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| 1- Preliminary hearings in the Salem Witch trials held, 1692 - Birthday of the Golden Dawn, 1888 - Covenant of the Goddess (COG) formed, 1975 4- Church of All Worlds incorporates in Missouri, 1968, becoming the first Pagan church to incorporate in the U.S. 6- Birthday of Laurie Cabot, Wiccan author 7- William Butler Yeats initiated into the Isis-Urania Temple of the Golden Dawn, 1890 10- Date recorded for first meeting of Dr. John Dee and Edward Kelly, 1582 - Dutch clairvoyant and psychic healer Gerard Croiser born, 1909 12- Stweart Edward White, psychic researcher, born, 1873; he later became president of the American Society for Psychical Research in San Francisco 14- Jacques de Molay, head of the Knights Templar in France, retracts his confession of heresy before being burned at the stake, 1314 15- Pete Pathfinder Davis becomes the first Wiccan priest elected as president of the Interfaith Council of Washington State, 1995 17- Eleanor Shaw and Mary Phillips executed in England for bewitching a woman and her two children, 1705 18- Birthday of Edgar Cayce, psychic researcher, 1877 19- Elizabethan statute against witchcraft enacted, 1563; this statute was replaced in 1604 by a stricter one from King James I 20- Death of Lady Sheba, author of The Book of Shadows, 2002 21- Mandate of Henry VIII against witchcraft enacted, 1542; repealed in 1547 - Green Egg magazine founded, 1968 22- Pope Clement urged by Phillip IV to supress Templar order, 1311 24- Birthday of Alyson Hannigan, who played Willow on Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Arrest of Florence Newton, one of the few Witches burned in Ireland, 1661 25- Pope Innocent III issues bull to establish the Inquisition, 1199 26- Birthday of Joseph Campbell, author and professor of mythology, 1910 28- Scott Cunningham dies of complications casued by AIDS, 1993 31- Last Witch trial in Ireland, held at Magee Island, 1711 |
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