~Notable Dates~ |
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July
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Death of Nostradamus, 1566 |
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3 |
Trial of Joan Prentice, who was accused of sending an imp in the form of a ferret to bite children, 1549 |
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Independence Day |
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5 |
Conviction of Witches at Chelmsford, England, 1589 Sacred to Maat, Egyptian Goddess of wisdom and justice. |
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6 |
Scott Cunningham initiated into the Ancient Pictish Gaelic Way, 1981 |
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Death of Herman Slater, proprietor of the store Magickal Childe in New York, 1992 Birthday of Amber K, Wiccan author |
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11 | Sacred to the Greek God Kronos, Father of Time. | |
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Birthday of Dr John Dee and Dr Margaret Murray. Sacred as the birthdate of Osiris, Egyptian God of fertility and harvests. |
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14 |
First recorded appearance of crop circles on Silbury Hill, England, 1988 |
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17 |
First airing of The Witching Hour, a Pagan radio show on WONX in Evanston, Illinois, 1992 |
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19 |
Rebecca Nurse hanged in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692 Sacred as the birth date of Isis, Egyptian Great Goddess. |
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21 |
Lord Hunterford executed in England for treason for consulting Mother Roche, a Witch, and speculating on the king's death, 1540 |
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22 |
Northamptonshire Witches condemned, 1612 |
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25 |
Death of Pope Innocent III, who issued famous anti-Witchcraft bull Summis Desiderantes Affectibus, 1492 |
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26 |
Confession of Witches at first of four major Witch trials in Chelmsford, England, 1566 |
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John Preston becomes the first of the "Malkin Tower" Witches to be hanged, 1612. Sacred to Hatshepsut, Egyptian Goddess of healing. |
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Agnes Waterhouse hanged, 1566; one of the Chelmsford Witches tried in the first major trial after the institution of the Elizabethan statute against Witchcraft. |
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30 |
Trial of Marion la Droituriere for employing Margot de la Barre to make her ex-lover impotent with his new wife, 1390; one of the first trials of lower-class women for ritual magic |
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31 |
Birthday of HP Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society Brithday of Ellen Evert Hopman, Druid herbalist |
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