{"id":7269,"date":"2015-06-11T10:39:57","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T16:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7269"},"modified":"2015-06-11T10:40:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T16:40:38","slug":"some-polish-healers-and-witches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7269","title":{"rendered":"Some Polish Healers and Witches"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

Part of a photo portrait exhibit on “women of power”<\/a> in Poland by photographer Katarzyna Majak<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Via Slate<\/em><\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Part of a photo portrait exhibit on “women of power” in Poland by photographer Katarzyna Majak. (Via Slate)<\/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":[218,29],"class_list":["post-7269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-poland","tag-witchcraft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1Tf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11319,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11319","url_meta":{"origin":7269,"position":0},"title":"“Folkloric” Pagan Statues Spark a Confrontation in Poland","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"February 21, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"The news article, \"Locals demand removal of \u201cdemonic, pagan\u201d sculptures on tourist folklore trail in Poland,\" starts this way: A small community in northern Poland is embroiled in a dispute over 13 wooden sculptures of spirits based on local folklore, pitting Catholics warning of \u201cdemonic idolatry\u201d conservatives against officials seeking\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Catholicism\"","block_context":{"text":"Catholicism","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=catholicism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/folkloric-statue.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10263,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10263","url_meta":{"origin":7269,"position":1},"title":"A Pagan-ish Easter Ceremony in Poland","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"March 3, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"R\u0119kawka is a celebration held in Krakow the Tuesday after Easter, so loosely speaking, it is a spring equinox festival. My friend in Krakow calls it \"a civic holiday with Pagan roots.\" R\u0119kawka is also one name for the tumulus (artificial mound) in the video. The celebration has long included\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"equinox\"","block_context":{"text":"equinox","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=equinox"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5924,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5924","url_meta":{"origin":7269,"position":2},"title":"New Article on Polish Paganism","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"August 20, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scott Simpson, who is quoted in it, \"Pre-Christian Slavic Beliefs are on the Rise in Poland\" (PDF file), from the Krakow Post. \u201cThe native faith movement as a whole is loosely organised and doesn\u2019t have a strong dogmatic component, it is actually less about faith \u2013 as in \u2018correct\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Paganism\"","block_context":{"text":"Paganism","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=paganism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8262,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8262","url_meta":{"origin":7269,"position":3},"title":"Call for Papers: Family, Home, and Ways of Life: Living Paganisms in a Globalized World","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"September 19, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Information on the upcoming Family, Home, and Ways of Life: Living Paganisms in a Globalized World conference in Krakow, Poland, 24-25 March 2017, may be found at this link. Presentations may address various issues within the following (suggested) topics: Everyday life of contemporary Pagans Understanding human relationships: from till death\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Paganism\"","block_context":{"text":"Paganism","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=paganism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":21,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=21","url_meta":{"origin":7269,"position":4},"title":"Psychedelic Venus Church","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"July 3, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"I had read Hans Holzer's rather sniffy assessment of the Berkeley-based Psychedelic Venus Church back in the 1970s in his book The New Pagans, but I was pleasantly surprised to see it listed under entheogen-based groups by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. Michael Marinacci wrote a more detailed history.Chief\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Paganism\"","block_context":{"text":"Paganism","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=paganism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11020,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11020","url_meta":{"origin":7269,"position":5},"title":"Playing Heathen Neo-folk on North Dakota Highways","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"November 16, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"I was on my way to a little town in North Dakota where a friend lives about at the intersection of Norway and Washington streets \u2014 can you get any more perfect than that? And every little town is dominated by a Lutheran steeple. A friend in Poland and I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"music\"","block_context":{"text":"music","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=music"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/finley-lutheran-church.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7269"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7273,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269\/revisions\/7273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}