Messages In This Digest (25 Messages)
- 1a.
- [goddess] Mnemosyne + Big girl panties + An apology to men + A time From: Ash
- 1b.
- Re: [goddess] Mnemosyne + Big girl panties + An apology to men + A t From: sandy jarman
- 2.
- Abraham Hicks: Daily Quote - 11/08/2010 From: Ash
- 3.1.
- Re: Introduction From: sandy jarman
- 4.
- Deborah Kind: Join me for a Global Wellness Event! From: Ash
- 5.
- About Paranormal: Haunted in Seattle From: Ash
- 6.
- Zen is All-Inclusive From: Ash
- 7.
- (no subject) From: gghohol@yahoo.com
- 8a.
- Power Animal of the Day: Zebra From: Ash
- 9a.
- Quado's Garden: Observe From: Ash
- 10a.
- Lady Julie's Daily Quote From: Ash
- 11.
- Calm From: Ash
- 12.
- Colleen Joy: The water of experience From: Ash
- 13.1.
- Daily Devotions of the Goddess From: Ash
- 14.
- Path of the Soul Card Reading: Egyptian Eagle From: Ash
- 15.
- Posts from Tiny Buddha for 11/08/2010 From: Ash
- 16.
- Please Donate Blood, 11/8/2010, 2:00 pm From: which_witch_is_witch@yahoogroups.com
- 17.
- Fairy Animals From: Ash
- 18.
- Crystals ~ Lapis Lazuli From: Ash
- 19a.
- Wizard and Witch Newsletter From: Ash
- 20.
- Email settings for Groups From: Cher Chirichello
- 21.
- HOC class Wicca 102, Nov. 9, Old Bridge NJ From: Cher Chirichello
- 22.
- Fw: DailyOM: Outside the Comfort Zone From: Cher Chirichello
- 23.
- Fw: Come join me at How To Use Self-Hypnosis to Manifest The Life Yo From: Cher Chirichello
- 24.
- Fw: New Moon Shamanic Drumming Circle This Thursday! From: Cher Chirichello
Messages
- 1a.
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[goddess] Mnemosyne + Big girl panties + An apology to men + A time
Posted by: "Ash" mhc4sure@yahoo.com mhc4sure
Mon Nov 8, 2010 4:43 am (PST)
Goddess of the week
An apology to men
A Time to Remember
Big Girl Panties
© Anita Revel
Mnemosyne
The mother of memory teaches us to remember and cherish our unique
journeys, both good times and bad, in order to recognise our full
potential as wonderful, sacred, self-fulfilled beings.
MANTRA
Remember
GEMSTONES
Calcite, emerald, opal, sodalite
ESSENTIAL OILS
Goddess-ence Isis* blend for the third eye chakra
AFFIRMATIONS
I remember!Remembering brings me joyWriting my story (memoirs) is easy
My mind knows the answer already
I recognise the right answer at the right timeI am able to concentrate for as long as I need toI am surrounded by people who remember my story and who are happy to pass it on to my descendants. They are my story keepers.
Her Story
Mnemosyne (pron: nem-oh-zeen) was the daughter of Gaia and Uranus. Originally honoured as the Greek goddess of memory, today Mnemosyne is largely remembered in her capacity as the mother of the nine Muses. The nine daughters she bore to Zeus became the Muses of the creative arts, and are still known today as inspiration to poet, musicians, artists and scientists.
Her Modern Energy
In the ultimate of ironies, the Mother of Memory is largely forgotten
apart from her role as mother of the muses. Perhaps that is because now
we have computers and multitudes of recording devices to record our
stories for the next generation. In Mnemosyne's day, all of
civilisation's learnings and progress relied on the recall and retelling
of history.
Psychologists classify memory into "The Four Rs" --
recollection (remembering through the use of hints or clues),recall (unaided remembrance of past events),recognition (correct identification of previously encountered information), andrelearning (the ability to assimilate new information based upon previously learned information) .
Mnemosyne's gift to modern women is all of the Four Rs combined -- she
is the mother of Remembrance. With her energy we can recollect our
journey as women through hers/history, we can recall the wonderful
moments in our lives, we can recognise the beautiful beings we were born
to be, and we can relearn how we present ourselves to the world.
Reconnect With Your Inner Mnemosyne
As the Greeks often worshiped her in the form of flowing water
(representing flowing ideas and energy), head to your nearest sources of
moving water - the ocean, a river, a creek or even the water feature in
your back yard. Sit and "muse"... spend a healthy part of your day
playing, singing, reciting poetry, dancing on stage and planning your
memoir.
Australians have the perfect opportunity to celebrate Mnemosyne's energy at 11a.m. on Nov. 11 -- Remembrance Day here in Australia
-- and remember those who have died or suffered in wars and conflicts
and all those who have served during the past 100 years. Now that's
something worth remembering.
What Would Mnemosyne Do?
... If she were in your situation, she would write her memoir. She would
begin by recollecting her journey, recalling both the wonderful and
the icky moments in her life, recognising the beautiful being she was
born to be, and relearning how to apply her life lessons for a more
rewarding existence.
In doing so, she would easily recognise her full potential as wonderful, sacred, self-fulfilled being. (Excerpt from What Would Goddess Do? A Journal For Channelling Divine Guidance by Anita Revel)
Pssst! Visit my blog for a list of "triggers" to get you started on writing your memoirs.
Love and delight
Anita Revel
Creatrix :: Goddess.com.au
Goddess-ence Products
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base oil, and are therefore very powerful and transformative. Trade enquiries welcome
Put Your Big Girl Panties On
And deal with it!
Sometimes it helps to know, when life gets you down, just put on your big girl panties and deal with it.
Here are some big girl panties to share with your friends who need
the reminder to step in, step up, and just freakin' deal with it!
(Pssst, share these panties here)
A Time to Remember
11 November 2010
11 November is Remembrance Day in Australia, a time to remember those
who have died or suffered in wars and conflicts and all those who have
served during the past 100 years.
For the purpose of "remembering", we look to Greek
goddess Mnemosyne (nem-oh-zeen), whose name means "memory." She bore
nine daughters with Zeus, who became the nine Muses of the creative
arts.
What Would Mnemosyne Do to Remember? To foster memory, recollection,
recall, recognition, relearning and remembrance, she would write her
memoir. I began a list of prompts to help you begin your memoir.
Visit my blog for your memoir prompts
Discussing:
Over at "A Manifesto for Conscious Men", they are asking the question:
"As a woman, if you had just ONE SENTENCE to offer apology to men, on
behalf of the feminine psyche collectively, what would it be?" There are
some very interesting and unexpected responses!
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act on your instincts. Open the doors to love, allowing you to unclutter
your life and focus on the things that really matter.
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Re: [goddess] Mnemosyne + Big girl panties + An apology to men + A t
Posted by: "sandy jarman" catallday2001@yahoo.com gardengoddess170
Mon Nov 8, 2010 4:56 am (PST)
Thank you for this! I have been having trouble remembering everything. This term of school has been a struggle . I will use this information to help me.
Thank you again!
Sandi
--- On Mon, 11/8/10, Ash <mhc4sure@yahoo.com > wrote:
From: Ash <mhc4sure@yahoo.com >
Subject: [which_witch_is_witch] [goddess] Mnemosyne + Big girl panties + An apology to men + A time to remember
To: seafyres_mystic_arts_BOS@ yahoogroups. com
Date: Monday, November 8, 2010, 7:37 AM
Goddess of the week
An apology to men
A Time to Remember
Big Girl Panties
© Anita Revel
Mnemosyne
The mother of memory teaches us to remember and cherish our unique
journeys, both good times and bad, in order to recognise our full
potential as wonderful, sacred, self-fulfilled beings.
MANTRA
Remember
GEMSTONES
Calcite, emerald, opal, sodalite
ESSENTIAL OILS
Goddess-ence Isis* blend for the third eye chakra
AFFIRMATIONS
I remember!Remembering brings me joyWriting my story (memoirs) is easy
My mind knows the answer already
I recognise the right answer at the right timeI am able to concentrate for as long as I need toI am surrounded by people who remember my story and who are happy to pass it on to my descendants. They are my story keepers.
Her Story
Mnemosyne (pron: nem-oh-zeen) was the daughter of Gaia and Uranus. Originally honoured as the Greek goddess of memory, today Mnemosyne is largely remembered in her capacity as the mother of the nine Muses. The nine daughters she bore to Zeus became the Muses of the creative arts, and are still known today as inspiration to poet, musicians, artists and scientists.
Her Modern Energy
In the ultimate of ironies, the Mother of Memory is largely forgotten
apart from her role as mother of the muses. Perhaps that is because now
we have computers and multitudes of recording devices to record our
stories for the next generation. In Mnemosyne's day, all of
civilisation's learnings and progress relied on the recall and retelling
of history.
Psychologists classify memory into "The Four Rs" --
recollection (remembering through the use of hints or clues),recall (unaided remembrance of past events),recognition (correct identification of previously encountered information), andrelearning (the ability to assimilate new information based upon previously learned information) .
Mnemosyne's gift to modern women is all of the Four Rs combined -- she
is the mother of Remembrance. With her energy we can recollect our
journey as women through hers/history, we can recall the wonderful
moments in our lives, we can recognise the beautiful beings we were born
to be, and we can relearn how we present ourselves to the world.
Reconnect With Your Inner Mnemosyne
As the Greeks often worshiped her in the form of flowing water
(representing flowing ideas and energy), head to your nearest sources of
moving water - the ocean, a river, a creek or even the water feature in
your back yard. Sit and "muse"... spend a healthy part of your day
playing, singing, reciting poetry, dancing on stage and planning your
memoir.
Australians have the perfect opportunity to celebrate Mnemosyne's energy at 11a.m. on Nov. 11 -- Remembrance Day here in Australia
-- and remember those who have died or suffered in wars and conflicts
and all those who have served during the past 100 years. Now that's
something worth remembering.
What Would Mnemosyne Do?
... If she were in your situation, she would write her memoir. She would
begin by recollecting her journey, recalling both the wonderful and
the icky moments in her life, recognising the beautiful being she was
born to be, and relearning how to apply her life lessons for a more
rewarding existence.
In doing so, she would easily recognise her full potential as wonderful, sacred, self-fulfilled being. (Excerpt from What Would Goddess Do? A Journal For Channelling Divine Guidance by Anita Revel)
Pssst! Visit my blog for a list of "triggers" to get you started on writing your memoirs.
Love and delight
Anita Revel
Creatrix :: Goddess.com.au
Goddess-ence Products
100% Pure and Absolutely Gorgeous
These sublime essential oil blends for the chakras are available from:
The Goddess Goodies store, orfrom any Goddess Playshop Facilitator.They
are 100% pure - this means they are not diluted with a carrier oil or
base oil, and are therefore very powerful and transformative. Trade enquiries welcome
Put Your Big Girl Panties On
And deal with it!
Sometimes it helps to know, when life gets you down, just put on your big girl panties and deal with it.
Here are some big girl panties to share with your friends who need
the reminder to step in, step up, and just freakin' deal with it!
(Pssst, share these panties here)
A Time to Remember
11 November 2010
11 November is Remembrance Day in Australia, a time to remember those
who have died or suffered in wars and conflicts and all those who have
served during the past 100 years.
