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Shop or Temple - witch is it?
Written by Melissa   
Wednesday, 18 June 2008

A BID to set up the UK’s first official Wiccan temple in Reddish is living on a prayer after the Government refused to recognise the building as a genuine place of worship.

Sandra Davis, high priestess at the Crystal Cauldron, on Gorton Road, is appealing the decision she claims is discriminatory.

She applied to have her business - a shop and meeting room - recognised as a temple but this week the General Register Office, part of the Home Office, refused.

A rejection letter, which has left the congregation outraged, stated that Wicca, a form of Paganism, is incompatible with the ancient Places of Worship Act 1855.


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Lawyers join fight against witchcraft
Written by Melissa   
Monday, 21 April 2008

Ranchi, April 18: Lukewarm efforts by the government to strictly implement the Witchcraft Prohibition Act, 2001, has driven Human Rights Law Network (HRLN), a free legal aid body, to act.

Having identified as many as 150 cases of women being mentally and physically tortured in Santhal Pargana districts of Deoghar, Dumka and Giridih alone this year, it now wants to extend legal assistance to the victims.

“We recently held a public hearing in Dumka, where as many as 150 women, who are regularly tortured by their village men or kin, sought legal assistance,” said Kripamani Surin, a lawyer associated with HRLN. She said 24 of these cases are already in Dumka court, but due to lack of legal assistance to them, the culprits continue to walk free.


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17th Century Pagan Rituals
Written by Melissa   
Friday, 14 March 2008

Mysterious pits shed light on forgotten witches of the West

Evidence of pagan rituals involving swans and other birds in the Cornish countryside in the 17th century has been uncovered by archaeologists.

Since 2003, 35 pits at the site in a valley near Truro have been excavated containing swan pelts, dead magpies, unhatched eggs, quartz pebbles, human hair, fingernails and part of an iron cauldron.

The finds have been dated to the 1640s, a period of turmoil in England when Cromwellian Puritans destroyed any links to pre-Christian pagan England. It was also a period when witchcraft attracted the death sentence.


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Witchcraft pardon plea rejected
Written by Melissa   
Wednesday, 05 March 2008
MSPs have rejected calls for the last woman to be convicted under witchcraft legislation to be pardoned.

Helen Duncan, from Callander, served nine months in Holloway prison in 1944 after telling a seance a warship had sunk, before the news was made public.

She was convicted under the Witchcraft Act of 1735 for pretending to exercise or use any kind of "witchcraft" or "sorcery" to tell fortunes.

The call to pardon Mrs Duncan was put before Holyrood's petitions committee.

The petition was rejected unanimously by the committee and follows the same decision by the Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, who refused a similar request last year.


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Bid to gain pardons for 'witches'
Written by Melissa   
Thursday, 28 February 2008
Plea for 'witches' to be pardoned
Campaigners have submitted a petition to the Scottish Parliament calling for the last woman convicted under the Witchcraft Act to be pardoned.

Helen Duncan spent nine months in Holloway prison after being found guilty at a trial in 1944.

She had told a seance a warship had sunk before the news had been officially announced.

A second petition calls for all those convicted under witchcraft legislation in Scotland to be pardoned.

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Both petitions have been organised by a paranormal group, Full Moon Investigations.


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