Witch's Brew's Birthday Club
April 2004
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April Fool's Day

Death of Richard Napier, astrologer-physician who consulter with spirits, primarily the Angel Raphael, 1634

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Birthday of Hans Christian Andersen, fairy tale author

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Tomb-Sweeping Day (Chinese)

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Birthday of Harry Houndini, stage magician famous for exposing fraudulent spiritualists

Islamic New Year

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Church of All Worlds (CAW) founded, 1962

First Wiccan tract published by Pete Pathfinder Davis, 1996

Blagini's Feast (Romanian)

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Passover Ends

William Alexander Aynton initiated into the Isis-Urania Temple of the Golden Dawn, 1896

Flower Festival (Buddhist)

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Birth of Montague Summers, 1880; he is famous in the history of witchcraft because despite living in the "enlightened" twentieth century, he idolized the authors of the Malleus Maleficarum, published in 1486

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Orthodox Easter

Burning of Major Weir, Scottish sorcerer who confessed of his own accord, 1670; historians theorize that he had become delusional or senile.

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Handfasting of Oberon and Morning Glory Zell, 1974
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First confession of witchcraft by Isobel Gowdie, whose case is considered unusual because no torture was used to extract her confession, Scotland, 1662
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Adoption of the Principles of Wiccan Belief at "Witch Meet" in St. Paul, Minnesota, 1974
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Celtic Tree Month of Willow begins

Birthday of Elizabeth Montgomery, who played Samantha on the popular television show Bewitched

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Birthday of Margot Adler, author, Drawing Down the Moon
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Islamic New Year

Aleister Crowley breaks into and takes over the Golden Dawn temple, providing the catalyst for the demise of the original Golden Dawn, 1900

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Conviction of Witches at second of four famous trials at Chelmsford, England 1579
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Earth Day: the first Earth Day was in 1970
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Edward III of England begins the Order of the Garter, which anthropologist Margaret Murray later links to witchcraft, 1350
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USA Today reports that Patricia Hutchins is the first military Wiccan granted religious leave for the sabbats, 1989
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Birthday of Ed Fitch, Wiccan Author
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Alex Sanders, founder, Alexandrian Tradition, dies of lung cancer, 1988

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