For the purpose of "remembering", we look to Greek
goddess Mnemosyne (nem-oh-zeen), whose name means "memory." She bore
nine daughters with Zeus, who became the nine Muses of the creative
arts.
What Would Mnemosyne Do to Remember? To foster memory, recollection,
recall, recognition, relearning and remembrance, she would write her
memoir. I began a list of prompts to help you begin your memoir.
Visit my blog for your memoir prompts
Discussing:
Over at "A Manifesto for Conscious Men", they are asking the question:
"As a woman, if you had just ONE SENTENCE to offer apology to men, on
behalf of the feminine psyche collectively, what would it be?" There are
some very interesting and unexpected responses!
Sponsors Corner
I'm very grateful for support of this newsletter; please support my beautiful
sponsors in return. If you'd like to be a sponsor also, please reply to
this email with your EOI.
*Goddess-ence
100% pure essential oil blend
Energise your Third Eye Chakra to "see the big picture" (and get out
of the maze!) with this blend of six 100% pure essential oils.
Understand your place in the world as an embodiment of divine
expression. Trust in your own intuition and wisdom, and the courage to
act on your instincts. Open the doors to love, allowing you to unclutter
your life and focus on the things that really matter.
This newsletter is created with loving intention by Aussie author, Anita Revel. Contact Anita simply by replying to this email.
Copyright notice: The author is happy
for you to share the weekly goddess with your friends and circle, but
please, credit the author and provide a courtesy link / pointer to Goddess.com.au
Blissed be!
iGoddess.com, PO Box 1800, Margaret River, Western Australia 6285, AUSTRALIA
'May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings tenderly beating.' The Universal Heart Center http://www.freewebs.com/moshayra
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Abraham Hicks: Daily Quote - 11/08/2010
Posted by: "Ash" mhc4sure@yahoo.com mhc4sure
Mon Nov 8, 2010 4:47 am (PST)
We encourage you to make peace with everyone who opposes you and
with everyone whom you oppose, not only because you cannot insist on
their yielding to your perspective but because their opposing perspective
is of tremendous benefit to you.You see, because of your
exposure to what you perceive as their wrong or bad or
unwanted behavior or perspectiveâ"you have given birth to an
improved situation. And just as they helped the problem side of
the equation to come into focus, they helped the solution side
of the equation to come into focus, also; and that solution waits for you
in your Vortex of Creation.Through our daily meditation
process, you will come into alignment with those solutions and creations
that are in your Vortex, and from inside your Vortex, you will feel
appreciation for everyone who contributed to its becoming.
When you make peace with those who differ in desire and
belief and behavior from your ideas of what is appropriate, you do not
perpetuate what you consider to be wrong. Instead, you align with the
solution side of the equation that has been waiting for you in your
Vortex of Creation.
--- Abraham
This is 8 of 32 practical expanded quotes excerpted from
Abrahamâs new Getting into the Vortex Guided Meditation CD and
User Guide that will be available everywhere on Nov. 15, 2010.
To order, click here
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Re: Introduction
Posted by: "sandy jarman" catallday2001@yahoo.com gardengoddess170
Mon Nov 8, 2010 4:53 am (PST)
Thank you, Katrina!
--- On Mon, 11/8/10, Katrina <katrina.ragozy@gmail.com > wrote:
From: Katrina <katrina.ragozy@gmail.com >
Subject: [which_witch_is_witch] Re: Introduction
To: which_witch_is_witch@ yahoogroups. com
Date: Monday, November 8, 2010, 12:10 AM
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Welcome to the group Sandi. May you find what you seek here with us.
********************* ********* ********* ********* ********* ********* ****
Some things are best left unknown.
Trust is the hardest thing to gain and the easiest to destroy.
The longest journey is the journey inward.
Dag Hammarskjold
-------Original Message-------
From: catallday2001@yahoo.com
Name: Sandi
How many years young are you?
I am 40 years old and happy to be old and wise rather than young and stupid as I was in youth. I am an Aquarius sun, Cancer moon , Gemini ascending. Yeah , I am a bit of a mess.
What town/county do you live in?:
I am originally from Orlando, Florida but I now live in Pensacola. I hope to be in the NC mountains soon.
What path/belief/tradition/ religion do you follow or drawn too?
Hmmm? This is a tough question because I have gone through a bit of a transformation and although I am a witch my beliefs tend to be more spiritual , Native American, and sometimes agnostic. It seems I am in a kind of rebirth. One thing I am sure of is that I am part of nature and that is where I find God/dess.
Which God/Goddess are you closest to?:
HMMM, Well, I will always be faithful and grateful to my mother Hecate but I feel more of a connection when I address mother father nurturer, protector, provider . I guess this could be part of my transition . Feels right to me.
Do you have a "totem" or power animal?:
Cats , specifically ferals. Of course I have a love hate relationship with frogs . They fascinate me but scare me.
What other "non-pagan" things are you interested in?:
Oh boy ! Don't hold it against me but I love Documentaries! I do lot of research on ancient history and the Sumerian texts as well as any other religious history, even if it involves aliens. Actually I love alien theories and the way figure into the 2012 prophesy. I also love conspiracy theories such as NWO and the reptilian Illuminati.
Oh and I am an accounting major at Pensacola state College planning on transferring to UWF.
How long have you been interested/studying/practicing? :
My Grandmother raised me in her Native American ways not as a religion because our past is really disconnected but she always said she was Lutheran , i have no idea what that is because she never said. I guess I made a complete change over after 9/11 , although I had been dabbling in Santeria and divination before that.
Do you have a book of Shadows?:
I keep journals! years and years of journals. Some of poetry and prayers , other more like diaries and self discovery. I keep a lot of my stuff on my PC on files.
Do you have an Altar?:
Yes, It was boxed for awhile and I recently set it back up. Right now it is so cluttered because my beliefs are so varied. When you research and study you see the similarities in all religions. During my recent research I was pronounced a member of Islam. Still confused on how that happened but I have the certificate to prove it . (peace be with you all). I will ad this to my alter but I guess then I'll have to pull up my pentecostal baptism and my mormom membership too.
Coven or solitary? preference?
Ummm, well is there an Islamic , Sumerian , wiccan, spiritualist, shamanic, alien cult, coven around? Ok, I'd say eclectic solitary.
What is your favorite Witchcraft, Paganism, Magic web site?:
I don't think I have one. Does nat geo count?
Anything else you'd like to tell the group about yourself or
Your path?
I believe that life is a journey on a path of knowledge with the end wisdom and self discovery. All paths lead to God/dess.
Blessed be!
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Deborah Kind: Join me for a Global Wellness Event!
Posted by: "Ash" mhc4sure@yahoo.com mhc4sure
Mon Nov 8, 2010 5:07 am (PST)
I am honored to be one of the faculty of Wellness Revolution 2:
More Paths to Healing, a phenomenal FREE global telesummit - a
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This web event is a gathering of over 21 â" we have surprise guest speakers, so we canât say exactly how many
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This
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But better yet, will you join us for these live
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This breakthrough series starts on Monday, November 8th at 4 PM Pacific, 5
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Mark your calendars. I
will be speaking on Truth Heals: What you Hide Can Hurt You on Monday,
December
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so we will be getting into new developments and you will be amazed at
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All of
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This explains all the buzz that's going on!
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About Paranormal: Haunted in Seattle
Posted by: "Ash" mhc4sure@yahoo.com mhc4sure
Mon Nov 8, 2010 5:19 am (PST)
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Zen is All-Inclusive
Posted by: "Ash" mhc4sure@yahoo.com mhc4sure
Mon Nov 8, 2010 5:31 am (PST)
Source: ONE LOVE ONE HEART ONE VISION
Zen
is all-inclusive. It never denies, it never says no to anything; it
accepts everything and transforms it into a higher reality. Osho.
... regina ...
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Power Animal of the Day: Zebra
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Mon Nov 8, 2010 5:47 am (PST)
http://www.poweranimalsunleashed. com/power_ animal_017zebra. htm
The Zebra
Individuality
Health Harmony
Take
a deep breath and let the spirit of the zebra fill you.
Click here to listen to the Zebra's Song.
Zebra energy will help you to
take the apparently conflicting parts of your personality and weave them into a
pattern which is unique, distinctive and beautiful. As a zebra, the artist
within you can live in harmony with the businessperson, the spiritual explorer
with the secular decision-maker, the dreamer with the practical goal-setter,
neither overpowering the other, each retaining its place of importance and full
expression. The zebra will teach you to honor the black and white sides of
yourself without compromising yourself into a dull gray.
The zebra will also teach you
how to seek out others who are like you, finding comfort and company in groups,
while maintaining your own unique identity, your pattern of stripes like a
fingerprint, unlike any other. This combination of individuality within
community will be a very powerful force in your life.
The zebra energy is also the
energy of physical health, long life and great stamina. Breathe in this vital
source of very real physical power. Feel how you are capable of running across
the plains for hour after hour, each step filling you with vibrant earth energy,
so that the more you exercise, the more energized you become. Then just kick up
your heals with joy, for you are the zebra, vital and alive. How fortunate you
are!
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Quado's Garden: Observe
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Mon Nov 8, 2010 5:54 am (PST)
http://www.quado.com/quados- garden/050822. htm
Observe
Today is perfect
in all its unfolding. Today it will unfold as it will unfold, a combination of
your energies and the energies which are coming toward you, a combination of
things already set in place and things that will occur just in the moment. All
of this will be unfolding and your job is to create wonderful, positive energy,
which encourages those things that are beneficial to you and to be very alert
and observant, responding to things as they are in the moment.
Listen closely. Watch
closely. Be open and receptive and willing to make great shifts to your
previous ideas of how things should be.
Opportunities are most
often missed when you are trying to fit the circumstances into a preconceived
shape. Let things flow and be as they are. Let life take shape as it will.
Just step back and watch and listen before you act.
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Lady Julie's Daily Quote
Posted by: "Ash" mhc4sure@yahoo.com mhc4sure
Mon Nov 8, 2010 6:22 am (PST)
Source: Lady Julie via Ravensgrove Coven
Daily Quote:
âIt
was on that road and at that hour that I first became aware of my own
self, experienced an inexpressible state of grace, and felt one with the
first breath of air that stirred, the first bird, and the sun so newly
born that it still looked not quite round.â
~ Colette ~
Brightest Blessings,
Lady Julie
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Calm
Posted by: "Ash" mhc4sure@yahoo.com mhc4sure
Mon Nov 8, 2010 6:27 am (PST)
Source: ONE LOVE ONE HEART ONE VISION
Calm
in quietude is not real calm. When you can be calm in the midst of
activity, this is the true state of nature. Happiness in comfort is not
real happiness. When you can be happy in the midst of hardship, then you
see the true potential of the mind. Huanchu Daoren.
... regina ...
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Colleen Joy: The water of experience
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Mon Nov 8, 2010 8:46 am (PST)
Dear Friends
What is the difference between belief and knowing? You believe until you know, and the bridge is experience.
This lesson offers a valuable look at this important idea. How many
of our wars are fought over differences in belief - wars between
countries and wars in the heart? Let's cross the bridge to the peace of
knowing. When you know you don't need to defend or attack.
The water of experience - Lesson 41:
Imagine meeting someone who had never seen, touched or drank water.
If you tried to teach someone about water but theyâd never experienced
water before â" never drunk it, never swam in it, never washed in it â"
how could you truly convey what water is? What would you say? What would
you try?
