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October
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Birthday of Isaac Bonewitz, Druid |
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| 4 |
President Reagan signs law proclaiming 1983 "Year of the Bible" and that the Bible is the word of God |
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Birthday of Arnold Crowther (b.1909), a stage magician who was initiated into the Gardnerian Tradition, 1960 |
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| 9 | Sacred to Felicitas, Roman Goddess of good fortune and luck. | |
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Birthday of Aleister Crowley, occultist (1875) Death of Eliphas Levi, ceremonial magician, 1888 |
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| 13 |
Jacques de Molay and other French Templars arrested by King Phillip, 1306 |
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| 15 | Sacred to Mars, Roman God of battle. | |
| 18 | Sacred to Cernunnos, the Pagan Horned God of fertility, wild animals, the forests and hunting. | |
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Birthday of Selena Fox, Circle Sanctuary |
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| 22 |
Birthday of Nicholas Culpeper, astrologer and herbalist |
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| 26 |
Sybil Leek dies of cancer, 1982 De Molay and 31 other Templars confess to heresy in front of clergy; all later recant their confessions, 1306 |
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| 27 |
Circle Sanctuary founded, 1974 |
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| 29 |
MacGregor Mathers issues manifesto naming himself supreme leader of the Golden Dawn, 1896 |
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| 30 |
House-senate conferees drop Helms Amendment barring tax-exempt status to groups that espouse Witchcraft, 1985 |
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| 31 |
Samhain/Halloween Charter Date for Covenant of the Goddess (COG) New Reformed Orthodox Order of the Golden Dawn (NROOGD) formed, 1967 |
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