Pagan Community Notes: Environmental Stewardship, Historic Milestones, and Regional Highlights

Published by The Wild Hunt August 6, 2026 Introduction: A Week of Community Milestones and Environmental Action In this week’s edition of Pagan Community Notes, The Wild Hunt explores a diverse array of developments across the modern Pagan, occult, and Earth-centered spiritual landscapes. From high-profile political responses by the Aquarian Tabernacle Church (ATC) and the…

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What the Hounds? Navan Fort Protests, Tennessee Politics, and Florida Courtrooms Collide in a Bizarre News Cycle

By The Wild Hunt | August 4, 2026 Welcome to the inaugural edition of “What the Hounds?”—a new weekly roundup from The Wild Hunt dedicated to the stories that make our editors stop, reread the headline, and mutter, “Wait… what?” Sometimes the Hounds are simply confused. Sometimes they sniff the trail, tilt their heads, and…

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Decades of Obsession: The Arrest and Hospitalization of Benjamin Lewis and the Struggle Against Occult Stereotyping

SALISBURY, England — A multi-decade saga of targeted church vandalism, animal theft, and bizarre psychological fixation reached a legal conclusion this week when a Hampshire man was ordered to be detained indefinitely in a medium-secure psychiatric facility. Benjamin Lewis, whose systematic desecration of rural English churches caused widespread terror, deep community distress, and an extensive…

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Cultivating Connection: How Indigenous Foodways Offer a Path Beyond the Industrial Diet

VANCOUVER, Wash. — For decades, modern conversations surrounding food ethics have remained trapped in a polarizing binary. Consumers are routinely forced to navigate a guilt-laden labyrinth of factory-farming atrocities, carbon footprints, monoculture habitat destruction, and restrictive dietary dogmas like strict vegetarianism or veganism. Yet, a growing movement of travelers, conservationists, and food historians are looking…

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