Spell Check

Susan Leybourne is on a campaign to show that pagans aren’t bad people — they just suffer from bad publicity. “People think we dance around fires naked all the time,” she says, “but it’s too cold in Britain” for that. Priestess Leybourne, one of 12 chaplains at Leeds University, is the first pagan ever to become a university chaplain in England. Being a witch isn't easy in a modern world, Leybourne says. “Usually the way to send spells off into the astral world is to burn them or put them into running water like a stream,” she says. But as a child learning about her religion, “I didn't have a stream, so I had to flush them down the toilet.” (Reuters) ...At least someone is finally doing something about the alligators in the sewers.