July 14
Bastille Day -- French
Colour: Turquoise
Moon Sign: Libra
Incense: Jasmine
On this day, the birth of the falcon-headed god Horus is celebrated by many Wiccans of the Egyptian tradition. Light a royal-blue altar and burn some Frankincense and Myrrh as a fragrant offering to him.
FĂȘte Nationale (Bastille Day), public holiday, France and all French dependencies
1789 French Revolution: Parisians stormed the Bastille Prison in Paris and freed seven political prisoners. When the revolutionary mob stormed the French prison they were surprised to find most of the cells empty but for the miserable scratchings of prisoners on the walls. Only seven prisoners were resident, under the relatively (for his time) lenient penal policies of King Louis XVI (1754 - 1793). Among those inmates, Marquis de Sade (1740 - 1814) is believed to have triggered the assault by crying that people were being executed inside. Three of the prisoners were old men, legitimately incarcerated; two of these had become insane, no doubt because of the horrible conditions in the cells. The other four prisoners had been in the Bastille for only four years each, for various crimes such as forgery. The seven were paraded through the streets as heroes, though the revolutionaries must have been disappointed that they did not have more to show off ...
1858 Emmeline Pankhurst (d. June 14, 1928), most influential and famous of the British suffragettes, mother of Christabel, Sylvia and Adela. She was born Emmeline Goulden in Manchester, England to abolitionist parents, and married Richard Pankhurst, a barrister, in 1879. Dr Pankhurst was already a supporter of the women's suffrage movement, and had been the author of the Married Women's Property Acts of 1870 and 1882. In 1889, Mrs Pankhurst founded the Women's Franchise League, but her campaign was interrupted by her husband's death in 1898. In 1903 she founded the better-known Women's Social and Political Union, an organization most famous for its militancy which began in 1905. Its members included the notorious Annie Kenney, the suffragette "martyr", Emily Davison and the composer, Dame Ethel Smyth ...
1881 Pat Garrett shot and killed Billy 'The Kid' Bonney. Henry McCarty (b. c. 1860) better known as Billy the Kid, but also known by the alias William Henry Bonney, was a 19th century American frontier outlaw and murderer. He is reputed to have killed 21 men but the figure is probably closer to nine (four on his own and five with the help of others) ...
Colour: Turquoise
Moon Sign: Libra
Incense: Jasmine
On this day, the birth of the falcon-headed god Horus is celebrated by many Wiccans of the Egyptian tradition. Light a royal-blue altar and burn some Frankincense and Myrrh as a fragrant offering to him.
FĂȘte Nationale (Bastille Day), public holiday, France and all French dependencies
1789 French Revolution: Parisians stormed the Bastille Prison in Paris and freed seven political prisoners. When the revolutionary mob stormed the French prison they were surprised to find most of the cells empty but for the miserable scratchings of prisoners on the walls. Only seven prisoners were resident, under the relatively (for his time) lenient penal policies of King Louis XVI (1754 - 1793). Among those inmates, Marquis de Sade (1740 - 1814) is believed to have triggered the assault by crying that people were being executed inside. Three of the prisoners were old men, legitimately incarcerated; two of these had become insane, no doubt because of the horrible conditions in the cells. The other four prisoners had been in the Bastille for only four years each, for various crimes such as forgery. The seven were paraded through the streets as heroes, though the revolutionaries must have been disappointed that they did not have more to show off ...
1858 Emmeline Pankhurst (d. June 14, 1928), most influential and famous of the British suffragettes, mother of Christabel, Sylvia and Adela. She was born Emmeline Goulden in Manchester, England to abolitionist parents, and married Richard Pankhurst, a barrister, in 1879. Dr Pankhurst was already a supporter of the women's suffrage movement, and had been the author of the Married Women's Property Acts of 1870 and 1882. In 1889, Mrs Pankhurst founded the Women's Franchise League, but her campaign was interrupted by her husband's death in 1898. In 1903 she founded the better-known Women's Social and Political Union, an organization most famous for its militancy which began in 1905. Its members included the notorious Annie Kenney, the suffragette "martyr", Emily Davison and the composer, Dame Ethel Smyth ...
1881 Pat Garrett shot and killed Billy 'The Kid' Bonney. Henry McCarty (b. c. 1860) better known as Billy the Kid, but also known by the alias William Henry Bonney, was a 19th century American frontier outlaw and murderer. He is reputed to have killed 21 men but the figure is probably closer to nine (four on his own and five with the help of others) ...
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