Ye Olde Witches Brew Magazine
Embracing the Vintage Witch

Lee Hutchings

Lee Hutchings is the Owner of the wonderful Blog P a n t h e a : A l l T h i n g s a r e G o d d e s s  that is full of beautiful information on all things Goddess.

A.C. Aldag

A.C. Aldag is one of the founders of Caer na Donia y Llew, a legal Pagan church located near beautiful Lake Michigan. Our family practices a Cymri (Welsh, Celtic) folk magic tradition, and I also have a background in Alexandrian Wicca and Welsh Witchcraft. Shameless promotion: We help to sponsor the Paganstock Music Festival in June, Kalamazoo Pagan Pride Day in September and the Midwest Pagan Council's Pan Pagan Festival in northern Indiana every August.

Ailia Athena

You may view more articles and information from Ailia Athena at her website http://www.paleothea.com/

Amanda Kaczmarek

Mandy Kaczmarek is an eclectic Pagan living in New York City with her boyfriend of three years. She grew up in Bethel, Ohio and spent four years in St. Augustine, Florida before returning to lands above the Mason-Dixon. She has been following the Pagan path for about four years and is a founding member of the new, open circle Elemental. She recently had the honor of officiating her father's handfasting, whom she had inadvertently "converted" to Paganism several years ago by lending him her books. Mandy is very interested in networking with other members of the NYC Pagan community.

Ann Moura

Born in 1947 and raised in a family oral tradition of at least three generations, Ann Moura began writing about her heritage as a Green Witch in 1993 when her mother passed away. Her maternal heritage is Brazilian/Celtic-Iberian through her mother and grandmother. From them she learned folk magics and Craft concepts that included Rules of Conduct, spiritism, herbal spells, candle magics, reincarnation belief, calling upon the Elementals, and working with "The Power."Ann holds both Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in History and writes from the perspective of her personal experience and family training. Her books are sold internationally in English, Italian, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, and Russian. Ann is the author of Green Witchcraft: Folk Magic, Fairy Lore, & Herb Craft, Green Witchcraft II: Balancing Light & Shadow, Green Witchcraft III: The Manual, Green Magic: The Sacred Connection to Nature, Grimoire for the Green Witch: A Complete Book of Shadows, and Tarot for the Green Witch. She can be contacted through her website <http://www.annmourasgarden.com/>.

Anonymous

These are articles and stories that I have tirelessly tried to contact the Author but to no avail, so it is listed under *Anonymous* If anyone recognizes this article or if you are the Author please contact Jennifer at yeoldewitchesbrew@gmail.com so I may give credit where it belongs~

Barbara Daca

Barbara Daca was born in the Appalachian Mountains on the edge of the Alleghany forest where herbs, folklore and medicines were plentiful. She is Generational Hedge Witch of half British and half Dutch heritage and has a Masters Degree in Divinity and Religious studies.
Barbara Daca is the proud parent of three incredible people. She has made a life long project of studying natural healing techniques and is well sought after for her healing salves and knowledge of ancient charms and potions.
Barbara Daca is the owner of One Pot Witchery and a member of the Black Hat Society Network. You can reach her on CovenSpace.com, MySpace.com. or at www.onepotwitchery.com. She gladly welcomes all your comments and inquiries!

Barefoot Gypsy

I have been walking the Pagan Path for 4 years, but finding Paganism was more like coming home than going somewhere new. Certain parts of my life have always been connected to nature and to the divine energies of the Goddess and the God, and I delight in each day that I spend learning, sharing, and growing on this path.

Boudica

You can find this article by Boudica by visiting http://www.twpt.com/samboudica.htm

Brandy Floyd

Brenda Hyde

Brenda Hyde is a freelance writer living on ten acres in rural Michigan with her
husband and three kids. Stop by and visit her garden blog, Garden of Grace & Whimsy, and her photography blog, A Dance of Words & Photos.

Cedar Stevens

Owner and Hostess of the Natural Magick Shop online shop. Beautiful and powerful Pagan Products and Supplies~

Cerridwen

Born in Cuba and raised in the States, I presently live in South East Florida. Raised Catholic, from very early on I have been spiritually involved in one way or another. For the past 20 years I have been involved with Siddha Yoga, a yogic Path of Bhakti (devotion). I came to the Craft about 5 years ago and it just felt so much like a natural progression in my spirituality that I plunged right into it without hesitation.

I am an Initiate in the Welsh Grail Tradition of the Craft. I have two cats - one boy and one girl - who I love like my children. I work as an Admin Assistant for SunPass and enjoy my job very much. Aside from the Craft my passions are music (I used to sing Opera), movies (I don't know what I would do without my TV) and I love to read, read and read. I'm pretty good with computers also.

Cham0mile M00n

Full Moon Paradise is no longer active, and is available for archive purposes....the active group has been moved to Pagan Living at www.paganliving.org where you can find a vast resource of articles, information and so much more...

Cordelia

Cordelia is a Solitary Witch, wife, mom to 3 and nana to 3. When she isn't busy practicing her craft and caring for the family, she enjoys scrap booking, herb gardening, cooking and sewing.

Visit Cordelia at The Raven's Nest

Cynthia Grove

Cynthia Lilith

D.J. Conway

A native of the Pacific Northwest, I have been studying in the occult fields for over 35 years. My quest for knowledge has covered every aspect of Paganism and Wicca to the New Age and Eastern philosophies, plus history, the magical arts, philosophy, customs, mythologies and folklore. In 1998 I was voted Best Wiccan and New Age author by Silver Chalice, a Pagan magazine. I live a rather quiet life, with most of my time spent researching and writing.

David Beaulieu

David Beaulieu's career as a landscape and garden writer builds on a decade of prior work with landscaping plants in the nursery business, and on a lifelong love of plants of all kinds.

David was a regular contributor to Do! (2003-2006), the home and garden magazine published by Highbury House. He has been interviewed by numerous newspapers and national magazines and has also appeared on "Ask Andrea," the nationally syndicated radio show targeted to do-it-yourself home and garden enthusiasts.

From David Beaulieu:

My approach to discussing do-it-yourself landscape design is not only to instruct, but also to inspire. To that end, I try to engage the reader in some of the wonderful narratives that underlie the more mundane facts about landscaping plants.

