~Notable Dates~

  

    

October

   

1

Birthday of Isaac Bonewitz, Druid

4

President Reagan signs law proclaiming 1983 "Year of the Bible" and that the Bible is the word of God

7

Birthday of Arnold Crowther (b.1909), a stage magician who was initiated into the Gardnerian Tradition, 1960

9 Sacred to Felicitas, Roman Goddess of good fortune and luck.
12

Birthday of Aleister Crowley, occultist (1875)

Death of Eliphas Levi, ceremonial magician, 1888

13

Jacques de Molay and other French Templars arrested by King Phillip, 1306

15 Sacred to Mars, Roman God of battle.
18 Sacred to Cernunnos, the Pagan Horned God of fertility, wild animals, the forests and hunting.
20

Birthday of Selena Fox, Circle Sanctuary

22

Birthday of Nicholas Culpeper, astrologer and herbalist

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

27

Circle Sanctuary founded, 1974

29

MacGregor Mathers issues manifesto naming himself supreme leader of the Golden Dawn, 1896

30

House-senate conferees drop Helms Amendment barring tax-exempt status to groups that espouse Witchcraft, 1985

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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