By Matt Cormack, November 2022 In March 2021 our Presiding Officer, Steffy Von Scott, and Deputy Presiding Officer, Helen Woodsford-Dean, wrote to several Scottish Government Ministers and MSPs regarding the results of the Pagan Discrimination Survey. There was an initial response from the Scottish Government to acknowledge they had received our letters in 2021. […]
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The Memorial Project Commemorating the Victims of the Orkney Witchcraft Trials
By Helen Woodsford-Dean, 2022 Between 2013 and 2019, Dr Ragnhild Ljosland and Helen Woodsford-Dean worked with the Orkney Heritage Society to install a small memorial to the victims of Orkney’s witch-trials. The original inspiration for the project came from a lecture given by Professor Liv Helene Willumsen in 2012, invited by the Centre for Nordic […]
On Leading the Pagan Prayer for COP26 Interfaith Vigil, Samhain, 2021
By Linda Haggerstone, 2021 As National Interfaith Officer for the SPF, and prior to taking on the role, I’m frequently asked two quite reasonable questions, “…but what do Pagans do?” This refers to both belief and action. The latter, I must highlight, especially concerns our relationships with and contributions to the wider world in which […]
Pagan Discrimination Survey Initial Results
By Steffy VonScott, March 2021 I would like to report to you about the Pagan Discrimination Survey in Scotland which took place in 2020. We have recently carried out an initial review of some of the preliminary responses to our first Pagan Discrimination Survey, and we feel deeply saddened to have to report to you […]
Wicca: An Introduction
By John Macintyre, 2005 Wicca is a Pagan witchcraft tradition; an approach to religion that combines both high magic and spellcraft within a religious framework that has a very strong emphasis on Goddess-worship. While probably the largest, the best known – in name at least – and most influential tradition within modern Paganism, Wicca is […]