Due to not being to obtain a proper email address, if reader's would like more information, this article along with many other's can be found by visiting About.com

Davina Rush

I am a mother to two little girls who are my life♥ They are such amazing and awesome little people. I live in TN but I am originally from FL. I LOVE it here... The mountains are just "home" to me

I'm a bit of a gypsy at heart- I am an ever changing, ever evolving free spirit... but the thing that never changes with me is my love and devotion for my kids, my family and friends, music, art and poetry...and the fact that i am a loyal and honest person among other things.

" life's too short to live the same day twice"...

Debbie Rodgers

Debbie Rodgers owns and operates Paradise Porch, and is dedicated to helping people create outdoor living spaces that nurture and enrich them. She also writes for Old Fashioned Living dot Com

Dorothy Morrison

Originally from Texas, Dorothy Morrison now lives the magical life in Maine with her family. Dorothy is a member of the Pagan Poet's Society and a charter member of M.A.G.I.C., a magical writer's and artist's organization. Dorothy is a Wiccan High Priestess of the Georgian Tradition, and has been an avid practitioner of the ancient arts for more than twenty years. She founded the Coven of the Crystal Garden in 1986, and spent many years teaching the Craft of Wicca to students both in the United States and in Australia.

A former state championship archer and bow hunter, Dorothy's current interests include Tarot work, magical herbalism, stonework, and computer networking.

Dorothy's work has been published in many journals and magazines, including Circle Network News, SageWoman, and Crone Chronicles. She is the author of the acclaimed Everyday Magic, Magical Needlework, In Praise of the Crone, Yule, Bud, Blossom & Leaf: The Magical Herb Gardener's Handbook, The Craft, and The Craft Companion, among other works..

http://www.dorothymorrison.com/

Dragonfly

Greetings Fellow Readers! My name is Dragonfly and I am a mother to seven wonderful children. I am a hoosier native but have lived in the hot, dry desert valley of Las Vegas for the past 8 Years. My children are 16, 13, 9,7, twins 4, all boys andmy little princess is 3. I enjoy writing poetry and short stories, gardening, baking and fumbling around with different sorts of dinner recipes to make life a little more interesting at the dinnertable.

I am an Eclectic Pagan. I teach my children and myself to abide by the Wiccan Rede. I always tell my children "Harm nobody with your words or your actions." My children love Mother Earth and all her living things that reside on the planet. They love to play with the bugs and enjoy seeing butterflies, birds and different parts of nature that the Goddess has blessed us with in all her glory. I hope you will enjoy reading the articles that I share with you. I have so many wonderful ideas, and would appreciate any suggestions you may have for further articles. I may be reached at

dragonflyhummingbird@gmail.com

Edgar Allan

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), American poet, critic, short story writer, and author of such macabre works as “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1840), "The Raven", and other morbid tales~

Fiona Brigit

Fiona Brigit is a Certified Herbalist from Tuscon, AZ. Fiona was first taught the Craft by her paternal grandmother, a midwife and herbalist on the Isle of Skye in the northwest of Scotland.

Gerri Williamson

Gerri Williamson has been a practicing pagan for 22 years. Co-owner, along with her husband, of  “Vermorlian Magick Shoppe” www.vermorlian.com . She is a Halloween artist, maker of quilts, calligrapher, painter, designer and maker of gothic clothing and  historical costumes, steel boned corsets and restores antiques. In her spare time, she likes to study art, Arthurian legend and read.....classical literature, history, religion, archaeology, historical fiction and can often be seen with a good vampire book tucked under her arm. She has been classically trained to sing opera, so her love of music is more like a passion.
Her children are her life and love.....including the ones she has "adopted" as hers, along the way.
She believes in volunteer work and giving back to her community.....and loves to drag others along with her! lol!

Heather S.

Heather Douglas was born on November 8, 1982 in South Carolina. She has been a practicing witch most of her life and was influenced heavily by her Native American father. She currently resides in South Carolina and works as a paralegal in a large law firm. She is owned by two pets, a cat, Raven and a dog, Rowan. Heather has had a series of poems and articles published in various college newspapers and is currently working on a novel and studying photography.

Helen Tafoya-Barraza,

Jacki Hileman

Jan Love

EZine Article Writer and Contributor

Janice Van Cleve

Janice is a freelance writer for many magazines and some newspapers including Widdershins, Voice of Choices, Open Ways, Women Outdoors, Washington Trails, and the Seattle Gay News, among others. She is a priestess with Women Of The Goddess Circle in Seattle, a regular attendee at Spring Mysteries put on by the ATC (www. aquatabch. org) , and Concentric Circles.She teaches ritual 101 through 401 at conferences and  regularly scripts rituals for her circle

Janina Renée

Janina Renée is a scholar of folklore, psychology, medical anthropology, the material culture of magic, ritual studies, history, and literature. Her books include Tarot Spells, Tarot Your Everyday Guide (winner of 2001 Coalition of Visionary Resources award for best Self Help book), Tarot for a New Generation (2002 COVR winner, best General Interest Title), and By Candlelight: Rites for Celebration, Blessing and Prayer (2005 COVR runner-up, Spirituality). Janina continues to work on multiple books, with ongoing research projects exploring the ways folk magic and medicinal techniques can apply to modern problems, including the modulation of Asperger's Syndrome and other neuro-sensory processing problems.

Website Tarot Magic Adventures

Jayne

  *~*  I am a solitary,hearth witch who remains in the shadows as I dwell on "Why-don't-we-go-to-church ?"Long Island. I am fortunate to reside in the house that I grew up in with my beloveds :a husband-of-two-hundred-and-sixteen-moons , our trio of children , nine felines , one Corgi , and a Woodland Box turtle. *~*

Jeanne Gripp

Jeanne Gripp lives in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas with her husband, two rambunctious Alaskan Malamutes and several cats. A published short-story author, Jeanne also spends her time gardening and creating one of a kind whimsical art. Her creations can be found at:  http://wildwoodsart.googlepages.com/

Jennifer Bones

Jennifer Bones is a long time practitioner of the Nature / Pagan religion. Her writings span from spiritual fiction to historic studies of women's issues.

Jennifer Toppel

As Creator of Ye Olde Witches Magazine along with The Black Hat Society Network, Jennifer is a very busy mother of 2 children. Recently Handfasted/Married to her High School Sweetheart, Jennifer works as an aspiring dog groomer and is working to gain her Certification as a Professional Dog Groomer.

Jennifer is an Eclectic Kitchen Witch with various interests in a wide variety of Spiritual Beliefs. Nature is her Church and the Kitchen and Garden are her playgrounds in which she does her best work.

