After sharing The Spiritual Component of Autism (Pantheon) and reading the discussions that followed, I got to thinking about how medication effects... 4 Comments
I said in another post that I have finally come to terms with the fact that I am, and always have been, a Strega, which is an Italian 'witch'. Though... 8 Comments
I thought this might be of interest because it's an article about the women healers who later became the targets of the 'witch hunts'. It's a PDF... 4 Comments
1382, England: The first known association of Valentine's Day with romantic love is in 1382's "Parlement of Foules" by Geoffrey Chaucer, but the earliest origins of the holiday can be found hundreds of years earlier. The date was likely named in honor of a priest who was clubbed, stoned and then beheaded in the 3rd century for marrying young couples in contravention of Claudius II's edict forbidding marriage.
1537 England: King Henry VIII declared, by Royal Charter, that England would celebrate February 14th as "Saint Valentine's Day". The irony of a King, most remembered for having married six women, divorcing two and beheading another two, celebrating Valentine's Day doubtlessly
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