Why buy the Lughnasa 2009 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. If you have not done so already, take a look at what WHITE DRAGON is about. or look below to see what's in the current edition. |
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FEATURED ARTICLES
Sin-Eating and its Relevance to the Craft
With the ousting of Roman Catholicism in Britain, the sacrament of Extreme Unction was replaced in folk tradition by Sin-Eating. Shani Oates explores the relationships between Robert Cochrane's Ritual Obervance to Candlemas, with its emphasis on purification, and the purification of the dying and recently dead.
Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm?
The discovery of a woman's skeleton in a hollow tree in Hagley Wood near Birmingham in 1943 has fascinated historians, folklorists, criminologists and not a few pagans ever since. Who was she, and do we know any more about her today than we did then? David Taylor investigates.
Fatal Attractions: The Sordid History of Love Spells
Love spells have had a long and murky history of exploitating and manipulating their targets. In fact, "romance" rarely comes into it at all. Jonny Cole takes a rather cynical tour of the love magic of cultures ancient and modern.
The Maxim of the Magus
To will, to dare, to know, to be silent. An ancient piece of magical wisdom that goes by more names than the Great Goddess. But is it still relevant to modern practitioners of the occult arts, and if so in what way? Thea Faye considers its value to us today.
ENVIRONMENT SLOT
Red and Grey
BOOKS AND OTHER REVIEWS
A SORCEROR'S TALE - Alex Ryrie
GRIMOIRES: A History of Magic Books - Owen Davies
ENGLISH HOLY WELLS: A Sourcebook - Jeremy Harte
MYSTERIOUS NORTHUMBERLAND - Rupert Matthews
MYSTERIOUS NORTHAMPTON - Daniel Codd
GREEN EGG OMELETTE: An Anthology of Art and Articles From the Legendary Pagan Journal - Ed Oberon Zell-Ravenheart
COVENSENSE - Patricia Crowther
THE WICCAN REDE: Couplets of the Law, Teachings and Enchantments - Mark Ventimiglia
HIDDEN SECRETS: Attract everything you want - Carl Nagel
RUNALJOD - GAP VAR GINNUNGA- Wardruna (CD)
ODDS N SODS
Dog Sacrifices Found in Medieval Hungarian Village
Clues to ancient invasion in DNA
Mediaeval 'vampire' skull found near Venice
Skeleton of village 'witch' to be re-buried
Is landmark an ancient calendar?
Archeologists find rare Maya panels in Guatemala
For sale on Loch Ness: Aleister Crowley's centre of dark sorcerY
Cat found buried in wall of house
Roman Temple may link Paganism and Christianity
Dorset Ridgeway's killing field: were victims Vikings or local heroes?
Four out of ten Britons believe in ghosts
Orchards may vanish by the end of the century