pagan – Author Patricia Robin Woodruff (Boyana), MDiv, PhD.

New Book Release 2024: Roots of Slavic Magic Book 1

It’s released!! Ten years of full-time research. Over 500 pages, 274 illustrations, almost 2,000 citations AND an index! Book 1 of 10 volumes of The Roots of Slavic Magic. – Patricia Robin Woodruff Woodruff reveals exciting new discoveries in this vastly neglected field. Scholars have long overlooked the pre-Christian beliefs in the area of CentralContinue reading “New Book Release 2024: Roots of Slavic Magic Book 1”

Lord of the Mountain: Krakonosh

He has been described as a giant, a devil, a gnome, an elf, a prince, a satyr, a goblin, and a ghost. Some call him a great spirit. Some refer to him as a great lord. Where else would such a great being live but in the Giant Mountains?! If you’ve never heard of the Giant Mountains, you may be wondering where they are; or maybe you know of the mountains by their Polish name, the Karkonosze mountains, which forms the border between the Czech Republic and Poland. It is these huge granite mountains that a giant lives by the nickname of…

Presentation To Center on the Belief of Slavic Lands

Previously posted on: swvatoday.com Local interfaith minister, artist and scholar Patricia Robin Woodruff has been accepted to speak at the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago, Illinois, in mid-August 2023. The Parliament of the World’s Religions is a nonprofit consisting of “the world’s largest, most diverse and inclusive interfaith Covening of people of faith,Continue reading “Presentation To Center on the Belief of Slavic Lands”

Talking My Path: Patricia Robin Woodruff

Indigenous religions tend to be shamanic, because one becomes deeply connected to the spirits and the land. So individuals who are deeply called to this path are called “one who knows” or “wise one” in whatever language is being used. (That’s basically what shaman means, “to know.”) In Russian it would be vedma, in Ukrainian it’s vid’ma, Polish wiedzma (although czarownica has become more popular, because the “wise one,” the witch, has been so maligned), and in Hungary you would use boszorkány.