David Thompson grew up in a small town, went to a private school and earned his degree from a Baptist college, where he considered becoming a preacher.

It’s not exactly the background one might expect from the owner of two stores that sell, among other things, supplies for witches, voodoo practitioners and root doctors. (more…)

Switching a Pagan witch with a local motocross racing mom not only makes excellent television, it teaches families what they’re made of.

Stephanie Starling of DeLand was sent to live in Seattle while “fairy goddess” Laura Sweany-Ernst stayed at the Starling house for ABC’s “Wife Swap,” which airs tonight at 8. (more…)

The former burlesque dancer who founded what may be the nation’s most public house of witchcraft 32 years ago in Atlanta is nearing age 70, seriously ailing and living quietly out of state.

But as Lady Sintana, Candace Huntsman Lehrman, who started the Ravenwood Church and Seminary of Wicca at her home near Little Five Points in 1975, remains a revered figure in her Atlanta witches’ coven. The church and seminary was the first tax-exempt pagan religious institution in Georgia. (more…)

British museums have become used to requests that foreign treasures be repatriated. Greece has persistently requested the return of the Parthenon marbles, while some administrators have agreed to return the remains of Australian Aborigines. Now the pressure is coming from closer to home.

British pagan groups are increasingly asking for human remains and grave goods from pre-Christian burials to be returned to them as well. The presence of what they see as their ancestors in dusty drawers or under harsh display lights is an affront to their religion. To them, the bones are living beings, whose existence is bound up with their religious descendants and the sacred land. (more…)