Two videos that surprised Pagan bloggers by their Pagan feel, despite their sources.<\/p>\n
1. Via Hecate of Washington, DC, a link to a Vimeo slideshow of the “Rappahanock Halloween Festival”<\/a> sponsored by the Summerisle<\/span> Old Dominion Hunt in northern Virginia.<\/p>\n She comments, “How many Pagan Samhein [sic<\/em>] events have you been to that even come close to this? I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how often we Pagans ‘skip’\u00a0 the elements of ritual that appeal to Younger Child. Maybe we, in the words of the LOLcat posters, R doing it wrong.”<\/p>\n 2. From the House of Vines, a link with the comment, “This music video<\/em> gets it more right <\/a>than most of the Pagan rituals I\u2019ve been to.”<\/p>\n When I worked with Evan John Jones on the book Sacred Mask, Sacred Dance<\/em><\/a>, I found a passage in the book Ritual Animal Disguise<\/em><\/a> by the British folklorist E.C. Cawte about how school children introduced to masked mumming immediately absorbed the parts of Stag and Dog and so on. It’s all there, just waiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two videos that surprised Pagan bloggers by their Pagan feel, despite their sources. 1. Via Hecate of Washington, DC, a link to a Vimeo slideshow of the “Rappahanock Halloween Festival” sponsored by the Summerisle Old Dominion Hunt in northern Virginia. 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