Why buy the Lughnasa 2008 Edition?

White Dragon is one of the few pagan magazines aimed at the more knowledgeable and advanced magical reader. Instead of spells, rituals, cringingly naff 'poetry' and interviews with pagan 'celebrities', we specialise in well-written and meticulously researched articles and honest book reviews with a bias towards the academic and serious publishers rather than repetitive mass-market books churned out for the neo-pagan market.

In addition each issue contains a selection of historical, archaeological and environmental news items of pagan interest and relevance, readers' letters and an extensive listing of events up and down the UK.

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FEATURED ARTICLES

  • TRADITIONAL WITCHCRAFT - The term "traditional witchcraft" brings us face to face with two of the most semantically complex words in the occult dictionary, yet understanding how they have been used in the past, what they have encompassed and how they have evolved into the present are key to understanding what we might mean by "traditional witchcraft" argues Shani Oates.

 

  • REVISITING THE REGENCY - The Regency, which emerged after the death of Robert Cochrane and was led by members of Cochrane's group, is one of the lesser known elements of British occult history. More than 20 years after it ceased to operate, Ken Rees revisits the group, its activities and its leaders.
  • BLACK MAGIC FOR WHITE FOLKS - In recent years western pagans, witches and magicians have been exploring the Hoodoo magic of the African Diaspora - even if they quietly ignore or even deny this is what they're drawing on. Jonny Cole examines the rise of Hoodoo amongst white practitioners.

 

  • GUY OF WARWICK AND ST GEORGE - Guy of Warwick features in medieval romance as a questing knight fighting dragons and rescuing fair damsels - which may have led to his legend being confused with a West Midlands slant on St George. But where does the Green Man fit in? Ian Chambers suggests some answers.

 

FLAMING THE DRAGON

  • Readers' Letters

THE ENVIRONMENTAL SLOT - by Barry Walker

  • Saving Bill Brock (more on the proposed badger cull)

ROWAN'S RANT

Editorial

 

BOOKS AND OTHER REVIEWS

  • PEOPLE AND THE SKY: Our Ancestors and the Cosmos – Anthony Aveni
  • THE HAUNTED - A SOCIAL HISTORY OF GHOSTS – Owen Davies
  • WITCHCRAFT AND THE ACT OF 1604 – Edited by John Newton and Jo Bath.
  • SOLVING STONEHENGE: The New Key to an Ancient Enigma– Anthony Johnson
  • DICTIONARIES OF CIVILIZATION SERIES: Mesopotamia: Assyrians, Sumerians, Babylonians – Edited by E Ascalone.
  • EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT PAGANISM – Selene Silverwind
  • SEPULCHRE – Kate Moss (Fiction)
  • THE LAST WITCHFINDER – James Morrow (Fiction)

 

ODDS ‘N’ SODS

  • First farmers made 'lucky beads'
  • Excavations of the Ring of Brodgar
  • Cerne Abbas giant in danger of disappearing
  • Famous ‘Etruscan’ she-wolf statue is really medieval
  • Roman ceremonial lance found at Caerleon
  • Sex curse found at ancient Cyprus site
  • Neolithic men were prepared to fight for their women
  • King Arthur is propaganda, say French
  • Norfolk poppy fields under threat from EU farming rules
  • Britain's largest collection on the supernatural may be broken up and sold
  • Burning joss sticks a cancer risk
  • Off-roaders banned on ancient lanes
  • Wild mustangs being sacrificed in Western land grab