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7- Death of Thomas Aquinas, scholar who wrote that heresy was a product of ignorance and therefore criminal, and who refuted the Canon Episcopi, 1274
8- Birthday of Susan Weed, owner of Wise Woman Publishing - Birthday of Evangeline Adams, American astrologer, 1868
10- Zsuanna Budapest arrested and later convicted of fortunetelling, 1975
12- Gerald Gardener, founder of the Gardnerian tradition, dies of heart failure, 1964
14- Elsie Blum, a farmhand from Oberstedten, Germany, sentanced to death for witchcraft, 1652
15- Pope Leo X issues bull to ensure that the secular courts carry out executions of Witches convicted by the Inquisition, 1521: the bull was a response to the courts' refusal to carry out the work of the Church
20- Society for Psychical Research, devoted to paranormal research, founded in London, 1882
21- Birthday of Patricia Telesco, Wiccan author - Stweart Farra initiated into Alexandrian Wicca, 1970 - Death of Theodore Parker Mills, 1996
22- Birthday of ShadowCat, Wiccan author - Birthday of Sybil Leek, Wiccan author, 1922
27- Pope John XXII issues first bull to discuss the practice of witchcraft, 1318 - Birthday of Rudolph Steiner, philosopher and father of the biodynamic farming movement, 1861