Do you believe the original meanings of many festivals have been lost?
THE wheel of the year constantly turning has brought us once more to Hallowe’en, or Samhain (pronounced sow-in), as our Celtic ancestors would have known it.
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WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. (AP) — Halloween is an important time for Wiccans, practitioners of a fast-growing polytheistic religion who recognize the day as the start of their new year.
Followers say the holiday, which they call Samhain, is when the veil between the living and dead is the thinnest.
“It’s a time to let those who have passed know we appreciate your time here and want you to know you are not being forgotten,” said Nicole Ross, 19, of West Bloomfield.
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FLINT – Halloween celebrations go back centuries, and they’re bigger now in the United States than ever before.
But don’t expect moms such as Valerie Fontan of Flushing Township or Anne Bundy of Mt. Morris Township to join in.
Fontan, 37, takes her three young children out of school on Halloween so they are not subjected to Halloween parties. Bundy, 42, a mother of five, home-schools her four school-age children and doesn’t let them participate in Halloween activities.
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EPPING – High Priestess Maria Kay Simms of Kensington spoke to teens Friday about what it really means to be Wiccan as part of Teen Read Week at the Harvey Mitchell Memorial Library.
Simms, an astrologer and author of books including “The Witch’s Circle,” “Time for Magick,” and “Moon Tides, Soul Passages,” said she normally prefers to keep a low profile in the community but chose to speak because of the importance of interested teens understanding the whole concept of Wicca.
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EAST HAVEN — Amid books of spells and sticks of incense, a wooden sign in the front window of SubRosa Magick invites shoppers to “Come in, sit for a spell,” and owner Alicia Folberth hopes they will.
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“We wield remote controls to turn things on and off, make them advance, make them halt. Ground-bound pilots use remotes to fly drone airplanes, soldiers to maneuver battlefield robots.
But manipulating humans?
Prepare to be remotely controlled. I was.
Just imagine being rendered the rough equivalent of a radio-controlled toy car. ”
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