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  1. EnolaGaia

    Sisters Of The Valley: Weed-Smoking Spiritual Commune; New Style Of Spiritual Collaboration?

    This group is ostensibly non-religious in any traditional sense of "religion", but its avowed objectives and principles are "spiritual" in nature and echo a defunct medieval order of nuns. I'm placing this new thread in Religions & Cults not because I dismiss their claims of being...
  2. ramonmercado

    Nuns: Fortean Tales

    A sad case. I reckon its Fortean cos of the reference to the cross which contained wood of the "True Cross".
  3. S

    The Walled-Up Nun

    This seems to be a type of ' cliche ' that crops up all over the UK: Nuns bricked up alive, for some sexual infraction, usually with a monk. Now I'd love to know if this punishment has ever been truly carried out, in this country, as I remember reading that it never was, although there are...
  4. A

    The Physical Phenomena Of Mysticism

    "Miracles" at Saint-Medard France, 1727-1732 I read about this in "The Mammoth Encyclopedia of the Unsolved" a while back but haven't really found much else about it on the internet. Found this at http://www.nhne.com/windwings/wind4.html...
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  5. JamesWhitehead

    Naughty Nuns

    Children forced to sleep with dead nun? I found this lurid little gem nestling on a site devoted to crimes of the clergy. It appears to date from September last year. Somehow the lack of detail on the withdrawn charge of "forcing children to sleep with dead nun" makes it even more chilling...
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