What Is The True Purpose Of Halloween

Pagans, witches and goths alike were all Hollywoodified and categorized as people who sacrifice for rituals and speak to the devil. Halloween is no exception to the rule. So, what is Halloween?

The Horrible Reality That We Live In

When scrolling around on social media, I came across one person who said she posted a picture of herself in a Halloween costume. Nothing alarming, but then she mentioned Christians trying to tell her that Halloween is a day of sacrifices for Pagans and witches.

I don’t take well to people who spread wrong information. That is because I know how much damage it could cause. The truth and solid facts are important because they can hurt a group of people or anything that isn’t responsible for the lies being spread.

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The Witch Trial Of Salzburg In Austria

The witch trials in Europe spread throughout the continent, and some of the most tragic are the most famous. So, let us visit one of the most famous cases in the 300 years of witch trials!

The Overall View Of The Salzburg Witch Trials

The most known witch trials occurred from 1675 to 1690 in Salzburg. The trial had many names, including the Zauberjackl trials, the Salzburg witch trials, and the Witch Jackls process.

The process of the witch trials led to the death of a hundred and thirty-nine people. Austria wasn’t a kind place for witches, but rather nightmarish, and it is one of the reasons for this case to be so famous. Another reason is that most of the victims were males.

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The September Equinox We Know As Mabon

Fall is many of us’ favourite seasons. We wait for the turning of colours, the temperatures lowering, the rain coming in, the smell of the earth swirling in the wind mixed with hot beverages and comforting perfumes of cinnamon and cloves. So, why not celebrate Mabon, too?

The Wheel Of The Year Stops On Mabon

The Wheel of the Year is a holiday calendar quite precious to us Witches who practice Nature celebrations. Many of us know Samhain due to many movies and Yuletide going through a revival with the Frozen franchise and Krampus.

But if we go in order and remain with the big eight celebrations it starts with the Winter Solstice called Yuletide, then Imbolc, followed by the Spring Equinox called Ostara.

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Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Who Is This Bloody Mary?

As a child, we all played that little scary game of going in the bathroom with one candle in front of the mirror to say her name three times. Many legends arose about who she was, but who is she?

Do You Remember The Game From Your Childhood?

Bloody Mary is one of the classic spooky games that requires nothing to play except a bathroom. The goal of the game remained the same. Players must try to summon the ghost of Bloody Mary with a lit candle by looking in a bathroom mirror.

The player stares at their reflection while reciting the name Bloody Mary three times. Some other variation says to do it five times. The player is often a volunteer, but if none speaks up, it is often decided by drawing straws, and who has the shortest straw goes in the bathroom.

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Paganism Is Growing, And So Is Mabon

We often put aside pagan practices for the commercial ones that spread throughout all stores and houses. However, after centuries, for the first time in forever, Paganism is pushing back and here’s a holiday for you!

How Holidays And Celebrations Happen In Paganism

The Wheel of the Year is split into eight segments called Sabbats. They honour the Moon Goddess and the Sun God while celebrating the cycle of life of the sun. They focused the eight Sabbats of the year on the Solar Rites of Wicca. As life comes and goes, the Wheel represents it.

The Sabbats comprise the four “quarter days” known as solstices and equinoxes. So, the other four days include the four midpoints in between, known as the “cross-quarter days.” The embryonic growth, the birth, the life, and then the death of the Sun God portray nature’s seasons and the life of a Wiccan.

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A DIY Halloween Dog Bandana

For the month of Halloween, our writer, James Vaughan, came up with this great idea of showing you how to make your very own dog bandana for Halloween! No reason to exclude our furry friends out of the Halloween fun!

No Rejection for the Furry Monsters!

Greetings, Biters. For this occasion, I thought I’d do something unique and teach you how to make one of my favorite projects a pet bandana.

After all, every witch has her cat, every demon needs a faithful hell hound, and what’s a Vampire without bats.

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Zombie A Reanimated Corpse

The term comes from Haitian folklore, where a zombie is a dead body reanimated through various methods, most commonly magic.

Haitian Origins

The Oxford English Dictionary gives the origin of the word as West African and compares it to the Kongo words nzambi and zumbi. — Wikipedia… Zombie a reanimated corpse.

Making its entrance in the historical records in the year 1819 from a historical event happening in the country of Brazil through the poet Robert Southey, the word zombi surfaces for the first time.

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The Exorcist Review

It doesn’t matter how old you are. The Exorcist is one of the most horrifying possession movies of all time if not the number one.

The Summary Of A Possession

The Exorcist shocked people when it released. It still takes people by surprise today. The Exorcist review is now overdue at GBM!

Demonic possession is believed by some to be the process by which malevolent preternatural beings possess individuals, commonly referred to as demons or devils.

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Gravedigger Cake

Greetings Gothic Bite ghoul-readers! I’m James the Skeleton in the Closet with my first ever article for the blog! To introduce myself, let me tell you about my Gravedigger Cake.

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