The person you were teaching about water could take notes, they could
study water from theory you gave them, they could debate with you about
what other teachers have said, they could analyze concepts about water,
they could compare concepts and draw conclusions (more concepts) about
water (does this sound familiar) â" but how different is the theory of
water from the experience of water?
Wouldnât it be best to take them to the water and let them jump in?
Life is like the water. You are already in it, but are you experiencing it or just taking notes?
The waters of your life can heal, can cleanse, are life giving, but can only be experienced to be known!
Are you jumping in and really experiencing, or are you
listening to others talk about it. Are you taking notes and debating
about all that you have heard, or are you swimming?
The mind cannot get us there, only experiencing each step can. The mind can only help us to describe and map out our journeyTruth is found only through personal direct experience.
The rest is belief and semantics.
How much of the seekerâs journey is spent in the maze of the intellect? How much energy is spent arguing about truth, debating and comparing instead of experiencing? How many of our worldâs wars are fought over claimed truths that are firmly held in the mind and not experienced in the heart.
3 truths worth experiencing
Talking about unconditional love is worlds apart from experiencing unconditional love. Perceiving water (or anything in life) is only full of assumption until it is felt. Until a truth is experienced, it remains a belief.
So how do we get to truth?
The waters of truth lie within ourselves, your apple tree is your deepest truth.
Meditation -
What are you not fully experiencing? In meditation, open yourself to
the intention of more fully experiencing your life. See if you can sense
the life in your body - and fully experience it, deeper than thinking,
but full feeling and full exngaging in the body's awareness. Let the
advenure of your full experience unfold.
Question -
How can you more fully experience your life?
All my love,
Colleen-Joy
InnerLifeSkills Coaching International
Empowering you to Empower others
Office Tel: (+27) 071 6899113
To join these 52 weeks of Apple Tree lessons visit www.colleen-joy.com
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Daily Devotions of the Goddess
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Mon Nov 8, 2010 8:52 am (PST)
Source: Lady Abigail
Daily Devotions of the Goddess
Know
my children that my heart welcomes all that desire to love and to be
loved freely. For true love comes within complete trust and without
judgments.
Lady Abigail
Copyright 10212010
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Path of the Soul Card Reading: Egyptian Eagle
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Mon Nov 8, 2010 9:08 am (PST)
http://soulvibes.ca/just-for- fun/destiny- card-reading. html
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Tiny Wisdom: On EmotionsNov 08, 2010 12:34 am | Lori Deschene
âYou cannot make yourself feel something you do not
feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.â
~Pearl S. Buck
There are a lot of things we arenât going to want to do in life.
We wonât always want to get up and go to workâ"we might feel
frustrated with what seems like a dead end job. We wonât always want to
face people who hurt usâ"we might prefer to sit around stewing in
negative feelings and bitterness about the past.
But doing is the first step toward changing something that isnât
working. Going to that job allows you to take care of yourself so you
can work toward something better. Facing the people who hurt you gives
you an opportunity to communicate your feelings and set boundaries to
prevent future problems.
We canât always feel positive things, but we can always choose to do something positive with what we feel.
Today if youâre feeling paralyzed by emotion, ask yourself these
question: once this feeling passes, as feelings often do, what will I
want to feel in itâs place? What can I do now to create that feeling
instead of sitting around waiting for it to come?
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How to Deal with Uncomfortable Feelings & Create Positive OnesNov 08, 2010 12:29 am | Lori Deschene
by Lori Deschene
âHope is the feeling that the feeling you have isnât permanent.â ~Jean Kerr
For as long as I can remember, I have been a fugitive from my feelings.
Psychologists suggest that we are driven by two connected
motivations: to feel pleasure and avoid pain. Most of us devote more
energy to the latter than the former.
Instead of being proactive and making choices for our happiness, we
react to things that happen in our lives, and fight or flee to minimize
our pain.
Instead of deciding to end an unhealthy relationship and open up to a better one, we may stay and either avoid confrontation or
initiate one to feel a sense of control. Instead of leaving a horrible
job to find one we love, we may stay and complain about it all the time,
trying to minimize the pain of accepting the situation as realâ"and
enduring until we change it.
From a very young age, I felt overwhelmed by pain. As a pre-teen, I
ate my feelings. As a teen, I starved them away. In college, I drank and
smoked them numb. And in my twenties, I felt and cried my eyes red and
raw.
I sobbed. I wailed. I shook and convulsed. And I wished Iâd never
chosen to feel them, but rather kept pushing them down, pretending
everything was fine.
Except when I did that, they didnât just go awayâ"they compounded on
top each other and built up until eventually I exploded, with no idea
why I felt so bad.
One time when I was 17, I couldnât open a jar of jelly. After ten
minutes of twisting, banging, and fighting, I finally threw it at a wall
and broke down.
You may think that was a sure sign I had emotional problems, and assume there was some pill to help anesthetize that sadness.
Thatâs what a lot of people thought. But the reality was a lot
simpler: I simply never dealt with my feelings from events large and
small, and eventually they dealt with me.
As unpleasant as it may sound, I needed to learn how to feel badâ"but
first I needed to understand why I felt bad so often. Itâs a whole lot
easier to deal with pain when itâs not the default feeling.
This, Iâve learned, comes down to three steps:
Developing emotional intelligence.Learning to sit with negative feelings.Creating situations for positive feelings.
Emotional Intelligence
Researchers originated this idea as the missing link in terms of
success and effectiveness in life. It didnât seem to make sense why
people with high IQs and superior reasoning, verbal, and math skills
could still struggle in social and professional situations.
If you have a high EIQ, you likely regulate your emotions well;
handle uncertainties and difficulties without excessive panic, stress,
and fear; and avoid overreacting to situations before knowing the full
details.
If you have a low EIQ, you might be oversensitive to other peopleâs
feelings in response to you; obsess about problems until you find a
concrete solution; and frequently feel a tsunami of emotions that you
canât attribute to a specific life event. Or in other words, you may
feel bad far more often than you feel good.
Some Steps to Improve Your Emotional Intelligence:
1. Understand what emotional intelligence looks like.
Psychologist Daniel Goleman identified five elements to EI: self awareness, self regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills.
This means you understand whatâs going on in your head and heart; you
donât make hasty decisions on impulse; you can motivate yourself to
delay gratification; you listen to, understand, and relate to other
people well; and youâre able to focus on other people.
You can read more about these ideas in Golemanâs book Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More than IQ.
2. Use meditation to regulate emotions.
Last year, I began exploring emotional intelligence after meeting Googleâs Chade-Meng Tan, and listed a few meditation tips
to help with EI. Itâs infinitely easier to deal with emotions as they
arise if youâve already done a little work to create a calm inner space.
3. Take an honest look at your reactions.
Do you frequently jump to conclusions without knowing all the facts?
Do you need other peopleâs approval to feel comfortable in your own
skin? Do you assume you know what other people feel and take
responsibility for that? Do you freak out over stressful situations,
blaming other people, getting hard on yourself, and panicking over
possible consequences?
4. Practice observing your feelings and taking responsibility for them.
Itâs not always easy to understand a feeling when it happens, especially if you think you shouldnât
feel it; but forget about should. Instead, try to pinpoint exactly what
you feelâ"scared, frustrated, worried, ashamed, agitated, angryâ"and then
pinpoint what might be the cause. Reserve all judgment.
Simply find the cause and effect,
i.e.: your employer seemed unhappy with your work, so now you feel
stressed, or your significant other expressed dissatisfaction, so now
you feel scared. Anytime you feel something uncomfortable that youâd
rather avoid, put a magnifying glass on it.
Once you know what you feel, you can now challenge both the cause and the effect.
You can ask yourself whether or not youâre overreacting to the event
or worrying to find a sense of control. And then you can accept that
there is an alternativeâ"you can choose to interpret the situation a
different way, soothe yourself, and then feel something different. No
one else causes our feelings. Only we can choose and change them.
Learn to Sit with Negative Feelings
Even if you reframe a situation to see things differently, there will
be times when you still feel something that seems negative. While not
every situation requires panic, sometimes our feelings are appropriate
for the events going on in our lives.
We are allowed to feel whatever we need to feel. If we lose someone,
weâre allowed to hurt. If we hurt someone, weâre allowed to feel guilty.
If we make a mistake, weâre allowed to feel regretful. Positive thinking can be a powerful tool for happiness, but itâs more detrimental than helpful if we use it to avoid dealing with life.
Pain is part of life, and we canât avoid it by resisting it. We can only minimize it by accepting it and dealing with it well.
That means feeling the pain and knowing it will pass. No feeling
lasts forever. It means sitting in the discomfort and waiting before
acting. There will come a time when you feel healed and empowered.
I donât regret much in life, but in retrospect, some of the most
damaging decisions I have made have resulted from me feeling the need to
do something with my emotions. Iâd feel angry and want to hurt someone.
Or Iâd feel ashamed and want to hurt myself.
Our power comes from realizing we donât need to act on pain; and if
we need to diffuse it, we can channel it into something healthy and
productive, like writing, painting, or doing something physical.
Pain is sometimes an indication we need to set boundaries, learn to say no
more often, or take better care of ourselves; but sometimes it just
means that itâs human to hurt, and we need to let ourselves go through
it.
Create Situations for Positive Feelings
This is the last part of the puzzle. As I mentioned before, we tend
to be more reactive than active, but thatâs a decision to let the
outside world dictate how we feel.
We donât need to sit around waiting for other people to evoke our
feelings. Instead, we can take responsibility to create our own inner
world.
We can identify what we want to say yes to in life and choose that
before struggling with whether or not to say not to someone else. If you
love dancing, take a class. If your greatest passion is writing, start a
blog. If you daydream about being a musician, start recording.
Donât worry about where itâs leading. Do it just because you love it.
For me, this is Community Theater. I performed all growing up, and yet I
hardly ever did in my 20s. There was always an excuseâ"I was too busy or
I couldnât find an audition.
Last year I defied those beliefs and auditioned for Gypsy in
San Mateo. I didnât get castâ"likely because I somehow developed two
left feet after nearly a decade without moving to musicâ"but I remembered
how much I love acting. And I felt a renewed sense of confidence when
the director pulled me aside and said I should audition for the next
show because my scene was powerful.
I need more of that. We all need more of that. We need to do the things we loveâ"or as Sonya Derian phrased it: make feeling good our new religion.
Concluding Thoughts
Negative feelings are only negative if theyâre excessive and
enduring. We wonât hurt ourselves into eternal misery if we let
ourselves feel what we need to.
Still, we donât have to feel bad nearly as often as we think.
If we choose to foster a sense of inner peace, challenge our
perceptions and interpretations when our emotions could use some
schooling, and learn to take responsibility for our joy, we can not only
minimize painâ"we can choose to be a source of pleasure, for ourselves
and the people around us.
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Please Donate Blood, 11/8/2010, 2:00 pm
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Reminder from: which_witch_is_witch Yahoo! Group
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Please Donate Blood
Monday November 8, 2010
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
(This event repeats every month.)
Location: The direct number to donate on behalf of AJ Beatrice is 800-439-6876 he is o negative.
