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Pagan & Shinto News: Emperor Naruhito Completes Enthronement In Ceremony

Pagan & Shinto News: Emperor Naruhito Completes Enthronement In Ceremony

Last updated on: October 22, 2019 at 6:26 pm by Megan Manson

Pagan & Shinto News: Emperor Naruhito Completes Enthronement In Ceremony 2019-10-22T18:26:12+00:00 Megan Manson

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Trump opponents plan Halloween spell to bind him

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A week before Halloween, opponents of President Trump will gather in the thousands to cast a spell on the administration to prevent the administration from harming the country…

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Julie’s Cauldron, a store in Kirkville, New York, sells incenses, herbs and spices used for spell work, as well as handcrafted items…

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iNews
Samhain falls at the end of October and is said to usher in ‘the dark half of the year’…

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Everyone imagines that working in a witch shop at Samhain is the ultimate in witchdom. It is, and it can be, and yet, it remains so much more…

Shinto News

Emperor Naruhito completes enthronement in ceremony rich with history and ritual
The Japan Times
Sokui no Rei is one of the major events in a series of ceremonies and rites scheduled throughout the year following Emperor Naruhito’s accession to the chrysanthemum throne in May….

Japan’s ancient and mysterious royal regalia
CNN
Amid the speeches, customary robes and ancient rituals of the enthronement of Japan’s new emperor Naruhito, one might easily overlook the collection of seemingly innocuous items carried in by palace officials…

Emperor to visit Ise shrine, ancestors’ mausoleums
Kyodo News
Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako are scheduled to visit Ise Jingu, a Shinto shrine in Mie Prefecture, central Japan, and mausoleums of previous monarchs by the end of this year as part of the rituals marking the imperial succession…

Japan funding for imperial ceremonies spark rare dissent
France24
When it comes to Japan’s royal family, anti-monarchy sentiment is almost non-existent. But government funding for two highly symbolic imperial rituals this year has sparked rare dissent…

Seiichi Eto becomes first Japan minister to visit Yasukuni Shrine in over two years
The Japan Times
Seiichi Eto, minister in charge of Okinawa and Northern Territories affairs, visited the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine on Thursday, becoming the first Cabinet minister to do so in over two years…

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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe skipped a visit to Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine during its four-day autumn festival that ended on Sunday…

Japanese beating path to shrine to pray for victory
The Times
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Archaeologists have found the remains of a “mortuary house” from the Viking age…

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Bishop bans yoga for being ‘unchristian’
The Tablet
Catholic schools under the patronage of the Diocese of Waterford and Lismore have been told by their bishop not to do yoga in the classroom because it is not Christian…

Thieves steal Amazon fertility statues as synod nears end
ABC News
Pope Francis’ controversial meeting on the Amazon took a criminal twist Monday after thieves stole indigenous fertility statues from a Vatican-area church and tossed them into the Tiber River…

Cotswold Ghost Tours stopped in vicar ‘harassment’ row
BBC News
The vicar said he had concerns the tours were “un-Christian” and “bordering on the occult”…

Plans to rebuild lighthouse as memorial to Fife ‘witches’ in Torryburn scrapped
The Courier
The Fife Witches Remembered group had hoped villagers would get behind plans to reinstate the Beamer beacon in memory of those who were persecuted including local woman Lilias Adie…

Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins: Play ‘heals’ wounds in Essex
BBC News
A woman is attempting to “heal the wounds” caused by the infamous Witchfinder General by performing a play at sites where he tortured women into confessions in the 17th Century…

Venture Security awarded contract to protect Stonehenge
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Venture Security, which provides specialist security services to local authorities, has been awarded the contract by English Heritage…

Mary Katrantzou’s wondrous fashion show at the Ancient Greek temple of Poseidon
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London-based Greek designer Mary Katrantzou might have just created one of the most wondrous moments in fashion history: Instead of hosting her Spring/Summer 2020 fashion show in London, Paris, Milan or New York like everybody else, she staged hers at the Ancient Greek temple of Poseidon…

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Every year, thousands trek to a mountainside in Venezuela for rituals played out with fire, blood and smoke to pay tribute to the indigenous goddess Maria Lionza, who is revered across the crisis-stricken South American nation…

A royal obsession with black magic started Europe’s most brutal witch hunts
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We Need More Stories About POC Witches
Nerdist
It’s pretty easy to name witchy TV shows and films with primarily White female protagonists…

India: 10 arrested in witchcraft torture case in Odisha
Catch News
Ten persons have been arrested for allegedly pulling out the teeth of a 55-year-old man and forcing him to consume human excreta after suspecting him of practising witchcraft in Ganjam district, police said on Monday…

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