Since my visit to the Bronze Age exhibition in Leiden last winter, I'm adding some new information about this era to my website. One very interesting subject is a relatively new find of the solar observatory near the Dutch town of Tiel, which you can read about more here. The observatory has popularly been dubbed … Continue reading Possible ancient precursor to the Wiccan wheel of the year? Also, happy summer solstice!
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Inspirational fire: pagan voices, inspiration, and action
This blog is a rather quiet place. The world outside is not, hell, it seems to be on fire lately. I therefore feel that my little corner of the internet needs an update, to get by with the times. This website has mostly been about the history of paganism in what we now call the … Continue reading Inspirational fire: pagan voices, inspiration, and action
Witch hunts are not of the distant past
I just finished the Dutch translation of Monica Black’s A Demon-haunted land: witches, wonder doctors, and the ghosts of the past in post-WWII Germany. Up until then I thought that Western belief in witches in the twentieth century and later was either based on wicca or based on individual cases of wise women or cunning … Continue reading Witch hunts are not of the distant past
Heksen in Holland – upcoming documentary by Silver Circle
I learned through the Wild Hunt website, that Silver Circle is working on a documentary about Wicca in the Netherlands. To be more precise, they have started an Indiegogo campaign to help fund this project. Silver Circle is the best known wiccan group in the Netherlands, and they formed exactly 35 years ago.To celebrate this, … Continue reading Heksen in Holland – upcoming documentary by Silver Circle
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