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Fairy Animals
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Mon Nov 8, 2010 11:05 am (PST)
A heads up before scrolling through that this is very extensive but worth to have a copy of regarding animals and fairy associations. love, Shay
Source: Jodi
fairy animals
(Extract from the Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Fairies)
ADDER - in Scottish lore the adder, a poisonous SNAKE, often represents
the power of the CAILLEACH or fairy HAG of winter. At IMBOLC [2nd
February], it is defeated by the lamb of the maiden BRIGHID.
AHUIZOTL is an Aztec WATER FAIRY who resembles a cross between a DOG and
a monkey, but with a human hand at the end of its tail. It lures people
into water, where it devours their eyes, teeth and nails.
ANTHROPOPHAGI ['Man Eating'] are strange fairies are mentioned in
Shakespeare' s Merry Wives of Windsor and in Othello. They have no
heads, their brains are near their sexual organs, their eyes appear on
their shoulders and their mouths in the centres of their chests. They
have no noses at all. They are cannibals and eat human beings,
afterwards using the bones for tools and the skulls for cups.
ARIMASPEANS ['One-eyed'] are strange beings who lived near the route
along which votive offerings were sent to the Greek god Apollo's shrine.
Their name means 'one-eyed' and it may be a code for MUSHROOMS, perhaps
FLY AGARIC mushrooms, used shamanically. There are many one-eyed
spirits and fairies.
ATUA or Nuku Mai Tore ['People of the Otherworld'] are Polynesian
fairies who fly and live in the trees. They are nature fairies, or
NYMPHS, manifest in animals, plants, and the weather though they
sometimes marry humans and act like HOUSE FAIRIES. The atua are highly
honoured and it is not permitted to speak their names.
AUGHISKY or Augh-Iska is a ghoulish Irish WATER HORSE that inhabits
streams and lochs and lures human victims into the water where it tears
them to pieces and devours them, leaving only their livers. It comes
ashore in November, and if you can catch one, saddle and bridle it, then
it will make a fine horse, but never ride it near the water or it will
return to its origins and unpleasant habits.
BADBH or Badb or Bahbh ['Raven' or 'Scald-crow' ] is a generic term in
Ireland for a bad fairy, a WITCH or type of BANSHEE that appears as a
CROW or RAVEN to presage death. The term is probably derived from the
name of the Celtic war goddess Badbh who appears in triad with NEMAIN
and MACHA under the collective name of MORRIGAN. She sometimes appears
as a lovely maiden, at other times as an ugly HAG or bird. She presides
over the battlefield and is seen before a battle washing the armour of
those about to die. She manifested as a WASHER AT THE FORD to the hero
Cuchulain. She may be one of the origins of the BANSHEE, since a common
form of a banshee is a crow, perching on the house of one about to die.
BAKU, the Eater of Dreams, causes NIGHTMARES in Japan. It has the head
of a lion, the body of a HORSE, the tail of a COW, and the feet of a
tiger.
BLACK DOGS or phantom hounds are found all over Britain and Europe. They
appear in lonely places; CROSSROADS, bridges, old roads, deserted
country lanes, churchyards, burial MOUNDS, wells and bridges. They
linger near field stiles and gates. They seem to guard man made
structures, particularly borders of various kinds, some speculate on a
connection between black dogs and LEY LINES. They are usually slightly
larger than mortal dogs, have red, green or burning eyes or just a
single eye. Some are headless and have their saucer eyes floating before
them. East Anglia, Essex and Buckinghamshire all have instances of
spectral dogs that vanished in sensational flashes, in one case burning
to death a farmer, his horse and wagon.[1]
The black dog is an object of fear and terror. Its appearance is usually
an ill omen, portending death for the one that sees it or a member of
their family. Charles Walton met a black dog on his way home to
Alveston, on NINE successive evenings. On the ninth night a headless dog
charged past him and the succeeding day, he heard of his sister's
death. [2]In East Anglia, when a man is dying, it is said that 'the
Black Dog is at his heels'. Some black dogs will commit murder and
mutilation themselves. The inspiration for the death-hound of Arthur
Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles was the tale of a Dartmoor
black dog.
There are hundreds of black dogs all over England [forty in the county
of Wiltshire alone], and they often have local names. In East Anglia,
the dog is BLACK SHUCK or Old Shuck; in Suffolk Old Shock; in Somerset
the Gurt Dog. In the North of England, we find the BARGUEST, Black Shag,
Padfoot and Hooter, Gytrash and Trash or Skriker. On the Isle of Man is
the MODDEY DHOO. In addition to single black dogs, there are packs of
spectral hounds, some of which are accompanied by WILD HUNTSMEN. These
are seen all over Europe and include the British GABRIEL HOUNDS, Gabble
Retchets, Dandy Dogs, Yeff Hounds, Wisht Hounds, and the Cwm Annwn, the
WILD HUNT and Woden's Hunt in Scandinavia. All are a warning of death or
disaster.
BLACK SHAG is a fearful BLACK DOG whose appearance is an OMEN OF DEATH.
BLACK SHUCK or Old Shuck is a phantom dog that haunts the mud flats of
East Anglia, particularly the area around Devil's Ditch. The name is
derived from the Saxon word for an evil spirit scucca. Grendel, the
monster of the Old English epic poem Beowulf, was described as a scucca
and 'from his eyes shone a fire-like, baleful light'. Black Shuck is
variously described as having a single eye set in the centre of his
head, or having glowing red eyes, or even as being headless, yet having
glowing red or green fiery eyes suspended in front of him. He emerges
from his lair at dusk and haunts riverbanks and lonely roads, sometimes
vanishing in churchyards. When a Black Shuck appears it is generally an
OMEN OF DEATH, and in Norfolk it is said that no one can see a Black
Shuck and live. People in lonely places have sometimes felt its icy
breath on their necks, and in East Anglia, when people are dying, it is
said that 'the BLACK DOG is at his heels'. The Essex Shuck is kindlier
and protects travellers in lonely places. In Suffolk the Black Shuck is
believed to be harmless if left alone, but if challenged will strike and
kill the aggressor. The Norfolk Shuck is terrifying, an ebony creature
whose fiendish howls can be heard above the wildest gales. The
Cambridgeshire Shuck is sinister and may be seen between Wicken and the
marshes of Spinney Abbey. His appearance warns of a death in the family.
BLACKBIRD - in Welsh lore these are birds which enchant the hearer and
lead them into the fairy OTHERWORLD. They are called the Birds of
RHIANNON.
BUTTERFLIES are the symbol of the SIDHE in Irish lore. Fairies are often
pictured as riding on the backs of butterflies. ANGELS and fairies were
sometimes depicted with butterfly wings by mediaeval artists. In Celtic
cultures, the butterfly is an emblem of the human soul, or perhaps a
soul in actuality. The ancient Celts wore butterfly badges as a mark of
respect for the ancestral spirits of the DEAD.
CAIT SITH ['Fairy Cat'] is a black CAT of the Scottish Highlands, with
one white spot on its breast. It belongs to the fairies. However, it may
be that the cat is really a transformed WITCH.
CAT - fairies often transform themselves into cats, usually WHITE ones,
and it is difficult to know whether a supernatural cat is really a fairy
or its pet. In Ireland, ordinary cats are thought to be practically
fairies themselves and on the ISLE OF MAN the cat is the only creature
tolerated by fairies when they enter a house at night. Indeed, the
tailless Manx cats were bred by fairies. The Celts believed that looking
into a cat's eyes would enable you to see the fairies, or see into the
OTHERWORLD.
There are many legends of fairies taking the forms of cats. Fairy cats
come in a variety of forms. One wild breed, as large as dogs, are black
with a white spot on their breasts, arched backs and erect bristles. In
Scotland the Cait Sith ['fairy cats'] have dark green eyes and very long
ears, though many believe these are really WITCHES in disguise. Fairy
cats still keep appearing in Britain; there are regular newspaper
reports of unearthly cats, usually black. Sometimes they are the size of
ordinary cats but are often much larger.
CATH PULUG ['Clawing Cat'] is a monstrous fairy CAT which was slain by King ARTHUR or some say Sir Kay.
CENTAURS ['Those Who Round Up Bulls'] have the upper bodies of men and
the lower bodies of other beasts, usually horses [hippocentaur] but
sometimes donkeys [onocentaur] or even fish [ichthyocentaur] , as do
many modern fairies who are half animal in appearance. In Greek myth
Centaurs were the children of Ixion, a mortal man who tried to seduce
the goddess Hera. Outraged at his impudence, Zeus formed a cloud in the
shape of Hera and Ixion was deceived into mating with it. From this
union the monster Centaurus was produced, who later mated with the
horses on Mount Pelion who gave birth to centaurs. They are usually wild
and unruly but one called Chiron was wise and skilled. He taught many
of the Greek heroes including Herakles, and at his death was placed in
the stars as the constellation Sagittarius.
It has been suggested that at some point in the early
days of horse riding, a man mistook horse and rider for a single beast
and this gave rise to a myth of centaurs. Alternatively, it may have
been a term applied to the Scythians, who spent most of their time on
horseback, rounding up their cattle, and who were reputed to have
appalling manners and customs.
CHEVAL BAYARD is a mischievous Normandy fairy who appears in the form of
a HORSE but when humans get astride him he throws them into the bushes.
He is the horse form of the LUTIN.
CHÃËVRES DANSANTES ['Dancing GOATS'] are dancing French fairies which appear as the Northern Lights.
COBS are Warwickshire HOBGOBLINS and much feared. They were originally
evil fairies who took the shape of HORSES [cob is another word for a
saddle horse]. From them came the now defunct HALLOWEEN custom of going
out with a mock horse head covered in a sheet to frighten the timid. [3]
COWS are a subject of great interest to fairies. European fairies
frequently manifest as cows, usually WHITE in colour, while Egyptian
fairies are associated with the cow-headed goddess HATHOR. Many fairies
steal MILK from unattended cattle or attack them as they stand in the
byre, only deterred by special charms such as ROWAN and RED THREAD, or
PRIMROSE bouquets.
Fairies keep herds of cattle themselves, customarily under a lake or
beneath the sea where the animals graze on seaweed. Occasionally one of
these cro sith or 'fairy cattle' appears on the shore as a gift for a
human farmer. He is fortunate, as it will provide endless supplies of
milk. There are several Scots legends of fairy cattle left as gifts,
identified by their round ears. In Ireland a sacred white heifer would
appear every MAY DAY to bring luck to a certain farmer. Sometimes
though, the fairies send an enchanted cow into a mortal herd in order to
steal cattle. If the farmer is not vigilant it will lure his herd into a
fairy MOUND and they will never be seen again. Sometimes when fairies
steal away a cow the appearance of the cow is left but the substance is
gone. The cow will pine away and die within a short space of time.
Otherworldly cattle are common in British and Irish lore, recognised by
their red or round ears. A herd of cattle descended from fairy cows have
grazed the parkland around Chillingham Castle in Northumberland since
the thirteenth century. They have the red ears and white coats of fairy
cattle, and it is said that they will kill anyone who touches them. A
white fairy calf haunts the countryside around Liphook in Hampshire.
According to an old belief if a man should give a cow to the poor, at
his death the spirit of the animal will return to guide him to the
OTHERWORLD. See also DUN COW.
