• At The
Allergic Pagan, a three-part series on Neopaganism in America (link goes to the third part) with a lot of “whatever happened to?”.
• Jason Pitzl-Waters uses the reunion of the band Dead Can Dance (one of my favorites) to look back at the history of Pagan music.
• A new blog devoted to the history of Chicago occultism has me excited, since I will be there in November.
I was also excited to see the Occult Chcago blog come on line. I stumbled upon it via a recent search.
I don’t think many folks are aware there were quite a few thriving occult and magical traditions here in the US even prior to the rise of such in Victorian England.
Good reading about the occult history. The whole celebratory/esoteric battle reminds me of the conflicts between Christian Pentecostals and Catholics.
Poke Runyon’s podcast is also recommended, but lordy does he need to get a better microphone.