Esoteric Source

Everyone curses the tax man, but Romanian witches angry about having to pay up for the first time are planning to use cat excrement and dead dogs to cast spells on the president and government.

Also among Romania’s newest taxpayers are fortune tellers — but they probably should have seen it coming.

Superstitions are no laughing matter in Romania — the land of the medieval ruler who inspired the “Dracula” tale — and have been part of its culture for centuries. President Traian Basescu and his aides have been known to wear purple on certain days, supposedly to ward off evil.

The word Pagan comes from Latin; it means "country dweller." The term was used derogatorily during the Christian conversion period of ancient Rome to refer to the people in the countryside who still adhered to the old traditions of polytheism, said freshman Kassie Cressall, president of the USU Pagan Alliance president.

    Cressall said the term today takes on a positive connotation of people connected to nature, an important source of spirituality and inspiration for Paganistic faiths.

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WITCHES could be stalking the streets of rural Wales – if calls to Dyfed Powys Police are to be believed.

The force, which covers Mid and West Wales, has received 86 reports of witches in the last five years.

It is unknown exactly how many fall victim to scams and cons by "brujeria" (witchcraft) in Costa Rica, only that in San José alone at least 10 criminal complaints are filed each year.

It’s safe to say that Philip Carr-Gomm is the rare man of letters who would admit to reading Playboy for the centrefolds, rather than the articles. His new book, A Brief History of Nakedness, is exactly what it sounds like, complete with numerous photographs such as the one seen above. But rather than providing flimsy justifications for his ogling, the book instead offers a sustained mediation on the spiritual, cultural and political implications of being naked in public.

A "WITCH" told a traffic cop she was above the law because she was "from another world" before dragging him at high speed down a busy street.

He may no longer be writing an opera with Gorillaz, but for his next trick, the magician, psychedelic adventurer and occasional comics creator has a different musical project up his sleeve.

An ailing Lee County hotelier, Enzo Vincenzi, worried about his finances and stomach problems looked in the Yellow Pages in 2007 under herbs. He found the Botanica 7 Potensias Africanas shop in Fort Myers and sought treatment, reports The Naples Daily News.

Thousands of Haitians have flocked to a hilltop voodoo festival, offering a special prayer to the spirits to find them new homes and ease their plight six months after a massive quake.

After four long years of being denied religious property status, a landmark court battle over a cloister of pagan witches is brewing.

New Agers and neo-pagans descended on Stonehenge to celebrate the summer solstice, each hoping to catch a glimpse of the sun as it rises above the ancient stone circle early Monday morning.

A Snohomish County jury took just two hours to find a Gold Bar man guilty Friday of the gruesome witchcraft-fueled murder and dismemberment of his ex-girlfriend in January.

Word has come to us that noted Celtic scholar, linguist, and author Alexei Kondratiev passed away last night due to an apparent heart attack.

A Senate panel narrowly approved legislation Tuesday whose supporters say reaffirms constitutional guarantees of freedom of religious expression.

Most people would have walked right by the small rock sprinkled with orange dust. But Farel Paul became paralyzed with fear. He was convinced someone cast a voodoo spell on him by leaving the rock by his car door.

EPPING Forest District Museum is creating a witch hunt for its next exhibition. The museum, in Sun Street, Waltham Abbey, has joined forces with the Renaissance in the Regions group to present an exhibition on the East Anglian witch hunt of 1645-7.

That the nation's police force should be entitled to days off is beyond question. That their personal practices should come under scrutiny, that they may be extending their weekend to walk labryinths, drink mead or dance skyclad while chanting at the elements, seems a little more suspect.

Police officers have been given the right to take days off to dance naked on the solstices, celebrate fertility rituals and burn Yule logs if they profess pagan beliefs.

Wannabe teenage witches are being blamed for sinister signs and symbols springing up around the ancient sacred site at St Anthony’s Well.

In his 64 years Jon Turk has explored the Arctic by boat and dogsled; kayaked around Patagonia and Cape Horn; bicycled through Central Asia; and in an epic two-year journey, sailed and paddled from Japan north through the Kuril Islands and along the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula to Alaska.

As underground campaigns intensify ahead of the 2011 Elections, the Ethics and Integrity Minister has warned of the danger that belief in witchcraft poses to the country’s political destiny.

It’s been more than 1,500 years since fires were lit on hilltops to welcome the summer. MICHAEL HARDING climbed Uisneach in Westmeath to witness the tradition return.

Magus Lynius Shadee will not stand in general election saying the occult provides "much more pleasure" than politics.