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: The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44375-2003Oct30.html

On October 31, 2003 The Washington Post reported on a new book on Wiccans that applies social science techniques and unearths certain demographic patterns. "Typically, Wiccans are white, college-educated and middle class, according to 'Voices from the Pagan Census: A National Survey of Witches and Neo-Pagans in the United States,' which polled 2,000 believers...