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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...next day I drove back to the house to meet the placenta lady, Sara Pereira. To my surprise, Sara did not look unkempt, frumpy, heavy or in any way like a Wiccan. She got into placenta-cooking after taking a Chinese-medicine course and has already prepared more than two dozen placentas this year - and orders are picking up rapidly. When I asked Sara if her parents were embarrassed by what she does, she told me that her father sells bull semen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afterbirth: It's What's For Dinner | 7/3/2009 | See Source »

...True Blood owes everything to Laurell K. Hamilton, who launched her Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter character 15 years ago. Hamilton has since started another series, starring faerie queen Merry Gentry. She talked to TIME about sex in America, acting as therapist for fans, and why she became a Wiccan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vampire Novelist Laurell K. Hamilton | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

...still very religious, but I've changed religions. When I first started out in college, I was Christian, and I became Episcopalian, which is still one of my favorite flavors of Christianity. But currently I'm Wiccan. One of its biggest tenets is, Do as thou wilt, but harm none. And that applies to yourself as well. So every choice you make, all day long, every day, goes through that filter. But there's no intrinsic guilt in this religion. Since everything is sacred, you don't have to feel ashamed about your body or what you're doing with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vampire Novelist Laurell K. Hamilton | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

...daughter is still young enough that she trick-or-treats. But it's also a very sacred holiday for my religion. It's the last day of the year. If you're Wiccan, this is like the day before New Year's. But, while my daughter is young enough, we do the candy and everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vampire Novelist Laurell K. Hamilton | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

...While it is laudable that the VA has accepted the Wiccan Pentacle and begun to examine their highly entrenched, anachronistic system, this single action is not enough. The system of emblems of belief—which places an undue, indeed unfair, emphasis on one’s religious identity—needs to be reevaluated entirely so that soldiers can be remembered in a way most appropriate to them...

Author: By Joshua R. Stein | Title: Definition: Religion? | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

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