It was on this day in 1648 that the Massachusets Bay Colony carried out America's first execution for witchcraft. The victim was Margaret Jones, a healer and midwife, a profession not much respected by Boston's Puritan population. Margaret was hanged to death after patients suffered seizures she could not cure.

An Australian paper appears to confuse Paganism with pedophilia, describing a convicted sex abuser's plans to acquire victims in Ghana as "Wiccan rituals."

It's not all bad news, as the Scotsman does a very nice, illustrated write-up of Druids at the Callanish stones.

A gnostic resonds to some of the stranger accusations made in the media, which still seems under the impression that Gnosticism is an artifact of ancient history.

Egypt will soon become the latest country to ban the Da Vinci Code film, on the grounds that it is 'Zionist' and "violates freedom of thought and belief." They seem a bit unclear on the concept.

The Virgin Mary pops out of yet another tree. One one think she's a hamadryad at heart.

John the Baptist's Hand is reportedly touring Russia.

What to do if you catch your child smoking, drinking, or taking drugs? According to the makers of these 'biblical' spanking paddles, five swats. This site is so surreal I had to read it over a couple of times to be sure it wasn't a joke.