Jessica Marie

  Jessica Waltrip is an Eclectic Wiccan ,of the Crone type, who is also a Friend of Faerie. She lives in rural Western Kentucky in a 100 year old Ginger Bread farmhouse surrounded by trees and gardens. She shares her space with her husband, three dogs and two cats. Daily life is spent as a  Registered Nurse taking care of the elderly. Her own time is spent on her gardens, animals and Craft work. This Faerie tale was written after an encounter with a wayward bullfrog on the first day of Summer in 2006. The pond and hayfield are really there, the trips across the hay field really happened. If the rest of the story is true?......well, it is up to the reader to decide.

Jo Ann

Jo Ann is a well-known clairaudient and intuitive counselor who has been providing services at Creative Medicine since its inception.  She has been teaching and studying spiritual pathways for more than 30 years and specializes in Tarot and American Indian traditions.  She uses a variety of divination methods.  One area of her expertise is love relationships and career development.

JO LYNNE

JO LYNNE GIANVECCHIO-VALERIE is an author and High Priestess. She has been Editor in Chief of holistic and new age print magazines, and was on both the production team for the PBS Television Show, Nature's Wisdom, which she eventually co-hosted. Jo Lynne's latest work is her debut book titled, A Tale For All Seasons: Magical Stories For Heart And Soul. She is the founder of Temple of The Moonlit Path and The Natural Food Cupboard. Learn more about her work on her web-site, www.JoLynneValerie.com

AUTHOR CONTACT INFORMATION
Jo Lynne Gianvecchio-Valerie
1900 Empire Blvd., Suite 102
Webster, NY 14580
(585) 230-1581
JoLynne@FullMoonRisingMagazine.com
www.JoLynneValerie.com

Johann Erickson

I am a small business owner, selling home & garden products, household items, and similar products. Our company has been in business since 2001 and has been growing each year since. It is a family owned and operated business operating from a large warehouse facility in the heart of Tampa.

Interests and Hobbies:
I own a home and am interested in gardening, home improvement and trying to maintain the house. I am also interested in politics and sports (NFL football mainly).

Homepage:
http://www.onlinediscountmart.com

John Keats

English lyric poet, the archetype of the Romantic writer. While still in good health, Keats was ambitious of doing the world some good, instead of focusing on his own sensitive soul. Keats felt that the deepest meaning of life lay in the apprehension of material beauty, although his mature poems reveal his fascination with a world of death and decay. Most of his best work appeared in one year.

Darkling I listen; and for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful Death
(from 'To a Nightingale')

John Keats was born in London as the son of a successful livery-stable manager. He was the oldest of four children, who remained deeply devoted to each other. Thomas, his father, was the chief hostler at the Swan and Hoop. After their father died in 1804 in a riding accident, Keats's mother, Frances Jennings Keats, remarried but the marriage was soon broken. She moved with the children, John and his sister Fanny and brothers George and Tom, to live with her mother at Edmonton, near London. She died of tuberculosis in 1810.

At school Keats read widely. He was educated at the progressive Clarke's School in Enfield, where he began a translation of the Aeneid. Keats, who was barely five feet tall, was not know at school for his enthusiasm for books, but his fighting. "My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it," he wrote. 1811 Keats was apprenticed to a surgeon-apothecary. While studying for the licence, he completed his translation of Aeneid. Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene impressed him deeply and his first poem, written in 1814, was 'Lines in Imitation of Spenser.' In that year he moved to London and resumed his surgical studies in 1815 as a student at Guy's hospital. Next year he became a Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries and was allowed to practice surgery. Before devoting himself entirely to poetry, Keats worked as a dresser and junior house surgeon. In London he had met Leigh Hunt, the editor of the leading liberal magazine of the day, The Examiner. He introduced Keats to other young Romantics, including Shelley, and published in the magazine Keats's sonnet, 'O Solitude'.

Keats's first book, Poems, was published in 1817. Sales were poor. He spent the spring with his brother Tom and friends at Shankin. It was about this time Keats started to use his letters as the vehicle of his thoughts of poetry. They mixed the everyday events of his own life with comments with his correspondence. Among others T.S. Eliot considered the letters in The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (1933) "certainly the most notable and most important ever written by any English poet," but also said about Keats's famous Hyperion: "it contains great lines, but I do not know whether it is a great poem." The first of his famous letters Keats wrote to Benjamin Bailey on November 22, 1817. "You perhaps at one time thought there was such thing as Worldly Happiness to be arrived at, at certain periods of time marked out - you have necessity from your disposition been thus led away - I scarcely remember counting upon any Happiness". Endymion, Keats's first long poem appeared, when he was 21. It told in 4000 lines of the love of the moon goddess Cynthia for the young shepherd Endymion. It was attacked among others by John Wilson Croker and John Gibson Lochard, who wrote in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine: '... it has just as much to do with Greece as it has with "old Tartary the fierce;" no man, whose mind has ever been imbued with the smallest knowledge or feeling of classical poetry or classical history, could have stooped to profane and vulgarize every association in the manner which has been adopted by this "son of promise."' Although the critical reaction was lukewarm, Keats was not discouraged by it, but wrote to Richard Woodhouse: "I am ambitious of doing the world some good: if I should be spared that may be the work of mature years - in the interval I will assay to reach to as high a summit in Poetry as the nerve bestowed upon me will suffer." Keats's greatest works were written in the late 1810s, among them Lamia, The Eve of St. Agnes, the great odes and two versions of Hyperion. He worked briefly as a theatrical critic for The Champion, spent summer of 1818 touring the Lakes, Scotland and Northern Ireland. During his journey, which he made with his friend Charles Brown, a businessman, he vowed: "I shall learn poetry here and shall henceforth write more than ever." After returning to London he spent the next three months attending his brother Tom, who was seriously ill with tuberculosis.

After Tom's death in December, Keats moved to Hampstead to live with Charles Brown. Soon he fell in love with Fanny Brown, the daughter of a widowed neighbor, and they were betrothed. In the winter of 1818-19 he worked mainly on Hyperion and The Eve of St Agnes. The fragmentary Eve of St Mark were composed during a visit to his friend Charles Wentworth Dilke's parents and relatives in Sussex. In 1819 Keats finished Lamia, and wrote another version of Hyperion, called The Fall of Hyperion. His famous poem 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' was inspired by a Wedgwood copy of a Roman copy of a Greek vase. Josiah Wedgwood's copy was purchased by Sir William Hamilton, who sold it to the duchess of Portland. She denoted the vase to the British Museum in 1784.

