On 21/02/2013 21:53, Melissa Harrington wrote:
cheers melissa
I tend to agree with others on the phoney nature of the "satanic"
calendars -
although i wonder if you have something about kevin carlyon who released
something to local press (in oxfordshire) saying that mutilations at
white horse hill were local pagans re-enacting horse sacrifice as per
geoffrey of monmouth thing/lammas ? Which was shockingly stupid thing to
say but might interest the article - i thought vets say most of the
mutilations are done by other horses - ie kicking biting etc?
The temple of Seth did once try to use a revised egyptian calendar but
they couldn't make it work -
although my own researches have come up with a more
workable model. Interesting that recent discoveries show that the
egyptians did mark the cross quarter days -
ie Imbolc/1st feb - which in neo paganism is associated with Bridgit /
Smithcraft ?
Just a thought
http://www.scribd.com/doc/26149065/Egyptian-ritual-year-for-recon-Kemetics-etc
Mogg
see you soon
> Thanks for that Dave!
>
> I will re-email those emails to the kind folk who have replied to me
> directly.
>
> Regarding the Satanic Calendar one can find it if one googles www
> survivorship . org / resources / altcalendar
> should work with or without the gaps I put them in to fool your filter.
>
> regards
>
> Melissa.
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> Hi Melissa,
>
> The list does not permit attachments as a quick way of avoiding
> viruses, spam, etc. It can be very frustrating.
>
> Dave
>
> Dr Dave Green
>
> Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of the West of England,
> Bristol, UK
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> Dear Sabina.
>
> Thank you for letting me know about the links, I don't get a copy of
> mail I
> send to the forum, I have tried again here. If it does not work I can
> give
> people the key words that go straight to these articles. And thanks
> also for
> your response, do you, or anyone else here, have any more information
> about
> these right-wing Christian extremists who have conconcted the
> calendar from
> a variety of sources to "inform" law enforcement about "Satanic ritual
> crime." ? Obviously Jean la Fontaine's work on the British satanic
> panic in
> the 1980s is an important resource in such matters, but is there any
> new
> scholarly or concrete information on these newer developments? I had
> really
> not thought I would end up here in such a paper, 20 minutes on "Elf
> knots,
> mysteries since Shakespeare and beyond, now solved by Horse and Hound
> Magazine readers" seemed so pleasant; yet in dealing with stories of
> Witches
> it all too often comes back to this terrible battle that is waged without
> end by those who want to fight the "forces of darkness" by means fair or
> foul!
>
> best regards
>
> Melissa
>
>
>
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2085564/Eric-horse-sacrificed-Satanic-ritual.
>
>
> www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/4060369/Cornwalls-fear-after-ritual-slaughter-of-horses.html
>
>
> http://www.survivorship.org/index.html
>
> http://www.survivorship.org/resources/altcalendar.html
>
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>
> Dear Melissa,
>
> The links you promised to attach did not go through, but if the "Satanic
> calendar" is anything like a similar piece of folklore circulating in the
> US, it has no correspondence to anything that modern Satanists practice.
> Instead, it is the product of a small number of right-wing Christian
> extremists who have conconcted it from a variety of sources to
> "inform" law
> enforcement about "Satanic ritual crime." This links up to the Satanic
> legend complex of the 1980s, which is returning in new guise or, in some
> cases, never fully subsided.
>
> Fascinating project, BTW!
>
> All the best,
> Sabina
>
> Sabina Magliocco
> Professor
> Department of Anthropology
> California State University - Northridge
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> Dear All
>
> I am starting on a paper for the Folklore Society's AGM in April on Urban
> Folklore. My original abstract is relatively simple for a very nice
> topic -
> early examples of folklore on mystery braids in horses manes linked to
> witches and fairies that have reached the modern day almost intact,
> how the
> folklore may have started, how it is perpetuated today by press,
> police and
> ignorance, and how social networking may be ending this long running
> myth.
> Much as I wanted to avoid this, and though the link is yet small, it
> seems
> the subject is merged at the edges with the understandable hype and fear
> round horse mutilations, and how they are linked to Satanism in the
> press. I
> have added 4 links below, one shows how detailed such accounts are,
> the next
> shows how totally unconnected Pagans are linked to it, in this case
> taking
> photos from Cornwall's village Witches’ web site and adding them in,
> and the
> next two links show what may be a source for the mysterious St Winebald's
> Day, apparently one of ritual sacrifice on which one may expect one's
> horses
> to be slaughtered. It seems like it is the old chestnut of
> fundamentalists
> and recovered memory nutters feeding press with such calendars, in which
> they include modern Pagan dates, in which case there may be new urban
> folklores starting with echoes of the SRA events of the late 20th
> century.
> However, unlike the braiding which seems to be simple “wind knots” rather
> than “witch knots”, there have been reports of horrible animal
> mutilations
> over the years that do seem to be ritualised in some ways, this is
> probably
> the activity of sinister nutters, but what kind of nutter and why?
>
> I would value comments on any aspect of this from people on this
> forum, and
> particularly those who are scholars of contemporary Satanism, could you
> comment on these calendars please, I have never heard of half these
> "festivals", are any of these dates celebrated, is there any link with
> modern Satanic rites and any of these purported saints days, revels,
> feasts
> etc?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Melissa=
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