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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWitches tie the knot in UK's first same-sex Pagan wedding
The TelegraphTwo 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.
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
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MANative
(4,112 posts)1. Reading that they're from Scotland...
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.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)2. Wait..... isn't a male witch a wizard?
Or is it a warlock?
u4ic
(17,101 posts)4. Men are still referred to as witches
ladyVet
(1,587 posts)5. No. A witch is a witch. Warlock is an insult, or so I remember from my reading.
I hope the couple has many, many more happy years together!
B Calm
(28,762 posts)6. Yep, they are called Warlocks.
Coventina
(27,121 posts)3. Blessed be!