Wands and wine for imprisoned pagans By Richard Ford, Home Correspondent . October 17th 2005.
PAGAN priests will be allowed to use wine and wands during ceremonies in jails under instructions issued to every prison governor.
Inmates practising paganism will be allowed a hoodless robe, incense and a piece of religious jewellery among their personal possessions. They will also be allowed to have Tarot cards but are forbidden from using them to tell the fortunes of other prisoners.
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Suing witch doctors? Whatever next? Victoria Coren Sunday October 16, 2005. The Observer.
Did you read about the fellow who is taking a witch doctor to the trading standards authority? It's a terribly poignant story.
Kevin Bird from Cannock split up with his girlfriend and was very depressed about it. His worried mother gave him the business card of a Birmingham-based witch doctor called Mansor Barry.
No, I didn't know that witch doctors had business cards, either. I thought they just left a leopard's bone on the doorstep so you knew they'd been. But this is a 21st-century witch doctor: Mr Barry wears a suit and tie; he works in the Midlands and he looks more likely to help with your tax return than stick pins in a wax image of your troublesome neighbour.
Full article can be read here.
Ancient relic is 'once in a lifetime' finding. DinningtonToday.co.uk, October 14th 2005.
AN ANCIENT relic worth thousands of pounds was recently dug up on an Aughton farm � by a man who thought it was a milk bottle top.
AN ANCIENT relic worth thousands of pounds was recently dug up on an Aughton farm � by a man who thought it was a milk bottle top.
Metal detecting enthusiast Tim Pearson, of Denaby, found the gold Saxon aestel, which has the appearance of a four inch bottle, back in January this year and had no idea what it was.
"I've been going to that farm for six years and the only things I'd ever found was a Roman coin," he said. "I was off work at the time because I'd smashed my fingers. It was boring being at home so I decided to do some metal detecting. I was all ready for packing up when I heard the machine beeping."
Full article can be read here.
Cave discovery dispels lynx myth. - BBC News, October 10th 2005.
Bones found in caves in North Yorkshire have dispelled myths about the extinction of a British hunting cat.
The discovery in Moughton Fell Fissure Cave, near Settle, in the 19th Century led experts to believe the lynx became extinct in the UK 4,000 years ago.
But new carbon dating of other bones found at Kinsey Cave in the 1920s and 30s suggests the animals were still around in early medieval times.
Full article can be read here.
A 6,000-year Dales story of ritual and cannibalism...Sally Cope. Yorkshire Post Today. 8th October 2005.
Bone finds in Yorkshire caves finally throw light on stone age life after breakthrough in radio-carbon dating
THEY roamed the earth almost 6,000 years ago, performing rituals on animal remains and devouring human body parts.
But these are not the strange creatures of film or fiction � they were farmers in the Yorkshire Dales.
New research on bones discovered in six Dales caves has revealed that farming in the area dates back thousands of years � and with it a history of cannibalism.
Dated bones found in caves at the western edge of the limestone uplands have been taken as evidence of rituals that involved adult skulls and other body parts along with animal bones.
Full article can be read here.
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