{"id":2184,"date":"2010-12-17T17:50:59","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T00:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2184"},"modified":"2010-12-17T17:51:43","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T00:51:43","slug":"the-14th-thing-to-love-about-pagans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2184","title":{"rendered":"The 14th Thing to Love about Pagans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Writing at Pantheon<\/em>, “the Pagan blog at Patheos.com,” Star Foster lists “13 Things I LOVE about Pagans<\/a>,” for example, “Smaller is Better” and “Many Gods, Few Masters.”<\/p>\n

I agree with all of them. But I could add one more: “Borrowing” with both hands. Mad eclecticism.<\/p>\n

It is\u00a0 illustrated by her embedded video of the “Celtic rock” band Coyote Run<\/a> (American name, post-18th-century Scottish kilts) performing a musical version of Rudyard Kipling’s “A Tree Song” with no credit to him at all. (Maybe there is a credit in the printed liner notes\u2014I hope so.)<\/p>\n

Witches have been using that poem ritually since the 1960s, at least. You will find it in the Internet Book of Shadows<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

As a newcomer to the Craft, I\u00a0 actually thought it was indeed old\u00a0 lore\u2014a Pagan survivall! oral tradition!\u2014instead of having been written by the India-born Kipling in the early 1900s, after he finally moved “home” to England.<\/a> It was published in Puck of Pook’s Hill<\/em> <\/a>in 1906.<\/p>\n

Because of this 14th characteristic, I just laugh when some earnest Pagan starts lecturing about “cultural appropriation.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Writing at Pantheon, “the Pagan blog at Patheos.com,” Star Foster lists “13 Things I LOVE about Pagans,” for example, “Smaller is Better” and “Many Gods, Few Masters.” I agree with all of them. But I could add one more: “Borrowing” with both hands. Mad eclecticism. It is\u00a0 illustrated by her embedded video of the “Celtic […]<\/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":[21,34,5],"class_list":["post-2184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-england","tag-music","tag-paganism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-ze","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8262,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8262","url_meta":{"origin":2184,"position":0},"title":"Call for Papers: Family, Home, and Ways of Life: Living Paganisms in a Globalized World","author":"Chas S. 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