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Pagan & Shinto News: University Occult Club Fights For Funding And Campus Access

Pagan & Shinto News: University Occult Club Fights For Funding And Campus Access

Last updated on: March 27, 2022 at 10:50 am by Megan Manson

Pagan & Shinto News: University Occult Club Fights For Funding And Campus Access 2022-03-27T10:50:57+00:00 Megan Manson

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Top stories of the week in Paganism and Shinto:

Australia: Adelaide University Occult Club fights for funding and campus access with union registration decision delayed
Witches in Ukraine to perform ritual to ‘punish’ Putin
Fire ritual at quake-hit shrine in southwest Japan signals hope for rich harvest

Pagan News

Australia: Adelaide University Occult Club fights for funding and campus access with union registration decision delayed

ABC News
Adelaide University Occult Club fights for funding and campus access with union registration decision delayed. They have launched a petition to save the club.

Witches in Ukraine to perform ritual to ‘punish’ Putin
The Week
A group of witches in Ukraine is all set to hold a special three-step ritual to punish and oust Russian President Vladimir Putin, reports said. Kiev-based Witch Cauldron esoteric shop has put out a statement, saying the witches will perform the ritual in collaboration with their foreign partners…

US: Pueblo synagogue bomb plotter appeals ban on owning Thor’s hammer
The Pueblo Chieftain
A man convicted of plotting to blow up a historic synagogue in Pueblo in 2019 is appealing a condition of his sentence that bars him from possessing the Norse god Thor’s hammer…

Canada: Cape Breton Pagans launch new programs to combat food insecurity
CBC
A small Pagan society in North Sydney, N.S., is expanding community outreach and food insecurity programs with a new location for free meals and the addition of a community garden…

Pagan theologians share their thoughts on extraterrestrial life
The Wild Hunt
The Wild Hunt reached out to some Pagan writers and academics so that they might reveal to us a different perspective on the discussion of life beyond Planet Earth…

Shinto news

Fire ritual at quake-hit shrine in southwest Japan signals hope for rich harvest
The Mainichi
A fire ritual representing hopes for the productiveness of grain was held at Aso Shrine, which was heavily damaged in the April 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake, in this southwestern Japan city on March 20…

Crown Prince, Crown Princess may visit Ise Jingu in April
Nippon.com
Arrangements are underway for Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko to go to Mie, Nara and Kyoto prefectures in late April to visit Ise Jingu, a major Shinto shrine, and elsewhere, sources said Thursday…

Could a Secret Rite of Japanese Emperors have come from Eurasian nomadic tribes?
Japan Forward
The secret Daijosai ritual remains a mystery, but a new theory has been proposed that links Japan’s oldest traditions to a long cultural corridor through Eurasia…

Harbinger of spring: sakura start to bloom in Tokyo, elsewhere
The Asahi Shimbun
Spring is in the air in many parts of Japan, with reports of sakura starting to bloom bringing cheer to the hearts of those tired of winter…

How Trek to Yomi infuses Japanese history with Shinto mythology
CBR
Trek to Yomi’s gameplay features more than just striking cinematics and 2D battles一it also takes players through an authentic Edo period Japan…

Kamichu! is an overlooked yet charming iyashikei anime series
CBR
Falling into the iyashikei genre of anime, it’s a slice-of-life series about a girl who tries to figure out what kind of goddess she is after gaining powers literally overnight — and how the people around her try to help her use these abilities to aid the local shrine…

Other News

UK: Part of the way to Stonehenge to be restored to how ancient pilgrims saw it
The Guardian
Part of a ceremonial approach to the great circle of Stonehenge and a spot nearby where ancient hunter-gatherers shared feasts with the first British farmers have been saved from the threat of modern agriculture…

‘Earth Goddess’ artwork that will be UK’s tallest ceramic sculpture takes shape in Devon
The Guardian
Earth Goddess will soar 12 metres high over the town of St Austell, becoming south-west England’s answer to the Angel of the North…

Prominent Haitian Vodou priestess dies, and country mourns
The Associated Press
Euvonie Georges Auguste, a prominent Vodou priestess and secretary general of Haiti’s National Conference of Vodouists, has died, prompting expressions of mourning from national leaders on Wednesday…

‘Witch Hunts’ Past & Present

UK: Plans in place for memorial to those killed as ‘witches’
The National*
Plans are in motion for a national memorial dedicated to thousands of people who were killed after they were accused of ‘witchcraft’…

UK: Witches of Scotland campaigners shortlisted for Scotswoman of the Year award
Glasgow Times
A lucky collision of events propelled Claire Mitchell QC and Zoe Venditozzi into creating a campaign to right one of Scottish history’s greatest wrongs…

UK: ‘Misguided’ Nicola Sturgeon didn’t apologise to male ‘witches’
The Times*
A historian has criticised Nicola Sturgeon’s apology for “the deep misogyny” of Scotland’s witch-hunts by highlighting how men accounted for one in six executions…

Ghana: Depression amongst alleged witches high – Study
Modern Ghana
There is high level of depression amongst alleged ‘witches’ at the various alleged witches’ camps in the country further compromising their quality of life, a study has found…

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