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brooklynite

(94,598 posts)
Mon Jan 19, 2015, 09:07 PM Jan 2015

Witches tie the knot in UK's first same-sex Pagan wedding

The Telegraph

Two male witches have tied the knot in the UK's first pagan same-sex marriage.

Tom Lanting, 34, and Iain Robertson, 39, who have been together for 12 years, were married in a ceremony in the 16th-century vaulted cellars of Marlin's Wynd in Edinburgh.

The couple, who live in the Scottish capital, are both described as being hedge witches, who use herbal remedies to deal with medical and spiritual ailments.

The ceremony encompassed a number of pagan traditions, including handfasting, where their hands were bound together, the sharing of mead and jumping the broom.


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Witches tie the knot in UK's first same-sex Pagan wedding (Original Post) brooklynite Jan 2015 OP
Reading that they're from Scotland... MANative Jan 2015 #1
Wait..... isn't a male witch a wizard? Nye Bevan Jan 2015 #2
Men are still referred to as witches u4ic Jan 2015 #4
No. A witch is a witch. Warlock is an insult, or so I remember from my reading. ladyVet Jan 2015 #5
Yep, they are called Warlocks. B Calm Jan 2015 #6
Blessed be! Coventina Jan 2015 #3

MANative

(4,112 posts)
1. Reading that they're from Scotland...
Mon Jan 19, 2015, 09:31 PM
Jan 2015

I have to wonder whether they are Hogwarts graduates. The younger one would have been a classmate of Ginny Weasley and Luna Lovegood.

Seriously, though, best wishes to them for a long and happy life together.

ladyVet

(1,587 posts)
5. No. A witch is a witch. Warlock is an insult, or so I remember from my reading.
Tue Jan 20, 2015, 08:56 AM
Jan 2015

I hope the couple has many, many more happy years together!

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