~Notable Dates~

  

    

February

   

2

Imbolc/Candlemas

Leo Martello becomes a third degree Witch traditionalist, 1973

6 Sacred to Aphrodite, Greek Goddess of love.
7

Death of Thomas Aquinas, Catholic scholar who wrote that heresy was a product of ignorance and therefore criminal, and refuted the Canon Episcopi, 1274

8

Birthday of Evangeline Adams, American astrologer

9 Sacred to Apollo, Greek God of the sun, music and prophecy.
10

Zsusanna Budapest arrested and later convicted for fortune telling, 1975

Sacred to Anaitis, Persian Goddess of the Moon.

12

Gerald Gardner, founder of the Gardnerian Tradition, dies of heart failure, 1964

13

Death of Cotton Mather, minister at Salem Witch trials, 1728

14

Valentine's Day

Else Blum, a farmhand from Oberstedten, sentenced to death for Witchcraft, 1652

15

Pope Leo X issues bull to ensure that secular courts would execute those convicted of Witchcraft by the Inquisition, 1521

17 Sacred to Kali, Hindu Goddess of death and life.
19

President's Day, observed

20

Society for Psychical Research, devoted to paranormal studies, founded in London, 1882

21

Stewart Farrar is initiated, 1970

Death of Theodore Parker Mills, Wiccan Elder

Birthday of Trish Telesco, Wiccan author

22

Birthday of Sybil Leek, astrologer and Witch (1923-1983)

Birthday of ShadowCat, Wiccan author

27 Mardi Gras/Fat Tuesday
28

Ash Wednesday

Sacred to the many forms of the Earth Goddess - Demeter, Ceres and Gaia.

   

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