For hundreds of years, community practitioners and folk magicians with natural gifts for healing, divination, and treasure hunting known colloquially as "cunning folk" operated largely unmolested by secular and religious authorities; the practice disappeared over time except in remote rural areas. Now it seems that the rise in neopaganism and interest in magic in general is also bringing about a resurgence of interest in these largely forgotten talents. Check out Stella the "wart toucher" and Joe the "water witch," and Haryobintaro the "rain man ," or you can read more about the Cunning Folk at Owen Davies' excellent website.

Here's something you don't see much these days: a gigantic granite monument of the ten commanments has been unveiled in Toldeo, Ohio - only this one will reside where it belongs- on the lawn of the local Catholic Church.

Scientists at Johns Hopkins have discovered something that mystics, healers, and Shamans (as well as countless Hippies) have known for thousands of years- the psychedelic mushrooms can facilitate mystical experiences. Thanks agains, guys, for telling us what we already knew.

In a famous routine, late comedian Bill Hicks used to ask about the mysterious beings who surreptitiously place bibles in hotel nightstands, "Who the [bleep] are the Gideons?" Well, now you know.

An entrepreneur in Ventura, California, sells sex toys- but only to married, christian believers.