In Pure Spirit

Where do you buy good looking candles when you want to put something beautiful and appropriate into a ritual? It can be a challenge and it’s certainly the true that we don’t all have the time, space or ability to make our own. The craft site Etsy can be on solution. Take a look at [...]

America’s Transportation Security Administration (aka the TSA) had an interesting HR issue on their hands when one employee compained because she feared another employee might cast a spell on her. Carole Smith, the Wiccan, had worked for the TSA for 7 months, was still a probationary employee but was in the top 10% of for [...]

Dave Mustaine, vocalist for the rock band Megadeth, now refuses to play the The Conjuring live. The singer has become a strict Christian and wishes to put his experimental past behind him. Mustaine claims that the song The Conjuring is laden with black magic spells and occult imagery. Mustaine admits to being fascinated with witchcraft [...]

Summer solstice in Pendle this year will feature the Pendle Witch Camp but not a Shamania Festival.

The Pendle Witch Camp is due to be held in the field adjacent to last year’s event. Last year the events took place at Brown House Farm which is just off Giburn Old Road and this year it will be at Blacko.

The Pendle Witch Camp in 2009 will be significantly quieter than the Shamania festival of 2008. There will be no activities which require Pendle Council granting a license although organisers have not yet suggested they were facing difficulties in obtaining licenses.

It’s a debate. If your girlfriend or boyfriend is Wiccan and not Christian do you treat them with something for Valentine’s Day?

Many people would argue that a Valentine’s Day gift is a nice and thoughtful gesture irrespective of religion. Others may note that the modern Valentine’s day is a reinvention fueled by the greeting card companies and that the feastday of Saint Valentine was removed from the Roman Catholic Calendar of Saints in 1969 simply because nothing other than a burial location is known of Saint Valentine.

Here at In Pure Spirit we think the 14th of February is a good day to buy a little gift for someone you care a lot for. It doesn’t have to be called a Valentine’s Day gift.

Image by dawn_perry via Flickr Sadly very little information about the ancient Celts has survived and what we know is pieced together from fragments, second hand and bias sources. It is believed that the ancient Celtics followed a lunar calendar. As a result the ancient calendar would have had 12 months one year and 13 [...]

Liverpool’s Central Library is a complex set of buildings, some of which are grade II listed and others due for demolition and replacement. The library’s eldest building is the William Brown Library and Museum, which was extended in 1879 to the Picton Reading Room and then the Hornby Library in 1906.

Central Library is part of the William Brown Street conservation area. This area includes the unusual St John’s Gardens and St John’s Church.

St John’s Church was designed by Thomas Litoller and construction started in 1767 in an area which was once used as the general burial ground of a small mortuary chapel. St George’s Hall’s west elevation backs against the Church.

Image by Arcadiareptiles via Flickr An athame is a double-edged dagger used in Wiccan ceremonies. The athame traditionally has a black handle, a sharp point and the double-edge. The knife is one of many tools used in Wiccan rituals is used to channel energy and is not intended for physical cutting. Athames tend not even [...]

Rituals and mediation are often best done while refreshed, clean and calm. It is common place for baths to be taken before any such activity and it is especially common the herbs and incense to be used. Once the herbs have infused the warm bath waters they easily transfer onto the body. The following list [...]

The Coven Who thinks witches are scary now? In Pure Spirit This photograph was uploaded to Flickr under Creative Commons by vige.