~Notable Dates~ |
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January
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New Year's Day Kwanzaa ends Birthday of Sir James Frazer, author, The Golden Bough |
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3 |
Death of psychic Edgar Cayce, 1945 Sacred to Dionysus, Greek God of wine; feasting, pleasure and fertility. |
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4 |
Aquarian Tabernacle Church registered in Australia, 1994 |
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Epiphany/Twelfth Night Patricia Crowther's radio show, A Spell of Witchcraft, airs in Britain, 1971 1988 - the Circle Sanctuary of Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, USA became the first legally recognized Wiccan Church by local government officials in the world. |
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Birth of MacGregor Mathers, founder of the Golden Dawn, 1854 Dion Fortune dies, 1946 Sacred to Freya, Norse Goddess of love and fertility, and Felicitas, Roman Goddess of good fortune. |
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13 | Final Witchcraft laws repealed in Austria, 1787 | |
14 | Official Confession of Error by jurors of Salem Trials issued, 1696 | |
15 | Martin Luther King, Jr Birthday (observed) | |
16 | Birthday of Dennis Carpenter, Circle Sanctuary | |
19 |
Birthday of Dorothy Clutterbuck, who reportedly initiated Gerald Gardner Sacred to Thor, Norse God of thunder and lightning. |
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20 | Inauguration Day | |
23 | Sacred to Hathor, Egyptian cow-headed Goddess. | |
25 | Birthday of Robert Burns, Scottish poet | |
30 | Birthday of Zsusanna Budapest, feminist Witch | |