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...national meteorological department had predicted a normal monsoon earlier this year, but when there was no sign of rain until the middle of June, alarm bells began to ring. Farmers in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh began holding prayers at major temples. Indian media began to report occult rituals such as farmers arranging "weddings" for frogs and women in one Uttar Pradesh village tying themselves to the yoke to plough land in efforts to please the rain gods. Even farmers in irrigated areas that are not completely dependent on the monsoon are worried. "We keep reading in the papers...
...Rover even the most adventuresome Harvard student will find new places to go. There are over 900 reviews of restaurants and shops in Cambridge and Boston. There are plenty of categories to choose from. Looking for the occult? You won't have to walk far. Mystic Rosa, according to Rover, is only .11 miles from Flyby's current location in a Straus music practice room. Unfortunately if you're looking for a burrito, you're going to have to hunt for them in the Mexican category. More features after the jump...
...others include the Scroll and Key, Wolf's Head, Berzelius and Book and Snake, all of which like keeping tabs on one another, some in the form of dossiers that include "reliability ratings." Each group picks its members in a highly confidential manner and subjects them to rounds of occult hazing rituals - what pledging a fraternity might be like, perhaps, at Hogwarts...
...embarrassed that I was asking him about the topic. "Harry Potter is fiction," he said. He had never suggested that it spoke to the Jewish experience specifically. He had just defended its emphasis on good and evil back when a lot of religious leaders were denouncing the books as occult. "The following, I think I can tell you," he said, warming slightly to the topic. "Rowling is an astute observer of society. [Hasidim] have their inner truth, and inner logic," just as Rowling's world does...
...Varin is one of the most renowned soothsayers in Thailand, where occult beliefs are common. His famous patrons are thought to include the former head of the military junta, Sonthi Boonyaratglin, a retired general who in September 2006 oversaw Thaksin's bloodless overthrow, ushering in more than a year of military rule before the elections last December that brought Samak to power. (The current P.M. openly campaigned as Thaksin's proxy, since the former leader is currently barred from re-entering Thai politics.) At an astrological ceremony on Sunday, Varin played host to associates of the military regime who have...