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...It’s a very dark production, very dramatic, very black,” says Págan....
...Bowen’s heroine, Norah, moves from London to the countryside after a break-up, where she’s ensnared by a pagan community with designs on her body....
...Next week, in deference to another public day off (the UK’s pagan-inspired May Bank Holiday), the Trade Secrets newsletter will come out on Tuesday....
...Next up are new albums by the Pet Shop Boys (“stripped-down electronic with a cinematic orchestral side”) and Gibbons (“quite pagan Wicker Man folky, quite dark”)....
...Yet in the best-known, post-pagan version of the tale, Baldur stands in for Jesus, symbol of rebirth. All very syncretic. All very Christmassy....
...In Shanghai, Advent has been uncluttered by political dynamics, unlike the pagan festival of Halloween....
...And later, the 17th-century Elisabeth of Bohemia — “the only person I have so far found who has completely understood all my previously published works,” according to René Descartes....
...Some time later, I contacted a Facebook group, the Swansea Pagan Moot, some of whose members had performed rituals in the cave and written poems in honour of the “Red Lady”....
...When I first started in the 1990s, bankers eagerly anticipated bonus announcement day like pagans counting down the days to the annual harvest festival....
...My cousins joked that I was there as the control — if I (someone without any faith, practically a pagan) were to see the statue move, we would all know it was fake....
...I give you pure joy. Look at them until you see them.” To January 28, mnart.museum...
...“Sometimes two days pass before I am able to reach her,” he said. Temperatures are falling and Maher is concerned there is nowhere to buy warm clothes for his children....
...“Sarah is using Pagan Rose to fragrance the stores,” says Yu, when I meet him and Delafon at their Marble Arch office. “It’s the smell of smoked peat moss, with florals breaking through.”...
...I began with everything: artefacts, antiquities, western religious art, relics from ancient civilisations, the Tang terracotta figures, Chinese ceramics, Vietnamese Buddhas, 18th-century Burmese pagan disciples...
...He sent Breton letters describing his “comatose apathy” and indifference to the conflict, though, he wrote, “I object to dying in wartime”....
...Next to the lake, the police found a stack of stones with a pagan rune scratched onto one of them. Jaqui’s parents believe it may have been left there by their daughter....
...Goldfrapp, who sings and co-writes the music, has a performer’s taste for role play, variously appearing in past albums as dance floor dominatrix or pagan folkie....
...On their Facebook page (every modern pagan has one), the group describe themselves as “a fully inclusive pagan group”. This intrigued me. I grew up with quite a broad sense of the divine....
...Some early Christians considered it too pagan, while others encouraged it: in the sixth century, Pope Gregory the Great suggested churches take inspiration from pagan midwinter festivities and deck the religious...
...I have ever seen.”...
...Shellwork stretches back to antiquity, when it was used to decorate Greek and Roman pagan temples....
...Some speculated the chapel stood on the site of an earlier pagan temple that had once crowned this high place....
...The Catholic Church probably only placed St Valentine’s Day in mid-February to supplant pagan festivities. The Eastern Orthodox Church meanwhile celebrates two Saint Valentines in July....
...The archetype of the red squirrel is Ratatoskr, the unreliable messenger of pagan Europe’s World Tree....
...The newsletter takes a break next week for the pagan fertility festival now known as Easter, but will be back on April 17....
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