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all
Ye know on earth and all ye need to know.
(from 'Ode on a Grecian Urn') 

In 1820 appeared the second volume of Keats poems. It gained a huge critical success. However, Keats was suffering at that time from tuberculosis. His poems were marked with sadness partly because he was too poor to marry Fanny Brawne. Keats broke off his engagement and began what he called a "posthumous existence." In a letter from 1819 he had written. "I love you more in that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and nothing else. I have met with women whom I relay think would like to be married to a Poem and given away by a Novel." When his condition gradually worsened, he sailed for Italy in September with the painter Joseph Severn, to escape England's cold winter. Declining Shelley's invitation to join him at Pisa, Keats went to Rome, where he took up residence in rooms overlooking the Piazza di Spagna. He died in Rome at the age of 25, on February 23, 1821, and was buried in the Protestant Cemetery. Keats did not invent his own epitaph, but remembered words from the play Philaster, or Love Lies-Ableeding, written by Beaumont and Fletcher in 1611. "All your better deeds / Shall be in water writ," one of the characters says. Keats told his friend Joseph Severn that he wanted on his grave just the line, "Here lies one whose name was writ in water."

Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art -
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
(from 'The Last Sonnet') 

In spite of early harsh criticism, Keats's reputation grew after his death. The poet's letters were published in 1848 and 1878. Keats's works have influenced among others The Pre-Raphaelites, Oscar Wilde and Alfred Tennyson. Some later poets have attacked Keats and the Romantics: for T.S. Eliot Byron was "a disorderly mind, and an uninteresting one" and Keats and Shelley were "not nearly such great poets as they are supposed to be". Andrew Motion claims in his biography on Keats (1998) that the author was obsessed with sex and had venereal disease and these aspects of the poets life were hidden by early biographers, who underlined Keats's poverty, poor health, and misunderstanding criticism.

Information found on http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jkeats.htm 

Karen Mehringer

Karen Mehringer (Colorado) is a psychotherapist with a master's degree in marriage and family therapy, special training in energy transformation, and over ten years of personal development experience. She owns Creative Transformations, where she helps clients fulfill their dreams. With a cabin in the mountains and a sailboat on the ocean, Karen and her husband are living their own dreams.

Website: Creative Transformations

Kathy Burns-Millyard

Hi There, I'm Kathy! :) I'm a freelance stock photographer and writer who's worked from home since 1997.

My articles have been published in tens of thousands of locations across the web in the last 10-12 years - some under the name Kathy Burns, and the more recent ones under the name Kathy Burns-Millyard. I've also had articles published in a variety of print publications over the years, such as Wireless Week and Entreprenuer Magazine.

Topics I've covered have included small business, online marketing, affiliate programs, palm pilots and gadgets, technology, health and herbal remedies, hobbies and crafts, gardening, home decorating, and photography. I'm an avid learner and prolific writer though, so I'll write on just about anything.

I currently live in South East New Mexico (USA) and am planning to move to Arizona and live off the grid in the middle of 40 acres of land soon.

You're welcome to use any of my articles here at EZA as long as you use them legally. Please place live links back to my websites properly, do not remove my copyright and credit notices, and do NOT link one or more pieces of my articles to porn related content.

I'm always open to new topic suggestions too, so please feel free to leave your feedback and requests! :)

Lady Abagail

I'm a Metaphysical Coordinator or Witch..... I'm an Eclectic Witch & Pagan, a Solitary Witch, Coven HPS, Lady Shaman, Herbalist, SageWitch and Crone. I'm a Spiritual Psychic and Medium. I'm a child of the Lord and Lady, of the Old South and of the New World. I have lived all over the world and I have seen more than some dare to dream... I exist with in a world of Magick and light.

I am extremely proud to be the High Priestess of "Ravensgrove Coven." An Eclectic Coven made up of Solitary Witches in the Indy area. For those that work within a degree system I would be considered third degree in some forth, thirteenth level. But generally, that means I'm and old Witch of many years.

I am first and foremost a Witch, I work as and Eclectic Witch. I am blessed to be from a long line of Witches that encompasses both sides of the world. I am a Sagewitch or Crone. I hope to have an aged knowledge to pass on to others but I also expect to study and to learn so much more within this lifetime.

I am a raised Witch. I was given the gift of having a Great Grandmother who was a Witch. She was Cajun, half Native American and half French. She raised me in the Craft during a time when being a Witch had to be held in secret and was not considered in any way popular. Yet with heart and love I understood that anything was possible, from the powers of the Earth and within Nature.

I have worked as a Professional Psychic and Medium for more years than I like to say. My spiritual abilities are a blessing I have had since birth. I have the capability to see and understand the inter dimensions of places and things. I have a comprehendible ability to the interpret spirits and souls from within the worlds.

I am a Herb Witch, working and studying herbs my entire life. I am a Healer; I enjoy helping others when seeking to find the best ways to heal both, body and spirit in a natural and spiritual way.

I love to write. Poetry, Articles, Stories and about my life growing up as a Witch. I have written two books and am working on a third I hope to someday have published. I am fortunate to have had numerous articles and poetry featured in various Pagan publications.

As legal clergy I am certified within the Faith. I am well versed in the rituals of Handfastings, Wiccanings and Passings. I enjoy assisting those wishing to write their own rituals of Handfastings and Passings for their personal ceremonies. Teaching others and working within the faith and magick.

To all who follow the ways of Truth and Light ... Be Blessed,
Lady Abigail
HPS; Ravensgrove Coven
Greenfield, IN

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Check out Ravensgrove on; http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ravensgrove/

Lady Hecate

WebMistress and WordWeaver of Hecate's Cauldron http://www.hecatescauldron.org/index.htm 

I am a Third Degree, Elevated High Priestess in the Gardnerian/Alexandrian tradition of Wicca.  I have been practicing Paganism and Witchcraft for a number of years....too many for me to acknowledge!  Although I have earned the title of High Priestess in the highest level of the Wiccan tradition, and the years it took me to get there,  I am more Witch than anything else and no longer call myself Wiccan, as according to the Oxford Dictionary, Wicca is a male term.   I also do not follow the Wiccan religion because of its male emphasis on the Sun God and a religion entitled with a male name when it is a Goddess religion.  I am simply a Witch and Pagan.   I have never regretted the many years of training which I received as an initiated Wiccan.  I also took many workshops in the arts of magick and its symbolism, ritual work, divination, etc.

