Author: Samara Kalk Derby

Source: The Wisconsin State Journal

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/article_249d7369-dacc-5451-9e60-8c2c4b7d4a2b.html

On a warm, sunny Halloween day, a group of 20 people drove up a rural road at Circle Sanctuary, a nature-based pagan church and ecological preserve here, to spread and inter the ashes of one of their own.

Bruce Parsons, of Milwaukee, who...

Author: Christian Nolan

Source: Connecticut Law Tribune

http://www.ctlawtribune.com/getarticle.aspx?ID=35454

Like many people, Gina Uberti wanted to take time off from work for a religious holiday.

Unlike most Connecticut workers, her religion is Wicca, the largest of the neo-pagan, earth-based faiths. Wiccans worship multiple deities, use magic in their rituals, adhere to a basic code of morality, and hold four major seasonally based...

Author: Amanda Lutey

Source: The Daily Citizen

http://www.wiscnews.com/bdc/news/466590

An ancient celebration that evolved into Halloween and All Saints Day celebrations was observed this weekend.

A couple who live south of Cambria hosted more than 15 guests at their home on Saturday night for a Samhain ritual, led by the Rev. Peter Hertzberg.

Hertzberg is the chief priest at Northern Lakes Temple in Watertown, a Correllian Nativist Wiccan Church...

Source: Forward

http://www.forward.com/issues/2003/03.10.31/living1.html

On October 31, 2003 Forward published an article on Jewish "witches," or individuals who "have a strong sense of Jewish identity but also practice magic, cast spells and tend to identify with 'goddess-directed' worship. Their beliefs run the gamut from strict monotheists to those who worship a pantheon of goddesses... their numbers could be in the hundreds. In September, Jewitchery.com site...