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January 12, 2017

Places, Rituals

WitchsFest 2016 || Astor Place, NYC

It was a hot and humid July 2016 morning when I set out to document the 5th annual WitchsFest in lower Manhattan. This year it was probably the busiest it has ever been. In the sea of feathers, horns and wings I saw a lot of familiar faces and met some new ones.

Wiccan Family Temple was there, Avalon Grove was there, Temple of Thelema among many others.

Witchfest-2016-NYC15Witchfest-2016-NYC10 Witchfest-2016-NYC17 Witchfest-2016-NYC18 Witchfest-2016-NYC19 But the list of vendors, religious groups and much more you can find at WitchsFest website. The purpose of this post is to show what happened at the fair… and oh, it happened.  During the free classes offered by Pagan community’s known presenters: Rev. Don Lewis, Starr Ravenhawn, Christopher Penczac, Lexa Rosen, Courtney Weber and others, these guys showed up…Witchfest-2016-NYC06And would not stop screaming their own truth about their own god…Here is the close up.Witchfest-2016-NYC07

Police could not do anything about them.Witchfest-2016-NYC09Witchfest-2016-NYC30 Witchfest-2016-NYC16But show had to go on…Witchfest-2016-NYC01 Witchfest-2016-NYC04 Witchfest-2016-NYC05 Witchfest-2016-NYC02 Witchfest-2016-NYC11 Witchfest-2016-NYC12 Witchfest-2016-NYC13 Witchfest-2016-NYC14

And little by little, while fanatics where screaming their voices off, the crowd formed their own response. The street punks moved in with their stuff and signs, witches made their own banners to hold and fair attendees started drawing pentagrams and sigils by their feet.Witchfest-2016-NYC27 Witchfest-2016-NYC28 Witchfest-2016-NYC29 Witchfest-2016-NYC20 Witchfest-2016-NYC21Witchfest-2016-NYC24 Witchfest-2016-NYC25 Witchfest-2016-NYC26 Witchfest-2016-NYC23And Satan did show up…Witchfest-2016-NYC31 Witchfest-2016-NYC32

And he even joined the closing ritual.Witchfest-2016-NYC34 Witchfest-2016-NYC35 Witchfest-2016-NYC33 Witchfest-2016-NYC36 Witchfest-2016-NYC37 Witchfest-2016-NYC38 Witchfest-2016-NYC39 Witchfest-2016-NYC41

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