Dear Charles and Mogg
Thank you for your replies,
Charles, that's interesting research, if you have a copy of that paper
would you be able to send me one?
Mogg, yes indeed Kevin Carlyon has come up, though not that particular
reference which I will seek out. I am correlating reports at the moment then
will look at how they evolve over time, so far it does seem that press links
from braiding+theft+witches to braiding+witches+satanists+sacrifice have
been readily voluntered by Kevin, then widely copied by press, inc the
Telegraph and Guardian pretty much plagiarising the Bridport news! But I
need to wait till I have got it all in a document to be sure, and the
"calendar" looks like it is from another source, as in journos finding it on
Satanic Panic promotion sites, contacting Inform as suggested as another
source of scholarly information will be very helpful for me in this.
If you search under "Witches blamed for Sussex horse plaits" you will find
Kevin being Kevin, for anyone who is not aware of this man, who frequently
makes such proclamations to the ire of occultists and Pagans, they might
like to try "Kevin Carlyon Fortean Times Wicca Man" for a description.
I've got to dash and I'm out for the rest of the day, but thanks once again
for all the helpful replies.
regards
Melissa.
----- Original Message -----
From: "mandrake" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 9:28 AM
Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Satanic calendar?
> 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.
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Green" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 9:03 PM
>> Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Satanic calendar?
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>> Society for the Academic Study of Magic (SASM):
>> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC
>>
>> Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=653230719
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Society for The Academic Study of Magic
>> [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Melissa Harrington
>> [[log in to unmask]]
>> Sent: 21 February 2013 20:09
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Satanic calendar?
>>
>> 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
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Magliocco, Sabina" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 7:02 PM
>> Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Satanic calendar?
>>
>>
>> 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
>> [log in to unmask]
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Society for The Academic Study of Magic
>> [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Melissa Harrington
>> [[log in to unmask]]
>> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 10:26 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Satanic calendar?
>>
>> 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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