Pagan Community Notes: Week of July 11, 2024 [Video]

TWH – Generally we don’t cover sports unless they are Pagan sports.  If you know of any competitions we should be covering (Pagan curlers – we’re looking at you), let us know at [email protected].

But this story was, well, too bizarre to not share.

In a recent interview with ‘The Mac Life’, a magazine that covers mixed-martial arts (MMA) as well as other sports and health and fitness, Dana Frederick White Jr., the CEO and president of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC),  the largest and most prominent mixed MMA promotion company, was pulled into a debate on witchcraft.

First the backdrop, recently, on ‘The MMA Hour,’ Czech professional mixed martial artist Jiří Procházka revealed that Brazilian professional mixed martial artist and former kickboxer, Alex Sandro Silva Pereira participates in shamanic rituals to generate supernatural energy before entering a bout in the MMA Octagon. Procházka reportedly said, “Yes, everybody knows that he is doing these rituals ahead of his fight. Everybody can …