<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5bbf772f-afee-41a6-83d4-dc5535c7d3f3/D69327E7-838E-4FFA-B78A-39F789EA8593/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://wildhunt.org/blog/2009/04/hans-holzer-1920-2009.html" href="http://wildhunt.org/blog/2009/04/hans-holzer-1920-2009.html" style="font-size: 11px;">wildhunt.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://wildhunt.org/blog/2009/04/hans-holzer-1920-2009.html"><P>Famed ghost-hunter, paranormal investigator, and popularizer of Pagan faiths <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Holzer">Hans Holzer</A> passed away <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/books/30holzer.html?_r=1">on Sunday at the age of 89.</A> While most will remember him for his ghost-hunting and investigations into <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_in_Amityville">the Amityville house</A> (the subject of several films), he also played a key role in the spread of Witchcraft/Wicca and other Pagan faiths in America during the 1970s. With books like <A href="http://www.amazon.com/New-Pagans-Inside-Report-Mystery/dp/B001VV0QNS/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241105629&sr=1-6">“The New Pagans”</A>, <A href="http://red-witch.blogspot.com/2007/05/hans-holzer-visits-sanders-in-1968.html">“The Truth About Witchcraft”</A>, and <A href="http://www.amazon.com/Heather-Confessions-Witch-Hans-Holzer/dp/0517229730/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241105673&sr=1-2">“Confessions of a Witch”</A>, Holzer responded to a need that the still nascent Pagan publishing industry couldn’t fill.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://wildhunt.org/blog/2009/04/hans-holzer-1920-2009.html">While many modern Pagans barely know Holzer outside of his books on paranormal phenomena, he played a key role in making Wicca/Witchcraft the world religion it is today.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://wildhunt.org/blog/2009/04/hans-holzer-1920-2009.html">Holzer also cleared a path in the publishing world that eventually allowed Pagan authors like Margot Adler to <A href="http://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Down-Moon-Witches-Goddess-Worshippers/dp/0143038192/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241107946&sr=1-1">write serious examinations</A> of what we now call the “Pagan community”. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D69327E7-838E-4FFA-B78A-39F789EA8593/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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