I am also High Priestess of my own coven entitled Hecate's Cauldron which is centered in Maryland. Because I am an initiated Wiccan of the highest degree; I am able to initiate others  into the Craft. 

Lady Isis

My friends call me Donna, in coven I go by the name of Lady Isis Rose. I have been on the witches path for about 10 years now and have been High Priestess of Enchanted Rose Moon Circle (a coven of women) for almost 4 years. I am also a wife, mother, and new Grandmama (and so excited about that!) my path and that of my coven is an Eclectic one. Although our coven partroness is Isis, we Honor all Goddesses and Gods alike.

Lark

Author for the Kansas based group The Web of Oz

Linda Fate

Lisa Suhay

Lori Craig-Gaddis~Pooka

Lucy Pappas

Yasmina's Joy of Belly Dancing

Luxotica

Anyone who is curious or interested in fire dancing, fire twirling, fire eating, fire hooping, fire clothing and fire performance related! For more information please visit Luxotica

Maria Kay

Maria Kay Simms, astrologer, author, artist and Wiccan priestess, whose books appear below, is known as Molly's Mom to many who come into Starcrafts. Maria now resides in the seacoast area of New Hampshire where she has created her own little "stonehenge" on the rural property that is now her home. The 60 ft. diameter circle with granite boulders marking the quarters provides the sacred site for her Circle of the Cosmic Muse.

Maria is credentialed as a minister through Covenant of the Goddess and by LA Community Church of Religion Science. A professional astrologer for over 30 years, she is certified as such by two astrological professional organizations. For one of them, National Council for Geocosmic Research, Inc., she served as Chair (President) the past six years, and was recently named Chair of its Advisory Board. Also the former President of Astro Communications Services, Inc,, Maria has recently formed a new small business. Check her website www.starcraftseast.com. Maria's bio appears in the Marquis Who's Who in America, Who's Who of American Women and Who's Who in the World. Maria is the mother of three daughters and two granddaughters. Molly Sullivan, owner of Starcrafts, is her middle daughter.

Maylynn Hughes

Maylynn Hughes is the webmistress of the website www.dragonbluespoetry.com all of her poetry as well as articles such as this one can be found there as well.

Michelle Baldwin

Michelle resides in Las Vegas with her Handfasted Husband and Cat. She was born and raised in a small town called Elkin,North Carolina and first moved to be with her now Husband in May of 2000. She now calls her Spiritual path Agnostic Pagan. She doesn't currently practice much but she has a local Metaphysical group which has bi-weekly meetings. Her favorite poet is Jim Morrison of The Doors. Aside from writing poetry and songs, she also enjoys singing.
She also loves the sixties and refers to herself as 'hippyish' :) You may read more of her poetry and see more of her photos in the gallery section here: http://witchychick24.deviantart.com You can also hear some of her poetry here: http://www.myspace.com/michellesmusings

 

Michelle Ross

Michelle Ross lives in North East England, and has previously written for the National trust and `pagan news` online magazine, she is currently working on two scripts for television and a medieval fantasy novel. Michelle also loves to study the Victorian era and relaxing to write poetry in the English Lake District.

You also find Michelle by visiting her Myspace site at:

www.myspace.com/lakelandpoet

Midnight Rhain

I am a writer, my tales woven in the darker realms of horror, fantasy, some mystery and poetry. I graduated from Colorado State University with a B.A. in Technical Journalism. I have been
published in several poetry anthologies, newspaper articles, online magazines, penned short stories, ghost collaborated a children's novel and was a featured writer for 'Salon Magazine.'
I am currently working on a horror novel and a collection of short stories.

I am of the old ways, my beliefs rooted in the path of the ancient ones. I am of Scottish, Irish, Welsh and English heritage. I developed a keen interest in the occult at the age of 15,
beginning my studies of the craft when I was 17. I have been a Solitary Practitioner for most of my life. Recently, I have begun a new journey in my quest for knowledge pursuing my life
long dream of becoming a High Priestess.

contact info:
Nanncy J. Steward
P.O. Box 149
Fort Collins, CO 80522
njsteward@hotmail.com
970-221-3264

Mike Nichols

Mike Nichols is the celebrated author of The Witches' Sabbats--the ultimate resource on Pagan holidays--a contributing author to Creating Circles & Ceremonies, and related writings. He does extensive online teaching and writing, occasionally guest lectures at Pagan festivals, and performs in a Pagan band called Spellbound. Mike has been a featured speaker on National Public Radio, Spiral Dance Radio, and Eclectic Pagan Podcast on iTunes.

A pioneer in the American neo-Pagan movement, Nichols taught classes in Witchcraft for twenty years continuously, from 1970 to 1989, in Columbia and Kansas City, Missouri, through the Communiversity and at his bookstore, The Magick Lantern. He was also the editor of The Lantern's Light, the store's in-house publication. A founding member of the Coven of New Gwynedd, Nichols was the first Wiccan representative on the Kansas City Interfaith Council.

Nichols is a lifelong student of the Craft and, after years of research, writing, and teaching, he still considers himself a student. He received his BA from the University of Missouri, with a double major in communications and psychology (specializing in parapsychology). He has done graduate work in the field of library and information science.

Mystical Realms

This is a beautiful website with a lot of informative information. The Beautiful article "The Magic and Wonder of Litha" is courtesy of Mystical Realms. You can visit their website at http://twopagans.com/mystickalrealms/main.html

Nadia Romanov

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), American author wrote the Gothic Romance The Scarlet Letter (1850)

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Nigel Suckling

"I've always rather envied those Victorian gentlemen scholars who used the leisure of their circumstances to energetically push back the boundaries of imagination in both the arts and sciences (while watching their split infinitives, of course), as opposed to the other toffs who simply indulged themselves with lives of ease and luxury. Unless in a previous life, I've not been that lucky, lacking the necessary independent wealth. But I have nevertheless been very fortunate in having been allowed, one way or another, to ride most of my hobby-horses anyway. Here in my imaginary mansion you can find most of them, beginning with some of the most recent. If you'd like to see where I really live, there is a secret passage hidden somewhere in the depths of the library that leads you there. It's a rather more humble environment but just as magical in its own way as anything you'll find in here. "

For a Complete Bio of Nigel Suckling Click Here

Our Lady

Our Lady of the Woods is an eclectic teaching coven in northern New Mexico, offering a structured, degree-based program in the Ladywoods Tradition originating with Amber K. We do not offer correspondence courses.