CROW [Corvus corone corone]- fairies are often accompanied by, or change
into crows, though crows, RAVENS and other black carrion birds are
interchangeable in many mythologies. The Greek for crow corone also
yields corax or 'raven', while in Latin corus or 'raven' has the same
root as cornix which means 'crow'. Whether natural or supernatural,
crows were considered to be OMENS, particularly of death; a crow in a
churchyard is a portent of death. The crow is a carrion bird that feeds
on corpses, known as birds of the scaffold, since they were often found
perching and feeding on the old gibbets. It was very much associated
with WITCHES and witchcraft and was said to have the gift of PROPHECY,
and therefore became an ingredient in many potions used in fortune
telling. The crow is a form taken by several ancient HAG goddesses and
fairies, such as the Greek Coronis, the Irish BADB, and the MORRIGAN.
CUCKOO is the eun sith or 'fairy bird' of TIR-NAN-OG. In the winter it
disappears from the land and enters the fairy MOUNDS, not to be seen
again in Britain and Ireland until the spring.
CURUPIRA or Curupuri or Caypór or Cururipur is a kind of forest
HOBGOBLIN or WILD MAN of Brazil who is ugly and deformed with RED skin,
red eyes, back to front cloven FEET and long shaggy, RED HAIR. A
piercing cry of 'te wo yi' sometimes resounds through the forests and
this is attributed to him, though he is not generally considered very
threatening. However, he does protect tortoises from hunters.
CWN ANNWN ['Hounds of ANNWN'or 'Hounds of Hell'] are Welsh Hounds of
the UNDERWORLD, red eared, white fairy dogs of the WILD HUNT. The Hunt
is lead by ARAWN, or sometimes by GWYN AP NUDD who is both the King of
the Fairies and the King of the Dead. It rides out on wild and stormy
nights to pursue the souls of the newly dead. To hear it is an OMEN OF
DEATH. The call of the dogs grows quieter the nearer they come, sounding
'like that of small beetles', but in the distance their cry is full of
lamentation 'like that of a bloodhound'. [4] They are called Cwn-wybir
['Sky-dogs'] since their eerie cries are heard from the air, and Cwn
bendith eu Mammau ['Dogs of the Fairies'].
DANDO AND HIS DOGS or Dandy Dogs is a Cornish version of the WILD HUNT,
said to be lead by the DEVIL himself or by Dando. The BLACK DOGs breathe
fire and utter terrible cries. Dando was the name of a parson of St
Germans who was given to all forms of disreputable behaviour and was
passionately fond of hunting. One Sunday he and his friends were out
hunting over St. Earth way and were joined by a strange huntsman on a
splendid fiery horse. At the close of the hunt, Dando called for a
drink, but he had already emptied all the flasks and horns his servants
had with them.
'Well, if you can't find any on earth, go to hell for it!' he cried. The
stranger bowed and handed him a drinking horn. Dando drained it and
declared it the best he had ever tasted. Then he fell to quarrelling
with the stranger about whose bag the game belonged to and Dando
declared he would go to hell rather than let the stranger have it.
'So you shall!' exclaimed the stranger, and seizing Dando plunged with
him and his dogs into the deepest pool, going down in a cloud of steam
and fire. Dando and dogs are still heard early on Sunday mornings,
pelting past in full cry.[5]
DARTMOOR HOUNDS is a Devonshire version of the WILD HUNT, a pack of
ghostly dogs that fly through the night sky to pursue their quarry.
DEER and red deer [Cervus elaphus] in particular are associated with
fairies. Fairy women often assume the form of red deer. On the Isle of
Mull deer are said to be the only cattle of fairies. During the winter
they are protected by the CAILLEACH or HAG and her women, who herd and
milk them. Tradition has it that no deer is ever found dead with age,
and the shed horns are never found because the fairies hide them.
Fairies dislike deer hunters and throw ELF-BOLTS at them. When a slain
deer is carried home at night the fairies press down on the bearer's
back until he feels as though he is carrying a house. Should he stick an
IRON or steel knife in the carcass it will frighten off the fairies and
the body will become light again.
DOGS hate fairies and chase them, but when they return all the hair is
scraped off their bodies and they die soon after. However, fairies keep
special hounds themselves. These cu sith ['fairy dogs'] act as guides to
the fairy realms and lead people into the UNDERWORLD. They are usually
green or white with RED ears, though in Wales pure WHITE dogs are
considered to be fairy dogs. In Eastern Europe fairy dogs have white
rings around their necks and carry fairies around at night on their
backs. The Irish hero Finn Mac Cumhal's dog Bran was of the fairy breed
and was described as having yellow feet, black sides, a white belly, a
green back, and red ears. Bran's venomous bite killed whatever it
struck. The fairy dog makes its lair in the clefts of rocks and travels
in a straight line. It barks only THREE times and by the time the third
bark is heard the victim is overtaken unless he has reached a place of
safety.
Dogs are associated with death and the underworld. Even ordinary dogs
are thought to be able to see GHOSTS and to be able to foretell disaster
and the death of their owners - a dog howling at night is an OMEN OF
DEATH. There are many tales of ghostly and phantom hounds, usually BLACK
DOGS that haunt lonely places. Ghostly dogs haunt the northern and
eastern coasts of Britain. This may be a folk memory of the Viking
invaders who brought with them the stories of the Hounds of Odin. The
mud flats of East Anglia are haunted by a phantom dog known as BLACK
SHUCK or Old Shuck, a name derived from the Saxon word for the Devil,
succa. He is variously described as having a single eye set in the
centre of his head, or having glowing red eyes, or even as being
headless, yet having glowing eyes suspended in front of him. A black dog
is often associated with magic and witchcraft, demonic powers and
death, and often appears as a warning of death.
Many legends of Britain and Europe tell of the WILD HUNT, a pack of
ghostly dogs who fly through the night sky to pursue their quarry. The
hunt was known to the Saxons as Einherier or Herlathing, the hunt is
also called WISHT HOUNDS or DARTMOOR HOUNDS. The leadership of the hunt
has been ascribed to HERNE THE HUNTER, King ARTHUR, the DEVIL,
Charlemagne, GWYN AP NUDD, Odin and Woden. The prey is variously a white
stag, a white boar, white-breasted maidens, or the souls of the damned.
Some say the hounds are the souls of UNBAPTISED CHILDREN. One Cornish
tale concerned a small black dog accidentally left behind by the hunt,
which had to be looked after well and fed for a year before being
claimed by the hunt or bad luck would follow. Perhaps one of the reasons
dogs are associated with death and the underworld is because they are
used to hunt down and kill prey.
Dogs have a long history as companions to humankind. There is evidence
that in Palaeolithic times they shared humankind's homes and work,
guarding houses, flocks and possessions. They have become the symbol of
watchfulness and loyalty. As well as being a mundane guardian, dogs were
also guardian of the THRESHOLD, Underworld TREASURE and the boundaries
between the worlds. In Neolithic and Bronze Age burial sites ritually
killed dogs have been found, buried to serve as spirit guardians. [6]
Dogs feature in ritual sacrifice and early burial rituals; as recently
as mediaeval times they were buried in doorways or the walls of
buildings to protect the house. Dog gall was made into a perfume and
anointed onto walls to prevent evil spirits and witchcraft from entering
a house. It was once a superstition that the first person to be buried
in a churchyard would have to guard any subsequent buried souls, so it
was the custom to sacrifice a dog to serve as a substitute- specifically
a completely black one without a single white hair - and bury it in the
foundation of the church. This is perhaps the origin of the English
CHURCH GRIM and the Scandinavian KIRKOGRIM where a similar practice was
current.
The dog was often seen as conveying the soul to the OTHERWORLD and
hounds accompanied messenger gods and psychopomps such as Hermes and
Mercury. In Greek myth Cerberus the THREE-headed dog guarded the
entrance to the Underworld. The dog also was connected to the chthonic
goddess Hecate. The Greek god of healing Asculapius is usually pictured
with a dog companion. He bears in his hand a staff with two twining
SNAKES symbolising resurrection from the UNDERWORLD. The jackal headed
Egyptian god Anubis is usually pictured as accompanying Thoth, god of
secret knowledge, and a dog accompanies the Phoenician hero Malkarth. It
is a symbol of the Underworld, its guardian; it guards the secret
knowledge of death and resurrection. The Welsh god of the Underworld had
a pack of dogs with white bodies and red ears called the CWN ANNWN, or
hellhounds. In Norse myth the dog Garm guarded the road to the
Underworld. In some legends of the Underworld the entrance is through
water and in folktales ghostly dogs lead travellers into pools and drown
them. The Celtic sea god MANANNAN had such a pack. According to the
Mabinogion two greyhounds were presented to Arawn, Lord of the
Underworld. It is likely that the Celts ate dog meat as part of some
underworld ritual.[7]
DOG OF BOULEY or Le Tchan de Bouole is a Jersey phantom hound or BLACK DOG, which appears when storms are brewing.
DRAGONS appear all over the world. They are associated with the
elements, the seasons, the weather, and various natural forces. In the
Balkans, dragons are associated with WEATHER FAIRIES and demons of the
storm. In Celtic myth, dragons are creatures of the OTHERWORLD. For the
ancient Chinese the dragon represented the energy of the earth,
stretching across countries in dragon lines. Some equate these with LEY
LINES, since straight lines often link places with names relating to the
dragon or worm, such as Dragon Hill, or with names dedicated to dragon
slaying saints, such as St. George or St. Michael. These places are
associated with fairies. Like fairies, dragons often guard a TREASURE in
a deep CAVE.
DRAKES or Grak or Krat or Drachen are English, German and Scandinavian
fire fairies who are said to smell like rotten eggs, and their presence
is usually only betrayed by the stench, though they are sometimes
glimpsed as a flaming ball. They only take on the character of fire when
they fly, when they look like streaks of flame or fiery balls with long
tails. Otherwise they look like small boys with RED CAPS and coats.
They are HOUSE FAIRIES who move into a house and keep the firewood dry
and bring gifts of gold and grain to the master of the house. The bond
is between the male head of the house and the male drake, and is a
serious pact, often written in blood. [Originally the spirits of the
drakes were kept imprisoned in carved mandrake roots.] The drake takes
care of the house, barn and stables, making sure that the pantry and
money chest are well stocked. They can travel the world in a split
second, and bring their masters a present back from far away places. In
return, the master keeps the drake fed and treated with respect. Should
the drake be insulted the house will not be there long. If you see a
drake on its travels, take shelter, for they leave behind a poisonous
sulfurous fug. If you quickly shout "half and half" or throw a knife at
the creature, then the drake may drop some of its booty in your lap. If
two people together see a drake, they should cross their legs in
silence, take the fourth wheel off the wagon and take shelter. The drake
will then be compelled to leave them some of his haul. See also FIRE
DRAKE.
DUN COW - there are several Dun Cows in Scottish and English fairy lore,
such as the Dun Cow of McBrandy's Thicket, and the Dun Cow of Kirkham.
They are fairy COWS who are either mischievous, or which give copious
amounts of MILK. A DUN is a fairy hill.
EACH-UISGE ['Water Horse'] is a race of Scottish fairy WATER HORSES that
live in lochs and the sea. They sometimes trick people into riding
them, carry them off into the water, and devour them, except for the
livers. They may appear as human men in order to court women, but can be
recognised by the fact they have water weed in their hair.
EAGER is a fairy of the River Trent in England. Bargees used to say that
when the river was flooding, 'Eager was coming'. The name may be
derived from the Gaelic for horse each, or possibly from Aegir, the
Norse sea god.[8] The fairy may be a type of WATER HORSE.
