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...year-old Boston resident. Others were more dedicated to the cause: Natalia N. Chernenko, an MIT senior and president of the PSG, has been studying various forms of witchcraft for six years. Samhain is a time when pagans celebrate the cycle of death and rebirth, explains Phoenix, the priestess of the ceremony, who declined to give her real name. Participants are cleansed at the beginning of the ceremony with a bell and fruit-infused water. They stand in an unbreakable circle protected by the four elements—Breezes, Fire, Oceans and Mountains. The “Green...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pagans Pagans Everywhere! | 10/31/2007 | See Source »

...Dolores Umbridge, the bureaucrat from the Ministry of Magic in this summer's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Imelda Staunton is a little bit priestess, a little bit villainous. Staunton, the latest in a line of top British thespians to visit Hogwart's, found it a tough balancing act: "The character has to be ridiculous and yet real and frightening. She has to be silly and yet not cartoony. It's difficult to gauge." The performance and the couture established an ostensibly soft side to Dolores. "She wears cardigans and pinks. She threatens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movie Villains: So Bad They're Good | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

...been this much fun. “Confessions on a Dance Floor” is an hour-long, non-stop ride that, like a mystical night at a club, ends with nothing fundamentally learned or gained, just a lot of sweat and euphoria. In her new role as high priestess of disco, Madonna wouldn’t have it any other...

Author: By Christopher C. Baker, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Confessions on a Dance Floor | 12/1/2005 | See Source »

...film begins in a small town deep in the Louisiana bayou, where an old voodoo priestess uses two live snakes to exorcise criminals and other wicked men of the satanic spirits that push them to commit horrific deeds. But when the mambo priestess dies in a car accident, the snakes escape and kill the local mechanic, whose corpse is then possessed by all the malignant souls previously trapped in the vipers. And, of course, only a small group of beer-guzzling, emotionally-troubled high school seniors is there to stop the demonic creature from further spreading evil...

Author: By Michaela N. De lacaze, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MOVIE REVIEW | 9/30/2005 | See Source »

...trapped in the dead priestess’s blessed house and are hiding from the monster roaming outside. In desperate need of help and with no way to call the police, one of the teenagers exclaims that instead of protecting the house with charms and spells the old priestess “should have been busy installing a phone...

Author: By Michaela N. De lacaze, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MOVIE REVIEW | 9/30/2005 | See Source »

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