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| 1- Birthday of Sir James Frazer, author of The Golden Bough,1854 4- Aquarian Tabernacle Church registered in Australia by Lady Tamara Von Forslun, 1994 6- Patricia Crowther's witchcraft radio show, A Spell of Witchcraft, airs in Britain, 1971 8- Birthday of MacGregor Mathers, one of the three original founders of the Golden Dawn,1854 - Death of Dion Fortune, 1946 9- Jamie Dodge wins lawsuit against the Salvation Army, which fired her based on her Wiccan religion, 1989 12- Mary Smith hanged in England; she had quarreld with neighbors, who said that the Devil appered to her as a black man, 1616 13- Final witchcraft laws repealed in Austria, 1787 14- Official Confession of Error by jurors of Salem Witch trials, 1696 - Human Be-In, a Pagan-style festival, takes place in San Francisco, attened by Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsburg, 1967 16- Birthday of Dr. Dennis Carpenter, Circle Sanctuary 19- Brthday of Dorothy Clutterbuck, who initated Gerald Gardener, 1880 25- Birthday of Rober Burns, Scottish poet, 1759 30- Birthday of Zsusanna Budapest, feminist Witch 31- Dr. Fian, believed to be the head of the North Berwick Witches, found guilty and executed for witchcraft in Scotland by personal order of King James VI (James I of England), 1591 |
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