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Frederick Santee was a medical doctor, occultist, and practicing warlock in rural Pennsylvania. He was the founder and leader of the Coven of the Catta, a coven that practices Gardnerian Wicca. Frederick started school in fourth grade at age five and graduated from Central High School in Philadelphia (a college-level high school which granted a B.A.) at age 13.

While studying in Berlin, Santee was initiated into a Wiccan lineage by Arnold Reinman, who was a High Priest of the Black Forest Tradition. In 1967, Santee and most of the nurses who worked in his office were initiated into the New Forest Wicca lineage by Sybil Leek, creating the Coven of the Catta in the process.

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This month in history Jan Hus being burnt at the stake 2 July - French seer and mystic Nostradamus dies. (1566) 3 July - Folk saint and shaman Don Pedro Jaramillo dies in Brooks County, Texas. (1907) 6 July - Jan Hus is burned at the stake for heresy. (1415) 10 July - Czech occultist and author Franz Bardon dies from pancreatitis while in police custody. (1958) 14 July - The New Horizons spacecraft completes the first-ever flyby of Pluto. (2015) 12 July - French author Jean-Baptiste Pitois, who coined the terms Major Arcana and Minor Arcana, dies. (1877) 13 July - John Dee, court astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I, is born. (1527) 17 July - The last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, dies. (1918) 19 July - Date of the heliacal rise of Sirius used to begin the Egyptian calendar. (3000 BC) 19 July - Accused witch Rebecca Nurse is executed by hanging. (1692) 19 July - Australian cannibal murderer Alexander Pearce is executed by hanging. (1824) 19 July - Occultist Aleister Crowley begins his 40 day seclusion on Esopus Island. (1918) 22 July - Elizabethan astrologer Simon Forman marries 17-year-old Jane Baker. (1599) 26 July - Argentine folk saint Eva Perón dies. (1952) 28 July - Accused witch Lilias Adie is arrested for witchcraft. (1704)

Featured image Zé Pilintra is one of the most important entities among several Afro-Brazilian religions. He is considered the patron saint of bars, poor people, and street hustlers. Although not aligned with negative entities, Zé Pelintra is the embodiment of a "rogue" archetype. Although reverence for him originated from the Catimbó tradition in the Northeast Region of Brazil, devotion to him has spread throughout Brazil after he was incorporated into Umbanda. Perhaps most widely, he is invoked as the father of the “Brazilian way." A kind of cunning trickster figure, a master of street-smarts that the Brazilian people inherited from enslaved African that continues to help them survive discrimination and racism. Photo Credit: Santuário Zé Pelintra Lapa -RJ (More Images)

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