Collecting and collating the memories and experiences of Pagans from all paths, traditions and identities
For the past five years now I have been the official TDN rep for the Interfaith Network UK. Recently that has involved me attending several meetings a year in London which, when you consider I live in Glasgow, is no small undertaking. This usually involves me booking return flights from Glasgow to Heathrow and then travelling …
THE KEY TO THE DOOR I don’t know who writes the rulebook on exactly when a middle-aged witch gets to advance or graduate to cronehood, but I am in my last few months of my 40’s, and for some reason, I feel like 50, should I be lucky enough to make it there, might be …
There was a moment before I could talk that my parents popped their heads around the door to see me babble….pause and babble some more to a particular spot of unseen in the Victorian mid-terraced. I look back on their story-telling and conjure up a red-headed man sporting a simple moustache wearing a tweed suit. …
A Day for Patricia Crowther: Sunday 6th April 2014 It would be true to say that I have left my own Wiccan Roots behind and yes; there is a pun in that comment. Although Gardnerian Witchcraft influenced Paganism is where I began my journey and although I have changed to reach a point some twenty …
My Journey – My Crooked Path In the summer of 2018 I was asked to present a talk at the Nottingham Pagan Network Moot. I was given only two parameters. The talk was to be no more than thirty minutes long and on the subject of Paganism. Now thirty minutes isn’t very long and Paganism …
I was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, in 1953. My Dad was a bus cleaner, and I was the youngest of four children living in a council house on a rough council estate. This became a problem when I passed the 11+ to attend Northgate Grammar School. Kids who had known me on the estate at …
MY PAGAN JOURNEY My experience of being Pagan has been like many people’s experience of being gay – it was not something I decided to become; it was what I came to realise I was. My first memory of any spiritual thought was in primary school when a teacher answered a question about a picture …
Me So I began my journey as a very young child aged 4/5 I was very aware of energies outside in the weather in the plants with the animals and I’d sing a talk to them. See and feel things when I did so and always feel safe and protected as a child by these …
I’ve been a pagan all of my life without being conscious of it but I do remember how my interest began. From a very young age I watched my mother practise Yoga. She used to put her legs behind her head and twist her body into all shapes; her breathing changed like the air in …
A Glimpse of the extraordinary experiences of Frank Edmund Earp, Pagan Elder. Accompanying this post are three short stories of individual accounts of my earliest encounters with paranormal entities. They are taken from a book, ‘Paranormal Nottingham’, which I was commission to write by Amberley publishers. The book was pulled at the last minute because …