Wicca Wedding Ceremony

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Wicca Wedding Ceremony (Central Weekend)

Media Archive for Central England
Birmingham
1987-03-20
Sound

A look at the folk custom religion of Wicca - is it just an unfairly stigmatised celebration of nature?

Reg Harcourt chairs a debate on white witchcraft, between the High Priestess of Witchcraft Seldiy Bate and Roman Catholic Priest Michael Buckley. In the best chat show tradition, Ms Bate has something to promote - the release of a vinyl record that can be used to provide the soundtrack to a wicca wedding ceremony.

We see a film put together by Central's film unit that pulls out all the stops to bring the music and ceremony together, although it can't help but look like a low-budget Hammer horror film. Back in the studio, the two opposing sides find little common ground, despite it being pointed out that they both base their religions on symbolism. Though Father Buckley does recognise the influence of nature, he is understandably less keen on reclaiming the devil as a misrepresented hunting god.

Central Weekend considers white witches and films a Wicca wedding ceremony.

Enter the Unknown Zone: Journeys into the Paranormal Midlands

Time to enter the world of the unexplained?

Television has long brought the real world into our living rooms, but occasionally it turns its eye to matters that aren't easily explained. As interest in the paranormal grows - look at the popularity of spooky podcasts and tv shows that claim to have captured all manner of ghostliness on camera - it's a good time to look back on how these phenomena were once reported on television. These genuine 'tales of the unexpected' contain many tropes familiar to fans of the genre. Malevolent spirits, white witches, alien beings - they're all here, ready to fascinate new generations. And of course there's the added bonus of hearing these stories directly from the people affected - their first-hand accounts making a compelling case for the supernatural. Why the Midlands though? Well, one of the UK's most popular places for UFO sightings is Stoke-on-Trent, so it appears the Midlands are very much on the minds of alien beings up there, somewhere...

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