Our Congregation meets to celebrate Sabbats and for special classes and events. All congregational events are open to the public and free unless stated. See the calendar for a list of events.

OLW is a member of the Chamisa Local Council of the Covenant of the Goddess, an international confederation of covens and solitaries of various traditions who agree to a common ethic. At the Autumn Equinox the CLC hosts a festival camping weekend, Magickal Mountain Mabon; information for MMM is generally made available a few months before the festival at the CLC website (www.chamisa.org).

OLW supports Ardantane, a Pagan college located in the Jemez Mountains of NM. We encourage you to explore its offerings at www.ardantane.org.

Pagan Hearth

The Pagan Hearth Recipes website is located at paganhearthrecipes@groups.msn.com This MSN Group is no longer active but you may visit their New Site at www.paganliving.org  It's a beautiful site and community filled with wonderful information, articles and more...

Peg Aloi

Peg Aloi has written quite a number of articles for Witchvox. She lives in Jamaica Plains, New York. To view more articles from Peg stop by Witchvox at www.witchvox.com Witchvox is a portal of very informative articles, information and other Pagan related material.

Pisces Halcyon

Pisces Halcyon has been writing since she was very young. As a child, she never had an imaginary friend, but she would create her own “fantasy worlds” instead. Her greatest accomplishment is creating 9 of Swords Magazine (www.9ofswords.com) to promote independent writers, artists and musicians. She has written financial articles for Associated Content, and divorce360.com. However, Pisces’s true passion is writing fiction and poetry. Her poetry is a combination of awe-inspired fantasy and gothic dark fantasy. Pisces’s is highly influenced by Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins. Pisces has always loved his evocative song writing, and really enjoys his poetry. Pisces’s short stories cross several genres from Horror, Sci-fi, Fantasy, and Action/Thrillers. Pisces’s writing style is influenced by Hunter S. Thompson. She often writes her characters inspired by herself or people she knows. At times, she does write in first person narrative to give the reader an experience through a particular character’s eyes. Pisces’s experiences life very vividly and is naturally a very expressive person. She loves writing stories that embellish reality or experiences she has personally had. She is currently working on weaving her short-stories into a novel. Pisces’s currently lives in Boynton Beach Florida, with her wonderful husband, and 3 animals; Princess, “The Beauty Queen Cat,” Gila, “The Tabby Cat from Tijuana” and Joey, a Pekingese also known as “The royalty dog.”

Roma Welsh

More articles by Roma Welsh can be found at

http://www.collectdolls.about.com/library/ucpaperdolls.htm

Rowan BrightMoon

Rowan is a Witch living in Dekalb, Illinois. She has been practicing for three years and currently does work with Diana's Grove Mystery School in Missouri along with her solitary endeavors. She enjoys thought-provoking discussion, tarot, ecstatic ritual and the occasional nap.

Salome

Bio Information From OrientalDancer.net

Salome has been interviewed by the United Arab Emirates magazine "STARS", appeared as cover and feature in "Jareeda" magazine, in "SAHDA" from Vancouver, Canada, selected for the Cambridge Who's Who of professionals and has been featured in countless newspapers around the globe. Salome was honored to be the feature model for the renowned Turkish costume designer Ismail of Sim Moda Evi for the Turkish magazine "DANS".In the late 1970's Salome's mother, Cynthia, took up "Belly dance". She was the quintessential picture of the time; performing in coined bedlah to the strains of George Abdo and the Flames of Araby Orchestra.

When Salome was twelve she began formal study of Oriental dance from Kameal, a spectacular teacher in Corvallis, Oregon. Salome went on to perform in Kameal's dance company "Bayt al Nejmah" along side her mother. "Bayt al Nejmah" performed solely to the live music of "Joseph Pusey and the Nile Spice Orchestra", in which Salome's step-father, Kevin Hylton, was the percussionist. For many enriching years to follow her family performed with Joseph, Kameal and company.

By seventeen Salome was accepting professional solo engagements. She performed in Oregon and Washington in a myriad of venues, independently and through entertainment agents. Representation by AAA Talent Agency - "Salome's dance is both unique and classical. When combined with her vibrant charisma and exotic physical beauty you have a powerful performance which I sincerely believe cannot be matched by anyone else!" Erik L. Whitney, CEO AAA Talent Agency.

Salome's career soon took her abroad with representation by "Rising Stars", "Classic Models", and "Showhouse" (among others) she has worked exclusively in luxury venues abroad in a near successive string of short and long term engagements.

Salome and her Manager, Anatoliy Rozhok, have recently returned to the United States. Salome currently teaches in Corvallis, Oregon, and continues to travel internationally and nationally to perform and teach contemporary American style Oriental dance.

If you would like to engage Salome for a performance or workshop instruction please contact Anatoliy at anatoliy@orientaldancer.net

Sandra Bubbles

Master Soapmaker with a beautiful shop on Etsy.com; naiad soap arts

Sandra Dinkins-Wilson

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Selena Fox

Quoted Directly From The Selena Fox Website

Selena Fox is a psychotherapist, teacher, writer, photographer, ritual performance artist, and priestess. She is founder and co-executive director of Circle Sanctuary, an international Nature Spirituality resource center headquartered on a 200 acre Nature preserve in southwestern Wisconsin, USA.

Selena received her M.S. in Counseling from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She graduated cum laude with a B.S. in psychology from the College of William and Mary in Virginia in 1971. She received additional training in psychology at Rutgers University, Parkway Hospital, and various conferences and training programs. She is a member of the American Psychological Association, American Counseling Association, Association for Transpersonal Psychology, and American Academy of Religion. She is a spiritual counselor in private practice. She also is a staff psychotherapist at Wellspring, a mental health outpatient clinic in Madison, Wisconsin.

Selena has been a Wiccan priestess and Pagan artist since 1973. Selena's approach to spirituality emphasizes Nature communion and blends together ancient and contemporary European and American folkways, Wiccan traditions, multicultural shamanism, and transpersonal psychology. She is one of America's best known Pagan elders, networkers, and civil liberties activists. She is founder of Circle Network, Lady Liberty League, and the Pagan Academic Network. Over the years, Selena and her work have been covered by various regional, national, and global media, including Time Magazine, Wall Street Journal, CNN's Larry King Live, NBC's Today Show, and various radio networks (NPR, BBC, ABC, CBC). She has spoken at a variety of international and multicultural conferences.

