Posts Tagged ‘pagan’
Days of the Dead
I had hoped to post the final part of Woman vs the Machine and press on with The Wolf story by now. I had also hoped to provide a seasonal horror short. I regret that I have been so busy with the world. Just a small note that traditionally in Saxon (old English) pagan tradition […]
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Ostara: Chased by the Hare
You probably know that the so-called Easter Bunny wasn’t a rabbit, but a hare. You probably know too that this hare is a manifestation of an Anglo-Saxon/Northern European Pagan goddess called variously Ostara, Oestre or Eostre (spellings vary), which gave its name to what Christians in North Western Europe later called Easter. The pagan festival […]
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Easter and Spanking
Ostara (often pronounced Estara) is the old Anglo-Saxon pagan festival spring festival with all its associations with fertility. In Anglo-Saxon England images of eggs, the March hare and other seasonal features were the norm. In some parts of England it was even the custom to gather bundles of twigs or rods to symbolise new growth. […]
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