{"id":12617,"date":"2021-12-10T16:21:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T23:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12617"},"modified":"2021-12-10T16:29:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T23:29:55","slug":"waelcyrge-or-witchcraft-identifying-heathendom-in-late-anglo-danish-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12617","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;W\u00e6lcyrge or Witchcraft: Identifying Heathendom in late Anglo-Danish England&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/isMc9kJ0Jyo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">?<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Just one of many presentations from the just-finished online conference\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLRKkks3NwfVwBcPwwNNrgsYlNG5ETxAne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <em>Performing Magic in the pre-Modern North<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here, Ross Downing deals with such issues as whether witchcraft and Heathenry were defined differently in the time of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alfred_the_Great\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">King Alfred the Great<\/a> in the late 9th century, including details as the execution of condemned witches as well as animals accused of being witches&#8217; familiars (although that was not the Anglo-Saxon term), including ethnic and gender issues in witchcraft accusations.<\/p>\n<p>These all look fascinating, and I will have to watch three a week to finish by Candlemas. <a href=\"https:\/\/performingmagicinthepremodernnorthconference.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more about the conference<\/a>, which focused on Scandinavian but here includes Anglo-Saxon and Danish-ruled England.<\/p>\n<p><strong>There is an enormous amount of material <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLRKkks3NwfVwBcPwwNNrgsYlNG5ETxAne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here, and it is all free at this time.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>? Just one of many presentations from the just-finished online conference\u00a0 Performing Magic in the pre-Modern North. Here, Ross Downing deals with such issues as whether witchcraft and Heathenry were defined differently in the time of King Alfred the Great in the late 9th century, including details as the execution of condemned witches as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[414,21,393,134,299,5,29],"class_list":["post-12617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anglo-saxon-england","tag-england","tag-middle-ages","tag-norse","tag-pagan-studies","tag-paganism","tag-witchcraft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-3hv","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1927,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1927","url_meta":{"origin":12617,"position":0},"title":"A Ritual Against Hitler That Really Happened?","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"October 26, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Via the Pagan Newswire Collective (should I just have a dateline with \"PNC\" in it?) comes this link to a witchcraft ritual reportedly performed against Adolf Hilter and the Nazi regime in Maryland in January 1941, which is almost a year before the United States officially declared war. It was\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"England\"","block_context":{"text":"England","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=england"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4927,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4927","url_meta":{"origin":12617,"position":1},"title":"The Basic Split in Pagan Witchcraft","author":"Chas S. 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