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Fri Sep 20, 2013, 01:53 PM Sep 2013

Pa. pagan festival aims to dispel misconceptions

Last edited Fri Sep 20, 2013, 02:24 PM - Edit history (1)

YORK, Pa. — Sabrina Bowman is not a member of an outlaw motorcycle gang. She has never sacrificed a goat.

But she is a pagan, and she does believe in magic, practiced intimately by candlelight at an altar in her Windsor home.

She also believes in having some good-natured fun with the societal misconceptions about her religion, and that's why she has prepared a cauldron in which to boil children during the Second Annual Pagan Pride Day Festival at Samuel S. Lewis State Park Saturday.

It's a photo op - not for real, of course - because the festival is being held in part to debunk myths about paganism and educate the public.

Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2013/09/19/3796630/pa-pagan-festival-aims-to-dispel.html#storylink=cpy

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