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\u2022 Why am I blogging about Pagan and magical themes in old movies (as I did here<\/a> and here<\/a> ) when Tanya Kryzwinsk<\/a>a has the lot in her book A Skin for Dancing In: Possession, Witchcraft and Voodoo in Film<\/em>? She characterizes H\u00e4xan<\/em><\/a>, for instance, “the first ‘nunploitation’ movie” for its flagellant sisters. <\/p>\n

\u2022 Four more cartons of Pagan magazines and ephemera shipped off to UCSB today, which with last week’s shipment<\/a> makes seven. The storage shelves in the garage look about the same, however.<\/p>\n

\u2022 My revised version of Her Hidden Children: The Beginnings of American Paganism<\/em> (that subtitle is still under discussion) received a favorable review from the series’<\/a> co-editor. Hurray!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Snippets \u2022 Why am I blogging about Pagan and magical themes in old movies (as I did here and here ) when Tanya Kryzwinska has the lot in her book A Skin for Dancing In: Possession, Witchcraft and Voodoo in Film? She characterizes H\u00e4xan, for instance, “the first ‘nunploitation’ movie” for its flagellant sisters. \u2022 […]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-279","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1189,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1189","url_meta":{"origin":279,"position":0},"title":"Pagan Content on Patheos: John Muir was Pagan??","author":"Chas S. 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