FAET FIADA ['The Look of an Animal'] is the power of SHAPESHIFTING
bestowed upon the TUATHA DÃâ° DANAAN by the god MANANNAN after the
Milesian Celts invaded Ireland and forced them into hiding. It enables
them to assume the appearance of animals in order to avoid detection.
FAIRY ANIMALS - a number of animals are particularly associated with the
fairies. In Celtic cultures, the BUTTERFLY is an emblem of both the
human soul and the SIDHE. In Irish, British and European lore fairies
appear as cats and also keep pet cats. The tailless Manx cats from the
ISLE OF MAN were bred by the fairies. The fairy King of the Cats dwells
as an ordinary cat by day living on the Isle of Man, and travels the
country at night as a royal cat to avenge any slights given to him
during the day.
Fairies are very interested in cows. WITCHES and fairies were often
blamed for stealing MILK from cows, either by making milking motions
from a distance, or by taking the form of a hare or hedgehog to suckle
from the cow. Strange cows found on the seashore are called cro sith or
'fairy cows', because they are of no mortal breed but live under the
water on seaweed. Otherworldly cattle are common in British lore,
recognised by their red or round ears, and are generous creatures that
gave an unending supply of milk to their human owners.
The stag was one of the four sacred animals of the Celts. Red deer in
particular are associated with fairies and in Mull, they are said to be
their only cattle. Fairy women often assume the form of red deer.
Fairies dislike deer hunters and throw ELF-BOLTS at them. During the
winter, the stag herds are protected by the CAILLEACH.
Fairy dogs act as guides to the fairy realms and lead people into the
UNDERWORLD. They are usually green or white with red ears, but Black
Dogs appear in many areas of Britain as evil omens. Several legends of
Britain tell of the Wild Hunt, a pack of ghostly dogs who fly through
the night sky to pursue the souls of the damned.
A large number of fairies are associated with goats, either because they
have goats' legs, or because they shapeshift into complete goats.
English country people said that it was not possible to see a goat for
twenty-four hours continually, as at some point he must go and visit
either the fairies or his master the devil to pay homage and have his
beard combed.
Fairies love horses. When horses neigh at night, they are being ridden
hard by fairies or witches. The TUATHA DÃâ° DANAAN kept magical fairy
horses in the hollow hills. These were made of fire and flame and were
as swift as the wind. There are also many stories of water horses called
each sith, 'the unearthly horse' or 'fairy horse'.
According to Welsh lore pigs originated in fairyland and the first seen
by humans were a gift to Pryderi from the King of the UNDERWORLD. The
sea god Manannan kept a magical herd of pigs in his underworld kingdom.
There are tales of fairy pigs in the Isle of Man and at Andover in
Hampshire, a spectral pig is seen on New Year's Eve.
The cuckoo is eun sith or 'fairy bird' of TIR-NAN-OG, coming from the
words of the god/fairy ANGUS OG. It goes to the mysterious realm of the
Land of the Dead in winter, entering the fairy mounds. In additions
several other birds are associated with fairies, including the OWL, the
CROW, the RAVEN, the wren, and the SWAN, while fairy WELL GUARDIANS
appear in the form of FROGS, TOADS, and salmon.
FAIRY HART or Fairy Hind - in many stories a fairy hart, usually WHITE,
appears to mark the beginning of a quest. The hart often symbolises the
pursuer's own soul, and the chase his quest for spiritual knowledge. A
hart led King ARTHUR through a CAVE to MORGAN LE FAY'S palace, where he
was shown the heavens and the earth. In another old tale from Somerset
the Lord of Kilmersdon was distressed when a plague troubled his
subjects. Riding homewards one MAY EVE he chanced to see the white fairy
hart that dwelled in the forest among the other DEER. He followed it
for a mile until it vanished. With it went all his care and dismay and
he suddenly felt a great joy. In gratitude, he built the Lady Chapel at
Kilmersdon Church.
FAIRY LAMB is a lucky fairy beast that occasionally appeared among
flocks on the ISLE OF MAN. Its fleece was partially or completely RED.
However, it had to be treated with caution. One lady saw a strange
little lamb with a red saddle and a red bridle. She reached out to touch
it but it sprang up and disappeared, which was as well, for if she had
touched it she would have developed a paralysed or withered arm.[9]
FAMILIAR - a guardian spirit which accompanies a person through life. It
may manifest as a person or an animal. During the witch trials in
Britain fairies were believed to be the familiars of WITCHES or it was
thought that they worked together. James Walsh, a Dorset witch convicted
in Exeter in 1566, admitted he learned how to bewitch people from
fairies. Some fairies are said to be personal familiars such as the
FYLGIAR, HALTIA, LEANAN SIDHE, OBERYCOM, LARS FAMILIARIS, PUCK-HAIRY,
BAJANG and BAKRU. See also CO-WALKER.
FAULA or Fauna is the Roman spirit of the wildwood, the female counterpart of FAUNUS.
FAUN pl. Fauni are the gentler classical Roman equivalent of SATYRS,
Fauns are mischievous woodland fairies with the heads and torsos of
handsome young men, the legs of GOATS [or some say DEER] and small horns
on their foreheads. They may be seen dancing with NYMPHS in woodland
glades, playing a type of flute called a shawn. Fauns are the companions
of the god of nature FAUNUS and are the guardians of the fields and
forests. The Italian fairies the FOLETTI are said to be descended from
fauns. Compare with PUCK, ROBIN GOODFELLOW, PAN, SATYRS.
FAUNAE or Fatuae are the female FAUNI. The mating of a male and female faun produces an INCUBUS.
FAUNUS is the Roman nature spirit and patron of the fields and
shepherds. He prophesies through the whispering of the wind in the
trees. He is the leader of the FAUNI, and may be compared with the Greek
PAN. Like many nature spirits he is half man, half GOAT in appearance.
His female counterpart is called Fauna or Faula. Some say that there was
originally a race of fauns who coalesced into one being called Faunus,
others that the god came first and was multiplied into a race of fauns.
Compare with PUCK, ROBIN GOODFELLOW, PAN and SATYRS.
FIERY DRAKE is a ball of flame that leads Peak District miners to the richest ores. See also DRAKES, FIREDRAKE.
FIRE DRAKES are DRAGON-like creatures with sinuous necks, bat wings, and
massive jaws in Celtic and Germanic lore. They cannot see well but have
a good sense of smell. They are cunning and malicious, breathe fire
from their mouths and guard TREASURE.
FROGS are featured in many folk and fairy tales. Sometimes a human being
is turned into a frog for offending a fairy or WITCH, or sometimes
fairies themselves appear as frogs or TOADS. The frog was a sacred
creature for the Celts who associated it with healing. There is an
ancient healing spring at Acton Barnett, in Shropshire , where the
guardian fairies of the well appear as frogs. The largest of the THREE
is addressed as the Dark God.
FROG STONES are yellowish stones have the shape of a frog and are said
to be lucky. They are fairy gifts reputedly found near large ponds and
lakes.
FUWCH GYFEILIORN was a fairy COW belonging to a band of fairies from the
region of Llyn Barfog, a lake near Aberdovey in Wales. At dusk the
fairies appear, clad all in GREEN, accompanied by their milk white
hounds and milk WHITE cattle.
Once a farmer caught one of these cows and his fortune was made: it
produced such butter, milk and cheese as was never seen. He called the
cow Fuwch Gyfeiliorn and its fame spread. The farmer became rich beyond
his dreams until one day he stupidly got it into his head that the fairy
cow was getting old and he ought to fatten her for slaughter. They
fatal day arrived and despite the pleading eyes of the cow the butcher
raised his arm and struck her a dreadful blow. Suddenly there was an
almighty shriek and the bludgeon went right through the head of the cow
and felled NINE men standing close by. To everyone's astonishment a
GREEN LADY arose from the lake and softly called to the cow. Together
they disappeared back beneath the waters, never to be seen again.[10]
GABRIEL'S HOUNDS or Gabriel Hounds or Gabriel Ratchets or Gabble
Retchets or Ratchets are a version of the WILD HUNT found in Northern
England, primarily in Durham and Yorkshire. Their leader is Gabriel, who
is cursed to lead the hounds until doomsday as punishment for hunting
on the Sabbath day. The hounds fly through the air to chase the damned,
baying all the while. Some say that they are the souls of UNBAPTISED
CHILDREN. To hear them is an OMEN OF DEATH.
GALLEY TROT is a BLACK DOG that haunts the headland north of Dunwich in
Suffolk, England. He is also known in the North Country and some
describe him as a white dog the size of a bullock that pursues anyone
who flees from him.[11]
GANDREID is the Norwegian WILD HUNT.
GENIUS, pl. GENII is a spirit which rules over a person, place or
nation. Originally, the genius was a sort of male Roman HOUSE FAIRY who
protected the household and the fertility of the family in it. In this
he was helped by his female counterpart the Iuno or Juno. Its Greek
equivalent was the DÃâ MON and Christian counterpart the guardian angel.
Later the genius came to represent the personification of an
individual's personality, or the spirit of a place or group of people
such as a nation. These latter genii were depicted as SNAKES. The word
genius is often used to denote the spirit of the forest, who exists in
various forms worldwide. His voice is heard in the breeze or in the
rustle of leaves. In some European countries, he is depicted carrying an
uprooted pine tree.
GLAS GHAIBHNEACH ['The Grey Cow with White Loins'] was a fairy COW that
belonged to an Irish master SMITH. She gave inexhaustible supplies of
MILK, which fed everyone around. However, she objected to having her
generosity abused and when a woman milked her to have extra to sell she
took herself off across the sea to Scotland.
GLASHTIN or GLASTYN are Manx WATER HORSES; they look like ordinary
horses except their hooves are back to front, or some say they are WATER
BULLs, half horse and half bull. They can SHAPESHIFT and appear in
human form, when they are very attractive to human females. A special
ARROW is needed to overcome a glashtin called a baodhag ['fury of the
quiver'].
GOATS are associated with fairies, especially in connection with
fertility or corn. Goats were sacred to various Celtic deities and to
fairies like Bucca and Puck. Some fairies shapeshift into goats, while
others have goat's hooves, horns or legs. These include Fauns,
Brollachans, Catez, Robin Goodfellow, Sileni, many VEGETATION SPIRITS,
Bockmann, Dialen, Glaistig, Goat Heads, Gryphons, Haferbock, Goatman,
Gwyllion, Hibla-Bashi, Kirin, Ki-Lin, Nereids, Silvani, Silvanus, Urisk,
Kornböcke, Leshie, Purzinigele, Phooka, Pilosi, and Puck. Russian
wood fairies are said to appear as part human but have the ears, horns
and legs of goats
Fairies have a particular love of goats. They visit goats to comb their
beards every FRIDAY [or perhaps Wednesday], their Sabbath day. English
country folk said that it was not possible to see a goat for twenty-four
hours continuously as, at some point, he must go and visit either the
fairies or the DEVIL to have his beard combed.
For the ancient Greeks and Romans, the goat represented virility: goats
are fertile and reputedly lusty. PAN, the Greek god of the wild, was the
son of Amalthea ['goat']. Both he and his SATYRS had the legs, horns
and beards of goats.
