{"id":1619,"date":"2010-05-14T16:26:59","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T22:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1619"},"modified":"2010-05-14T16:41:45","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T22:41:45","slug":"imagined-witches-affected-by-ukrainian-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1619","title":{"rendered":"Imagined ‘Witches’ Affected by Ukrainian Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jason Pitzl-Waters recently mentioned a new moral panic in Ukraine that includes laws against psychics and divination<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gambling and artistic depictions of nudity are also affected.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Pagan connection to the latter? Igor Gaidai, a Ukrainian photographer whose compositions claim to invoke pre-Christian times, is the reporter’s example of who the crackdown is affecting, as noted last July.<\/a><\/p>\n

In his photo studio and gallery in the center of the Ukrainian capital, he displays his various projects, including one called \u201cSaman<\/a>,\u201d which hearkens back to a \u201cpre-Christian era\u201d when \u201cwitches\u201d roamed the earth. In it, naked women are depicted in various poses with brooms, as if in mid-flight, and are meant to glorify \u201cthe power of feminine energy, beauty and wisdom.\u201d His main display window also exhibits four young nude mothers, partially covered by their equally nude infants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Link <\/a>may be NSFW, depending. Via Sexy Witch<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jason Pitzl-Waters recently mentioned a new moral panic in Ukraine that includes laws against psychics and divination. Gambling and artistic depictions of nudity are also affected. The Pagan connection to the latter? Igor Gaidai, a Ukrainian photographer whose compositions claim to invoke pre-Christian times, is the reporter’s example of who the crackdown is affecting, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[122,29],"class_list":["post-1619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ukraine","tag-witchcraft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-q7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5788,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5788","url_meta":{"origin":1619,"position":0},"title":"New Book on Ukrainian Paganism","author":"Chas S. 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