The Unapologetic Pagan

In 1659 the Puritans banned Christmas in Massachusetts. But why?

A short, easily-overlooked paragraph from an early law book of the Massachusetts Bay Colony reads as follows:

On Saturday December 5th a memorial service was held for Larry Daniel Kaufman, a  42 year old practicing Wiccan who was killed by jihadist Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik while at his job at the Inland Regional Center for people with disabilities in San Bernardino .

He was in the facility when the attack began. Concerned for his co-workers he yelled “Get out! Go! Get out now! Hurry!”Shoving people out of the line of fire before taking a round and his life ended.

According to Kaufman’s surviving partner Ryan Reyes, he saved 4 people’s lives that day.

A woman in Dillsboro NC, Giovanna Sforza, received Eight boxes she had shipped and immediately noticed something was wrong.

“Six of the eight boxes of books were damaged badly. They had been ripped open along entire sides of the box and the contents obviously had been exposed and put back in the boxes and taped back together by the post office. When I received some of the boxes, there were still entire sides wide open,” said Sforza

The ancient Greek phrase “ΕΛΘΕ ΜΟΙ Ω ΠΑΙΑΝ ΦΕΡΩΝ ΤΟ ΜΑΝΤΕΙΟΝ ΑΛΗΘΕC” is written on the mouth of a well that came to light during the latest excavations of the German Archaeological Institute at the archaeological site of Kerameikos in Athens.

The invocation phrase seems to have been addressed to Apollo, the ancient Greek god of prophecy, while the well was probably used in some kind of hydromancy rituals during the early Roman times.