Selena's writings and photographs have been published in a variety of periodicals, anthologies, and other publications. She is author of Goddess Communion Rituals and Meditations and When Goddess is God. She also has created several music and guided meditation tapes. She is founder of the quarterly journal, Circle Network News, and sourcebook, Circle Guide to Pagan Groups. She was a consultant for Time-Life Books' Mysteries of the Unknown series.

Selena has traveled widely in connection with her work. She has presented workshops and facilitated community ritual experiences in many types of settings, including colleges and universities, festivals, churches, conferences, and healing centers. She lives with her husband, Dr. Dennis Carpenter, and nine cats... at Circle Sanctuary Nature Preserve. Her avocational pursuits include archaeology, genealogy, herbology, and ornithology.

Sherri Osborn

Experience:

From Sherri Osborn:

sisalfish

sisalfish is a Dianic wiccan living in an old house in San Antonio, with her husband of thirty years and a neurotic sheltie named Chee. Shes interested in chant, ritual movement, shamanism and tarot, and is a Mystery in the Dianas Grove Mystery School.

Sonny Watson

Information about Sonny Watson From the StreetSwing.com Website. For More Information Visit www.streetswing.com

"Sonny Watson started dancing Hustle, Country and Various Swing dances in Los Angeles, California around 1980. By 1982 he had won many contests and began teaching West Coast Swing plus other dances. Sonny founded the Valley Swing Dance Club with his friend Kenny Wetzel in February of 1985." (Source: StreetSwing.com)

"Through the years Sonny has competed in a vast number of contests, which have taken him all over the USA. Sonny has received many awards, including two

he is most proud, 'The U.S. Open Teacher / Promoter award' and being inducted (2x's) into the "California Swing Dance Hall of Fame" with the latest induction in 2006 as well as being inducted into the All~Swing DJ "Hall Of Fame" in 2007. Sonny has also been in the Top Ten N.A.S.D.E. Tour many times through out the 1990s." (Source: StreetSwing.com)

To Read the Entire Bio of Sonny Watson visit www.streetswing.com

Susan Woywitka

Bio Information can be found on her beautiful website, A Magical Life

Susan has a broad background in the magical. Magic for Susan is working with the invisible energies, the invisible realms. Her goal is to make them visible, understood or practical in the physical for use in daily life. Susan enjoys variety and practices her craft through a variety of disciplines.

Trained at the Nine Harmonies School of Feng Shui, Susan consults with clients helping them be in tune with the flow of universal energy. Feng shui supports the life of an individual at home or at their place of business through channeling and enhancing positive energy (chi).

Ritual uses the power of magic in a ceremony or celebration to mark an important event. Rituals add meaning to our lives, gives them importance.

Susan assists clients in developing and executing their own Rites of Passage. Examples are celebration (birthday), acknowledging the arrival of the new (menopause) or releasing the past (divorce).
A well-known, mysterious magical tool is the tarot. The beautiful intricate symbolism of the cards provide an attractive pathway into the intuitive and psychic realms. When Susan reads for clients, she works with the cards to offer understanding and guidance.

In the area of wellness, Susan is a Karuna and Usui reiki master, also a certified reflexologist. She augments her private sessions with aromatherapy, colour and tuning forks. All are ways of focusing, harmonizing and directing universal energy to promote balance and healing­physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.

Susan is gifted in the realm of creativity. Having spent many years as a theatre artist, she is well able to assist others in accessing their own creativity which adds a magical depth and sparkle to life.

Also intuitive, Susan has worked to increase her perception, studying with such teachers as David Morehouse ("psychic spy" of the CIA's Stargate Program). Learning to pay attention to intuition and to access truth for oneself is perhaps the most empowering step anyone can take.

As her chosen path to healing her own personal psychology, Susan immersed herself in Celtic shamanism, completing the Master level. She was attracted to its highly magical disciplines­journeying to Otherworld (the invisible realms), meeting spirit guides, power animals and the elementals in order to communicate and work with them, far seeing, dream walking, crafting magical tools, storytelling and writing poetry. Susan particularly enjoys assisting clients to connect with their spirit guides and power animals.

Susan offers classes in all the magical areas. As a bard (artist-shaman) in the Celtic tradition she often entwines music, stories and poetry with her teaching as the arts provide magical short-cuts into the invisible realms and promote spiritual understanding.

Swain Wodening

Englatheois a religous group dedicated to the revival of the ancient pagan religions of the Anglo-Saxons, specificly the Angles. Its aims are to bring back Anglo-Saxon Heathen religous practices in all forms both social and individual. This requires that we revive the worship of the ancient Anglo-Saxon pagan Gods and Goddesses, the rites through which we worship them, as well as the social institutions, customs, and traditions of the ancient Germanic tribes. To do so we attempt to forge and strengthen the bonds of community within our organization. The group is a part of a larger movement known as Theodish Belief, a form of Germanic Heathenry closely related to Asatru and Odinism.

Anglo-Saxon Heathenry is a modern religion based on the ancient pagan tribal religions of the Germanic tribes that moved into what is now England in the 5th century. These tribes are generally thought to be the Angles, Jutes, and Saxons, although portions of other tribes such as the Frisians may have migrated also. It is therefore closely related to the ancient Norse pagan religion and shares many of the deitites such as Odin (Woden) and Thor (Thunor).

Theodish Belief means "belief of the tribe," and comes from Old English Þéodisc Geléafa. Theodism maintains that worship of the Germanic Gods and Goddesses is best done in the form of a community. Therefore the community in the form of the theod or tribe is of utmost importance. Theodish Belief does not only reconstruct the religious beliefs of the ancient Germanic tribes, but also its cultural aspects as well. A theod is lead by a sacral leader who has certain duties they must perform to ensure the luck, health, and wealth of the tribe. The sacral leader is aided by an advisory council. Helping lead the tribe is the folkmoot, the free assembly of all adult members of the tribe.The folk come together to worship the Ése (Æsir) and Wen (Vanir) on a regular basis to strengthen the bonds between the folk and the Anglo-Saxon Heathen Gods and Goddesses. In doing so they also strengthen the bonds between each other.