GOAT HEADS are evil Irish fairies associated with LEPRECHAUNS and FORMORIANS.
GOATMAN is a creature that appears in the folklore of Virginia [USA]. It
has the upper parts of a human, and the lower parts of a GOAT. In this
respect it resembles NATURE FAIRIES and spirits.
GRAK see DRAKES.
GRAMPUS is a dolphin-like fairy creature that lives in the sea. However,
a certain land-bound one dwelt in a yew tree by Highclere Church in
Hampshire, England and chased the villagers until it was banished to the
Red Sea.
GRANT - there are several grants, each of which adopts an English
village. A grant appears as a small, strange HORSE, walking erect. He
warns when there is trouble approaching by walking through the village
at sunset, setting the dogs to barking and the horses to whinnying.
During World War II, several villages claimed that their grant had
warned them of approaching air raids. However, Gervase of Tilbury [1211]
described the grant as a DEMON, and said that its appearance was an
OMEN OF DEATH.
GRENDEL is a legendary creature who appears in the famous eighth century
Old English poem Beowulf. He was man shaped, had the strength of thirty
men and lived in a watery lair with his mother. He regularly raided the
hall of the Danish king until killed by the hero Beowulf. He was
possibly a TROLL, OGRE or a GIANT, though some think he may have been a
DRAUGAR. See also BLACK SHUCK.
GURT DOG is a Somerset BLACK DOG.
GWYLLGI, HOUND OF DARKNESS is a phantom Black Dog that haunts
Pant-y-Madog in Pembrokeshire. It has blazing red eyes and baleful
breath; it runs from the castle to the town.
GYTRASH or Guytrash are evil northern English fairies that appear at
night as large HORSES, donkeys or shaggy BLACK DOGS with webbed feet,
lurking silently by the side of the road to waylay travellers. A gytrash
has drooping saucer-shaped eyes and walks with a splashing sound- the
trash-trash- trash sound of old fashioned boots. [12] Occasionally a
friendly gytrash will help a lost person and show them the way home.
HARES are often associated with fairies and WITCHES. The hare is
connected with lusty fertility and with madness, especially during the
mating season when they may be seen boxing or leaping in the air,
allegedly resembling a coven of dancing witches. Like many animals
sacred to the older religions, the Mediaeval Christians changed the hare
into an animal of ill omen, saying that witches and fairies shapeshift
into hare forms to suck cows dry. There are many stories of wounds
inflicted on hares being found the next day on women.
Hares were sacred to the ancient Celts who associated them with MOON and
hunting deities. Killing and eating the hare was taboo, but this
restriction was lifted at BELTANE, when a ritual hunt and consumption
was made. Folk survivals of this observance still persist. Until the end
of the 18th century a hare hunt took place in the Dane Hills, near
Leicester led by the mayor and corporation. This hare was associated
with Black Annis, a fearful HAG fairy said to live in a CAVE in the
hills known as Black Annis's Bower, which she had gouged out of the
hillside with her own claws.
In Europe, the hare is also associated with the corn spirit. Hares hide
in cornfields until the last reaping, the last sheaf is often called
'the hare', and its cutting called 'killing the hare', 'cutting the
hare' or 'cutting the hare's tail off'.
HAUSBÃâ"CKE ['House Goats'] are German HOUSE FAIRIES that have something
of the GOAT about them, like their field dwelling cousins the
KORNBÃâ"CKE, or 'Corn Goats'.
HIPPOCENTAUR is a type of CENTAUR, half man, half horse.
HORSES are of great interest to the fairies. They take great delight in
horsemanship and are excellent riders. They sometimes entice young human
men to ride out with them, and will dash along like the wind.
Afterwards, those young men are the most fearless riders in the country
and people know that they have hunted with the fairies. When horses
neigh at night, they are being ridden hard by fairies or WITCHES.
The horses of the TUATHA DÃâ° DANAAN are stabled in the Hollow Hills.
They are made of fire and flame and are as swift as the wind. They are
shod with silver and have golden bridles. A cavalcade of SIDHE knights
has SEVEN score steeds, each with a star-like jewel on its forehead, and
seven score horsemen, all king's sons, clad in GREEN mantles fringed
with gold, wearing golden helmets and carrying golden spears.[13] These
fairy horses live for one hundred years. However, it is possible that
they have died out completely, as there is a legend that the last of
them was owned by a lord of Connaught, and was sold at his death.
Refusing to be mounted by its base born buyer, it threw him to the
ground and bolted, never to be seen again.
Some fairies occasionally turn themselves into horses, including Lazy
Lawrence, Lutin, Phooka, Puck, Robin Goodfellow, Adh Sidhe, Boggart,
Boobrie, Brags, and Gytrash. Other fairies appear exclusively in horse
form, such as Knops, Linchetti, Painajainen, Pickatree-Brag, Tatterfoal,
Cheval Bayard, Cobs, Dunnie, and the Grant. Some of these are known to
bring Nightmares. There are many stories of fairy WATER HORSES that live
beneath lakes or under the sea. These include the Kelpie, Muirdris,
Näkh, Neagle, Neugle, Nickur, Noggles, Nuckalavee, Shopiltees, Tangie,
Wihwin, Aughisky, Cabbyl Ushty, Each-Uisge, and the Glashtin. See also
SHAMAN.
HORSESHOE - hung over the house or stable door, a horseshoe will keep
evil fairies and other spirits out; it is usual to hang the horseshoe
points up to keep the luck in, though in Dorset it is traditional to
hang it the other way. See also IRON.
HYTER SPRITES are East Anglian SHAPESHIFTING fairies. They appear as
various birds, including green-eyed sand martins and carrion birds. They
usually try to avoid humans, but have been known to band together to
mob individuals to scare them or admonish irresponsible parents who
neglect their children. They sometimes return lost children.
ICHTHYOCENTAUR is a type of CENTAUR that is half man and half fish.
IELES ['They'] or DINSELE ['They Themselves'] are strange VAMPIRE
fairies who come from Rumania and look like large CATS that walk on two
legs. They lie at CROSSROADS awaiting human victims to suck their blood,
but they cannot go into the middle of the crossroads. If a human steps
into their circle they will steal a piece of his leg bone and replace it
with a wooden wheel spoke. However, if the man returns to the same
place one year later, they will restore the bone.
Sometimes they are seen with a plough and are connected with fertility,
dancing in the garden on the green grass, or feasting in the cornfields.
Sometimes they appear in carts and are able to travel the whole world
in a single night, sailing over the nine seas and through the nine
countries.
Once a year they revisit the spot they visited the year before, dancing
in the same ring they danced in the previous year. They may force humans
to join them in their DANCE, and a piper who does so will become a
master of his instrument, or they may enchant a musician, carrying him
away with the power of their music while he is sleeping. In return for
the gift of song, he will have to give them part of his body, usually
his little finger.
If you want to please the fairy, leave an offering near his spring
consisting of WHITE foods such as MILK, eggs, cheese, or a white hen,
laid on a clean, white cloth. This should be offered to all passers by.
If someone is ill, a similar offering should be made at his house by
NINE women, walking nine times round the house and casting a spell nine
times over the sick person. The colour of the sacrificial foods suggests
an offering to the DEAD, or perhaps an offering to upperworld powers in
contrasts to the all black sacrifices to Hecate and the powers of the
UNDERWORLD.
JEZE or Jezenky or Jezinky ['Lamias'] are unpleasant ancient Western
Slavonic spirits that have the faces of women, the bodies of PIGS and
the legs of horses. They live in CAVES and KIDNAP children, feeding them
on dainty morsels. They lull people to sleep and put out their eyes.
KAPPA are strange Japanese WATER FAIRIES which have webbed and clawed
hands, trunk-like noses, GREEN skin, round eyes and tortoiseshells on
their backs. On the tops of their heads are small depressions filled
with water, the source of their power. Their heads must always be wet
and they cannot survive out of water for very long. They travel around
on cucumbers. Despite their ludicrous appearance, they are highly
dangerous, lurking at the edge of water to lure in humans and animals to
eat. To escape, you should trick the kappa into spilling the water from
its head, or toss it a cucumber, which it loves even more than human
flesh. Sometimes kappas can be helpful, and teach human beings medical
skills like bone setting.
KELPIES s.KELPIE are Scottish WATER FAIRIES who appear as grey horses
that encourage people to ride them. Once a person is astride, the Kelpie
will run off into the water, drown its passenger and devour him,
leaving only the entrails on the shore. They are known to eat animals,
humans and other fairies that venture too close to their lairs. To see a
kelpie is an OMEN OF DEATH or great misfortune.
If you want to catch one and make it work for you, have the sign of the
CROSS made on a bridle and slip it over the kelpie's head; it will then
serve you and do your bidding.
Kelpies sometimes appear as men to seduce young women, but their HAIR
always looks like seaweed or watercress. A handsome young man courted
one young girl, but when she discovered the seaweed and shells in his
hair she realized he was a kelpie. He instantly turned into a horse to
chase her in order to kill and eat her and would have done so if she had
not been saved by a fairy bull.[14] One kelpie also appeared as an old
woman and was put to bed by a bevy of girls. During the night, he sucked
the blood of all but one, who escaped over running water. In this
respect, the Kelpie is a VAMPIRE.
A kelpie lives at Loch Coruisk on Skye, while another at Corgarff in
Aberdeen tricked a man who was trying to cross the swollen River Don.
The beast offered to take him across, but halfway, it submerged itself,
dragging the man with him. However, the man managed to escape and the
kelpie threw a boulder after him, which can still be seen and is known
as 'The Kelpie's Stone'.
KI-LIN ['Male-Female' ] is the Chinese version of the UNICORN. It has
one horn, but is a GOAT-like creature, rather than a HORSE. The legend
originates in Tibet, where the beast is depicted in the ancient temples.
The circle containing the body of the Lama was drawn with a ki-lin
horn. From Tibet, the legend was introduced into China. The creature is
so gentle it will not even step on a blade of grass for fear of damaging
it. The backward sweeping horn is tipped with flesh, indicating that it
is not for violent purposes. The name 'Male-Female' indicates that it
is a symbol of the harmony of opposites, like the yin-yang symbol- a
male horn on a female body. The creature appears to signal the birth of a
very holy person, or to herald the reign of a great ruler. One appeared
at the birth and death of Confucius. See also KIRIN.
KING OF THE CATS is often referred to in Celtic lore. He dwells as an
ordinary CAT by day and travels the country at night as a royal fairy
cat to avenge any slights given to him during the day. A young Scottish
man had dealings with the King of the Cats. He had been walking home
across the mountains when a mist descended and he could not find his
way. A strange light had appeared and he had followed it until it came
to rest beside a large OAK tree. As he looked into its hollow trunk, it
seemed that he gazed into a church where a funeral was taking place.
Later, as he related his adventures to his friends, the cat that sat on
the hearth seemed to be paying great attention. When the young man
recounted that the coffin and torches had been borne by cats, and that a
sceptre and crown lay on the coffin the cat sat up and exclaimed "By
Jove! Old Peter's dead and I'm the King of the Cats". He rushed up the
chimney and was seen no more.
KIRIN is a similar creature to the UNICORN. It appears in Japan as a
GOAT-like beast with cloven hooves, a single horn and a beard. It is a
gentle fairy that brings good luck.
