Pagan priest wins right to wear goat horns in license photo, saying they are religious attire

[rug]

By Peter Holley December 17 at 8:00 AM

It doesn’t matter how many articles of clothing Phelan Moonsong puts on before walking out the door each day: If he’s not wearing his favorite pair of goat horns, the Pagan priest might as well be naked.

Unless the 56-year-old Millinocket, Maine, man is sleeping or bathing, his beloved horns are rarely far from his scalp.

It’s been that way since he first laid eyes on the horns at a Pagan men’s group gathering in 2009. A friend whose goat had recently died offered the horns to group members. Nobody else wanted the dead goat’s hardware; Moonsong couldn’t believe his luck.

So he took the horns home, drilled small holes in each one and attached them to his forehead using stretchy, 50-pound fishing line that he wrapped around his head like an invisible skull cap.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/12/17/maine-man-wins-right-to-wear-goat-horns-in-license-photo-saying-they-are-religious-attire/?utm_term=.1868b18c4125

https://www.facebook.com/phelan.moonsong?fref=hovercard

https://www.facebook.com/PanPriest/?pnref=lhc

[zippythepinhead]

1. If he tried that in NC

He would be burned at the stake.

[democratisphere]

3. This Pagan Priest better not go into the woods

during hunting season.

[guillaumeb]

4. Unless he has a white scarf in his back pocket.

A joke.

[nil desperandum]

5. Interesting,

the human mind seems determined to find something to ritualize, dressing up in horns and goat pants or a pointy hat and some colored robes the need never disappears apparently.

Fortunately it's 2016 and not 1620, otherwise our pagan friend might be swinging by his neck...