Teresa Brouwer

Teresa Brouwer was born in 1966 on Long Island, New York. After graduating high school, she married young and was faced with abuse in her life for ten years. Battling with depression, she turned to writing as a form of therapy. It was there that a career was born.

Since her divorce, she has been on a spiritual journey. Teresa is simply an Eclectic Spiritual Being who enjoys and embraces many things in life. She works everday on her spiritual blog called, *Spiritual Expression:* http://healingmyself2.blogspot.com/

Teresa has many creative outlets that include painting and designing handmade greeting cards. In addition, she is an author of a book for mothers and daughters.

Terri Mapes

Bio from About.com:

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." ~ Mark Twain

Experience:

Passionate about Scandinavia, Terri is fascinated by Scandinavia's culture and rich history. While at university, Terri worked as a visitors guide in two Swedish cities, and after completing her education, she soon devoted her time to travel writing.

Terri's practical advice has been publicized in print and on the web since 1999. She has authored travel tips for local magazines and Scandinavian tourist brochures, and today specializes in giving first-time Scandinavia visitors practical tips for their travels. Terri can be found traveling around Sweden, Norway or Denmark on a regular basis, and sometimes even extends her trips into the surrounding Nordic regions.

From Terri Mapes:

"Travelers and others interested in Scandinavia need a site which provides all the information necessary to enjoy a great personalized trip to these wonderful countries. I love to travel across Scandinavia by myself or with friends and family and share old and new tips with other travelers. I am always excited to receive suggestions, questions and reviews for new locations in order to add the travel information you want!"

The Celtic Witch

Tim Hallinan

Tim Hallinan is a landscape designer and builder in Massachusetts. Visit his garden resource website for all kind of helpful information, including more garden guides.

Tracy Brown

Tracy Brown is the former owner of the online metaphysical store Witch Basket.  The website can still be found at www.witchbasket.com and is now a place where Witch Basket friends and family can gather and learn.  Tracy enjoys celebrating the Feminine Divine, claims no expertise, and invites all to read, ponder, and enjoy. It's a beautiful world, one just needs to know where to look.

True Ghost

"At True Ghost Tales we delve into the supernatural with visitor submitted true ghost stories, ghost pictures, haunting articles, EVPs, poltergeists, werewolves and more paranormal topics. We have a lot of resources for ghost hunters and everyone interested in the paranormal world. The blog is updated every day with new ghost stuff. We also have an archived section of ghost stories and for those of you who like to interact with others who are into the paranormal we have a forum."...http://www.trueghosttales.com/

Washington Irving

ashington Irving was born in New York City (near present-day Wall  Street) at the end of the Revolutionary War on April 3, 1783.  His parents, Scottish-English immigrants, were great admirers of General George Washington, and named their son after their hero.

Irving had many interests including writing, architecture and landscape design, traveling, and diplomacy. He is best known, however, as the first American to make a living solely from writing. Initially, he wrote under pen names;  one was "Diedrich   Knickerbocker." In 1809, using this pen name, Irving wrote A History of New-York that describes and pokes fun at the lives of the early Dutch settlers of  Manhattan. Eventually, this pen name came to mean a person from New York, and is where the basketball team The New York Knickerbockers (Knicks)got its name.

Irving enjoyed visiting different places and a large part of his life was spent  in Europe, particularly England, France, Germany, and Spain.  He often wrote about the places he visited. For example, Bracebridge Hall (1822) is a view of life in England, and The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (1828), is about the Italian explorer who sailed under the Spanish flag. However, in spite of his foreign travels, Irving's imagination frequently drew upon his childhood memories of New York State.  These memories are reflected in letters that he wrote to family and friends from Europe, as well as in the stories from his most famous work, The Sketch-Book. Published in 1819 under another pen name, "Geoffrey Crayon, Gent," The Sketch-Book includes the short stories The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and  Rip Van Winkle.  The fictional Sleepy Hollow is actually the lower Hudson Valley area near Tarrytown, N.Y., and Rip Van Winkle sleeps through the entire Revolutionary War in the Catskill mountains of  upstate New York.    

By the late 1820s, Irving had gained a reputation throughout Europe and America as a great writer and thinker. Because of his popularity, Irving received many important honors.  This Spanish were so pleased with Irving's writing that in 1828, they elected him to the Real Academia de la Historia.  In 1830, Irving received a gold medal in history from the Royal Society of Literature in London, and also received honorary degrees from Oxford, Columbia, and  Harvard.

Trained as a lawyer, Irving was active in the field of diplomacy.  In 1842, American President Tyler appointed him Minister to Spain - a position we would now call ambassador. This meant he traveled throughout Europe as a diplomatic representative of the United States.    

Feeling a desire to be among fellow Americans and his family, in 1832 Irving returned from Europe to New York where he established his home Sunnyside in Tarrytown.  Irving never married or had children.  Rather, for the next twenty-five years he shared Sunnyside with his brother Ebenezer and Ebenezer's five daughters. During this period, when Irving traveled or was sent on a diplomatic mission, he always had a home and family to which to return.    

Sunnyside was visited By many artists, politicians, writers, and other influential people.  Irving's home was publicized throughout the world in lithographs, magazines, and tourists maps. Images of  Sunnyside could even be found on cigar boxes, sheet music, and ceramic pitchers.    

On November 28, 1859, on the eve of the Civil War, Washington Irving died at Sunnyside surrounded by his family. He was buried in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery at the Old Dutch Church in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y. 

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Witch Hazel

Witch Hazel is Morbid Outlook's very own gothic advisor in pagan and herbal solutions. She is very knowledgeable and has over 15 years experience in home remedies and the pagan arts. She can be contacted via e-mail  with your questions or suggestions.

Wren

Wren writes regularly for Witchvox.com; a fantastic website full of information, events, groups and other Pagan related inofrmation.

www.novareinna.com

Beautifully put together website offering a vast knowledge of all different Holidays and more. Visit today to begin your Journey through Novareinna.com

~MoJo~

MoJo, aka Joanie Duessler, is a recent transplant to the rolling hills of Missouri. After enjoying 30 years in the midst of a bustling metropolis she is now enjoying the peace and solitude of 30 acres on her beloved Dancing Dragon Ranch. Recently married and now living the life of a self-described "ranch princess", MoJo spends her time writing, painting, constructing custom jewelry, taking care of her hubby and her six kitties, and photographing everything in sight. Often taking road trips and venturing into new spiritual territory, you can find her thoughts and photographs on her myspace page at www.myspace.com/mojoanmagick.