This is a review of Ben Whitmore’s Trials of the Moon: Reopening the Case for Historical Witchcraft. A Critique of Ronald Hutton’s Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft. Auckland: Aotearoa / New Zealand, 2010 http://www.goodgame.org.nz/trialsofthemoonexcerpt.pdf I am glad someone took on the task of providing a detailed critique of Hutton’s book. [...]

Amazing: i found yet another medicine woman who led a revolt against colonial rule, Mekatilili of the Giriama in coastal Kenya. She “was noted as a charismatic speaker who commanded respect.” She convoked the Giriama to take oaths and offer sacrifices to restore their sovereignty. Mekatilili wa Menza was born in the 1840s,  the only [...]

I’m finally making it into the blogosphere, still on that learning curve and tweaking the site. After using the Suppressed Histories Facebook page for over a year, I thought it was past time to move to a more open netwide searchable format which allows more flexibility in post length and graphics display (cuz the images [...]