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April
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April Fool's Day Weatherwax's (My) birthday |
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Birthday of Harry Houdini, stage magician |
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| 7 |
Church of All Worlds founded, 1972 First Wiccan tract published by Pete Pathfinder, 1996 |
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| 8 |
William Alexander Aynton initiated into the Golden Dawn, 1896 |
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| 9 | Sacred to the spirit of the Amazon. Invoke Artemis, the Greek Goddess of the Moon and Hunt, during ritual and ask her to empower you. | |
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Birthday of Montague Summers, 1880; four hundred years after the publication of the Malleus Maleficarum, he called its authors, "brilliant". |
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| 12 |
Handfasting of Oberon and Morning Glory Zell, 1974 |
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| 13 |
First confession of Witchcraft by Isobel Gowdie, whose case is unusual because she confessed without torture, Scotland, 1662 Sacred to Libertas, Roman Goddess of liberty. |
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| 14 |
Adaptation of the Principles of Wiccan Belief at the "Witch Meet" in St Paul, Minnesota, 1974 |
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Birthday of Margot Adler, author of Drawing Down the Moon |
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Aleister Crowley breaks into the Golden Dawn temple, providing the catalyst for the demise of the original Golden Dawn, 1900 |
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| 19 |
Conviction of Witches at second of four famous trials at Chelmsford, England, 1579 |
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| 22 | Earth Day. A day to do something for Gaia, Mother Earth. | |
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Edward III of England begins the Order of the Garter, which Margaret Murray later links to Witchcraft, 1350 |
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USA Today reports that Patricia Hutchins is the first military Wiccan granted religious leave for the sabbats, 1989 |
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| 29 |
Birthday of Ed Finch, Wiccan author Pagan Tree Day. Plant a tree in honour of your favourite Pagan Goddess and/or God. |
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| 30 |
Beltane Walpurgis Night, traditionally the night when German Witches gather on the Blocksberg. Alex Sanders, founder of the Alexandrian tradition, dies of lung cancer, 1988 |
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