle, Bryn Mawr’s pagan club, is having its weekly meeting.

The club’s head, senior Olivia Coplan, sits on the couch at the back of the classroom, near the windows. She admits to the 12 students around the table that she has nothing planned for tonight. At the beginning of the semester, the club creates a...

Author: Sean O'Neill and Richard Ford

Source: The Times

Author: Christine Morgan Arceneaux

Source: The Advocate

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/93215334.html

Jessica Zebrine Gray, a high priestess of Spiritwheel Coven in Baton Rouge and devotee of a blend of Tibetan Buddhism and Wicca, invited members attending Saturday’s gathering at Gryphon’s Nest Campground Inc., to join in a circle.

“We honor and recognize that the elements are all around us, all the time,” Gray told...

Author: Sue Gyford

Source: Scotsman

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Festival-fights-fire-with-fire.6266950.jp

A feast of flames, flesh and fertility came to Calton Hill with the annual Beltane Fire Festival.
Organisers estimated that 11,000 people flocked to the hill for the pagan-inspired celebration last night, watching 350 performers in costumes and body paint dance and drum the hours away.

As night fell...

Author: Mirko Petricevic

Source: The Record

http://news.therecord.com/Life/faith/article/704679

Like many Waterloo Region residents, Tiffany Lazic plans to be knuckle-deep in soil today.

But unlike many of the green thumbs grooming their gardens, Lazic will be tilling the land with holiness on her mind.

“I’ll be … honouring the spark of life that is really starting to kindle in the ground,” Lazic said.

...

Author: Rosa Belerique

Source: Daily Titan

http://www.dailytitan.com/2010/04/04/pagan-club-gaias-titans-brings-religious-diversity-to-campus/

“An it harm none, do as you will,” is the golden rule of the Wiccan faith, said Hayley Arrington, 25, anthropology major and founder of Gaia’s Titans, the on-campus Wiccan/Pagan club.

Paganism and Wicca are both Earth-based religions,...

Author: Lance Benzel

Source: Colorado Springs Gazette

http://www.gazette.com/articles/academy-96589-air-force.html

Air Force Academy officials said today they may never know who left a large wooden cross at the campus’ recently constructed Earth-centered worship circle – or why.

Investigators closed their probe into the Jan. 17 incident a little more than a month after it began, saying they exhausted efforts to find...

Author: Carole Terrell

Source: Citizen-Times

http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20100319/LIVING/303190029

After making it through the harsh winter, people in Western North Carolina are looking forward to the warm sun of spring. Some are preparing to celebrate the season's change with an ecumenical ritual.

Saturday officially marks the first day of spring, being the day of the spring equinox.

Members of Mother Grove...

Author: Kris Bradley

Source: Boston Examiner

http://www.examiner.com/x-26373-Domestic-Witchery-Examiner~y2010m3d17-New-Jersey-State-Board-of-Education-approves-PaganWiccan-holidays-for-the-20102011-school-year

This morning, the New Jersey Board of Education voted to approve their list of religious holidays permitting pupil absence from...

Author: Lanz Christian Bañes

Source: Vallejo Times Herald

http://www.timesheraldonline.com/news/ci_14628847

For Gared Nickas, good fortune is in the cards -- literally.

"She told me this one can fill up," said the 7 year old from Sonoma as he pointed to a mini Tarot card with a single large cup.

The good tidings were hard earned, as Gared was one of a dozen or so children scrambling to find them hidden in plastic eggs Saturday at the...

Author: Mary Garrigan

Source: Rapid City Journal

http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/lifestyles/article_a891c09c-29ae-11df-b729-001cc4c002e0.html

If the only thing you know about the Asatru religion is that a convicted killer lost his legal bid for a plastic sword so he could practice it at the South Dakota State Penitentiary, then Harold Chant has an invitation for you.

Chant, of Rapid City, is hosting...

Author: Rich Freedman

Source: Vallejo Times Herald

http://www.timesheraldonline.com/ci_14518130

Nobody's getting burned at the stake. No one's flying around the Benicia Clocktower on a broom. And there won't likely be a curse cast on anyone questioning the admission charge.

Dispelling myths is one purpose of Saturday's 2nd Annual Witches' Ball sponsored by The Pagan Alliance.

"It would be easier to put on Pagan events in Berkeley or San...

Author: Lee Rood

Source: The Des Moines Register

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A Guthrie Center teacher this week received a five-day unpaid suspension for insubordination for not allowing a student to build a Wiccan altar in his shop class - discipline he said he still doesn't agree with.

Dale Halferty, who has taught industrial arts at Guthrie Center High School for three years, said he was asked to meet...