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Halloween was part of the traditional pre-Christian cycle of festivals in many different parts of Europe. The Church tried to tame it in a variety of ways, but the idea that it is a time when the veil between our world and the Otherworld is especially thin and the two can communicate persists. Witches were often accused of participating in sabbats on this date, and certainly modern witches have embraced the occasion as well...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fifteen Questions for Stephen A. Mitchell | 10/30/2003 | See Source »

...danger to owners and their neighbors is one obvious drawback to keeping a tiger at home. "No matter how tame a tiger might seem, it isn't tame," says Richard Lattis, director of New York City's Bronx Zoo. "Dogs and cats have been bred for thousands of years to live with humans. Tigers haven't. They're wild animals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Never Trust A Tiger | 10/20/2003 | See Source »

...TAME YOUR INNER CARNIVORE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What You Need to Know About ... Meat, Fish & Eggs | 10/20/2003 | See Source »

...tiger he keeps as a pet in his Harlem apartment. Animal trainer and illusionist Roy Horn of Siegfried and Roy is mauled onstage. Back in 1981 in a cover story CATS: LOVE 'EM! HATE 'EM! TIME warned that these furry felines may look placid but are hardly tame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: 22 Years Ago In Time | 10/20/2003 | See Source »

...water, Harvard struggled slightly in its 5000-meter head race, unable to maintain as clean and smooth a stroke as it had hoped and struggling to tame a tail wind nipping at its back...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M., W. Heavies Remain Hot Following Summer | 10/14/2003 | See Source »

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