FINAL WARNING: Setting the Stage for Destruction
Richard the Lion-Hearted, a nun who moved to Germany and became
abbess of the monastery of Eichstatt. After she died in 779, she was
canonized by the Church, and is recognized as the protector against
magic. However, witches are actually honoring Waldborg, a fertility
goddess. The spirits of the dead are said to be very active on this day.According to Anton LaVey, the self-proclaimed high priest of the
Church of Satan in San Francisco, the two major Satanic observances
are also Halloween and Walpurgisnacht.There are two other minor feasts, which divide the half-year into
quarters. February 2nd, Imbolg, the Winter festival (also known as
Imbolc or Oimelc), which was a pagan celebration marked with a
torchlight procession to honor the various deities associated with
agriculture, which was to purify and fertilize the fields prior to the
planting season. As the Catholic Church Christianized pagan
celebrations, it became known as the Feast of Purification of the
Blessed Virgin Mary which is celebrated by the Roman, Creek, and
Anglican churches, It is supposedly held to observe the event
described in the 2nd chapter of Luke, when Mary went to the Temple
for purification, which according to tradition iy happened forty days
after the birth of Jesus.It was originally observed on February 14th, when Jesus was thought
to have been born on the day of Epiphany. But when the date of his
birth was changed to December 25th, the day was moved. It became
known as Candlemas, because church candles are blessed that day,
due to Simeon’s reference to the “light to lighten the Gentiles.” It was
believed that these blessed candles, when put in a home, would
protect it from evil. Pope Innocent XII (1691-1700) said: “Why do we in
this feast carry candles? Because the Gentiles dedicated the month of
February to the infernal gods, and at the beginning of it Pluto stole
Proserpine, and her mother Ceres sought her in the night with lighted
candles, so they, at the beginning of the month, walked about the city
with lighted candles. Because the holy fathers could not extirpate the
custom, they ordained that Christians should carry about candles in
honor of the Blessed Virgin; and thus what was done before in honor
of Ceres is now done in honor of the Blessed Virgin.”The other day is August 1st (July 31st according to A Witches’ Bible)