KNOPS are Warwickshire HOBGOBLINS and much feared. They were
originally demon HORSES and may be the origin of the 2nd November [All
Souls] custom of going out with a mock horse head covered in a sheet to
frighten the timid.
KOPUWAI ['Water Stomach'] was a man-eating OGRE of Moari lore. It had a
dog's head and hunted his prey with a pack of two-headed DOGS. He was
known to drink vast quantities of water. The Maoris eventually trapped
him in his CAVE and smoked him out of a hole in the roof. When he tried
to make his escape, they battered him to death.
KORNBÃâ"CKE ['Corn-Goat' ] is a German fairy who guards the grain and
causes it to ripen, riding on the breezes which ripple the cornfields.
Like other GOAT spirits, he is associated with corn and fertility. When
the grain is harvested he retreats into the last sheaf, and when it is
cut he dies or, if it is left, he hibernates within it until spring. He
sometimes found in amongst the stalks in the guise of a cornflower or
appears as an ill-tempered goat, though he can appear as a bird, CAT,
wolf or insect. He was originally a vegetation god.
KRAKEN is a sea creature big enough to swallow a whole boat. It is
round, flat and submerges itself to create a whirlpool. The Vikings had
many tales of Krakens, and one entered Scalloway Bay in Shetland in the
nineteenth century.
KUL-JUNGK is an evil Eskimo fish spirit that lives in deep water and has
a human shape. In past times when the ice broke in spring BIRCH fish
images were taken to the fishing place and left as offerings to him.
KULSHEDRA is a creature of Albanian lore. Every year a DRAGON-like
creature called a Bolla wakes up every St George's Day [23rd April].
After twelve years it transforms into a huge HAG called Kulshedra with
pendulous breasts and a hairy body.
LAMAS are spirits of ancient Chaldea who took an interest in the welfare
of humans. They appeared as female hybrid creatures with wings.
LAMIA pl. LAMIÃâ are fairies who appear as beautiful women or SNAKES, or
perhaps a combination of the two. The original Lamia was a lover of the
god Zeus and bore him two children, but the god's jealous wife Hera
stole the children. In revenge, Lamia vowed to steal any human children
that she came across and her bitterness caused her to turn into a
flesh-devouring monster. The term lamia generally came to mean a
seductive supernatural female, such as a SUCCUBUS, VAMPIRE or LEANNAN
SIDHE who sucks the life force from a human partner, or be used as a
poetical allegory for beautiful harlots who destroy their lovers.
Sometimes WITCHES are referred to as lamiæ. They were a type of noon
demon [like the Balkan POLUDNICA], as noon was seen as a time for ghosts
in the Mediterranean.
One early Greek tale relates how a young man called Lycius fell in love
with an exquisite woman and married her. At the wedding feast, she
trembled under the gaze of a philosopher who had guessed what she was.
She hissed, turned into a serpent and disappeared. Lycius died of a
broken heart
LAZY LAWRENCE is a Somerset and Hampshire fairy is associated with
HORSES and sometimes takes the form of a pony himself. He guards
orchards and gives cramps to APPLE scrumpers.
LISUNKA ['Fox' or perhaps 'Sly Spirit'] is a female LESHY or forest fairy of Russia.
MANITOU are fairies and also the spirit that is contained within
manifest Nature, according to Native Americans of the Algonquin group:
everything contains spirit or manitou. People have guardian manitous,
which may manifest in dreams in the forms of animals. Sometimes manitous
are described as fairies that live in tribes and have small horns or
antlers on their heads. They play tricks on humans and possess strong
magical powers. Compare with PUCK.
MAUTHE DOOG is a local name for the Manx MODDEY DHOO, a BLACK DOG.
MODDEY DHOO ['Black Dog'] was an Isle of Man BLACK DOG that roamed Peel
Castle. Every night it warmed itself before the guard room fire, and at
first the soldiers were afraid, but eventually they got used to it.
Then one night, during the reign of Charles II, a drunken soldier
boasted that he would patrol the castle alone, and dared the dog to
accompany him on his rounds- he would find out whether it was a real
animal or a demon. The ghastly dog arose from his place by the fire and
followed the man. Fearful cries and screams issued from the corridor,
but not a man dared venture from the room. The foolish soldier returned
white and gibbering. He died three days later, never speaking of what he
had seen. The black dog has not been seen since, but some say it still
haunts the castle, unseen.[15]
MURYANS or Meryons [from the Cornish murrian meaning 'ant'] are tiny
Cornish fairies. Some believe that fairies end their days as ants since
every SHAPESHIFTING operation reduces them in size. Those who take the
forms of animals grow smaller and smaller with every change until they
are lost in the earth, as ants. [16] Some say they are the spirits of
DEAD druids. In Cornwall, it is thought to be very unlucky to kill ants,
as they might be the final forms of tiny fairies. If you place a piece
of tin in a bank of ants at the waxing of the MOON it will be turned to
silver.[17]
NEAGLE or Noggle or Nuggle or Nyaggle is a Shetland WATER HORSE.
NEMAIN ['Frenzy'] or Neman or Neamhan or Nemainn is one of the THREE
aspects of the MORRIGAN, she is the 'counfounder of enemies' and causes
members of the same band to fight each other in mistake for the
enemy.[18] She appears in the shape of a CROW.
NENNIR is a WATER HORSE.
NESSIE is a famous monster of Loch Ness and is only one of many fairy
SNAKES, monsters, WATER HORSES or WATER BULLS said to inhabit the lochs
and waterways of Scotland. The first recorded sighting of Nessie was by
St Columba fourteen centuries ago. He told one of his monks to swim
across the loch to fetch a boat. When the poor man was half way across,
the monster appeared and was about to attack the swimmer when the saint
commanded it to go back and leave the man alone. The monster had no
power to resist the saint, and disappeared beneath the water. From that
day to this, Nessie has never harmed any one. She is described as having
two humps, flippers, a sinuous neck and small head. See also WATER
FAIRIES, KELPIES, NEUGLE, and WATER HORSES.
NEUGLE lives in Njugals Water in Shetland. He is a WATER HORSE akin to a
KELPIE. Anyone foolish enough to mount the horse will be carried
beneath the water never to be seen again.
ODMIENCE ['Changed One'] is a Polish fairy CHANGELING.
OWLS are associated with fairies such as GWYN AP NUDD, the Lord of
Death, HAGS and the WILD HUNTSMAN. Like most night flying birds, the owl
is a bad omen in many parts of the world, a herald of death. The owl
was associated with Adam's first wife, LILLITH. She fell from grace to
become one of the four wives of Satan. From this association with
Lillith the name of the screech owl, strix, came to mean a VAMPIRE.
The owl may have been associated with the Greek SIRENS, winged sisters
who sang to lure sailors to their deaths. There were THREE of them [or
possibly NINE in earlier myths] and had titles like 'Persuader', 'Bright
Face', 'Bewticher', 'Virgin Face', 'Shrill Voice', and 'The Whitened
One', which might be descriptions of owls.
Owls are very vocal in November [the death time of the year] and then
fall silent until February. As such they are the servants of the crone
goddess, and in Scotland the owl is known as Cailleach which means 'HAG'
and is the Cailleach Oidhche ['the Hag of the Night'] and Cailleach
Oidhche Gheal ['Hag of the Night Moon'] and is linked to the CAILLEACH
BHEUR, the blue faced hag of winter and death. It is also the death
bird, ' the Bird of the Corpse'. One tale says that the owl is the
servant of one of the ten UNDERWORLD kings. In most of Europe owls were
associated with WITCHES, who were thought to be able to turn themselves
into them. The SKOGSRÃ⦠appear as owls.
PADFOOT is a fairy BLACK DOG that haunts the north of England. He has
fiery eyes and drags a chain behind him. His name comes from the padding
sound of his feet. Occasionally he appears as a white dog. His
appearance is an OMEN OF DEATH or ill fortune.
PAN is most powerful nature spirit of all, the Greek god of the wild,
son of the god Hermes by a NYMPH of Arcadia. The ancient writer Servius
described him as being "Formed in the likeness of nature with horns to
resemble the rays of the sun and the horns of the moon; his face is
ruddy in the imitation of ether; he wears a spotted fawn skin resembling
the stars in the sky; his lower limbs are hairy because of the trees
and wild beasts; he has the feet of a GOAT to resemble the stability of
the earth; his pipe has seven reeds in accordance with the harmony of
heaven; his pastoral staff bears a crook in reference to the year which
curves back on itself, and finally, he is the god of all Nature." He
roams the mountains, pursuing game in the valleys, playing his pipe in
the groves and travellers in the woods often hear his music. His call is
said to give rise to 'panic', an overwhelming fear in all that hear it.
There are a variety of nature and woodland fairies who have a similar
appearance to Pan, for example, ROBIN GOODFELLOW, PUCK, SATYRS and
FAUNS.
PANS or PANES are a race of male nature fairies with GOAT attributes. They may have been the precursors of PAN.
PAVARÃâ is an Italian fairy with a DOG's head, long arms and IRON teeth
and nails. He protects bean fields by slashing the legs of anyone who
damages the crops. His arms are so long that he can reap several acres
at once.
PAYSHTHA or Pastha or Piast-Bestia is an Irish water DRAGON who guards hidden TREASURE.
PEALLAIDH ['The Shaggy One'] is a Perthshire URISK.
PETITCRIEU was a fairy DOG given to Tristan by Duke Gilan. It came from
AVALON and was a tiny, wondrously coloured beast with a tinkling bell
around its neck.
PHOOKA or Phouka or Pooka or Púca is an Irish goblin who can appear as a
GOAT, a HORSE, a DOG, a bull or an eagle. He is always black with
blazing eyes and usually has something of the goat about him. His name
may be derived from poc, which means 'he-goat'. [19] The term pooka
appears in Middle English and stands for the devil. He may take the form
of a shaggy colt with chains, a goat, ass, dog, eagle, bull and even,
like the Kilkenny Phooka, a fleece of wool that rolls around the fields
near the Dun of Coch-na-Phuca, making a buzzing noise to frighten the
cattle. The term phooka is often used to refer to the DEVIL and 'playing
the phooka' means playing the devil [20] i.e. being wicked. The Irish
call HALLOWEEN 'Phooka Night'. After this time the Phooka blights any
crops remaining in the fields and makes the BLACKBERRIES unfit to eat
,[21] a service performed by the devil in France.
The Brothers Grimm thought that the Phooka was comparable with the
German MAHR in that it sits among the REEDS and ALDER bushes and leaps
onto the back of a passing traveller and rides them until they are
exhausted. The Phooka especially delights in haunting the dreams of
drunkards. Phookas are horse dealers, and one might appear as a swarthy
man mounted on a good horse, or might visit a racecourse in an invisible
form.
In horse form the Phooka offers rides to weary travellers, then takes
off at a mad pace, before dumping them in a ditch and galloping away
laughing. When he is not bruising and battering travellers with wild
rides, the Phooka can be friendly and if he is well treated he will help
farmers and millers. One day Phadrig fell asleep in an old mill, and
when he woke he was astounded to witness six little fairies and an old
man in tattered clothing who directed them to mill the corn. He felt
sorry for the old Phooka in his tattered clothes, so one day he bought a
fine silk suit and laid it out on the floor of the mill. The delighted
Phooka put it on and declared that he was now a fine gentleman and would
grind the corn no more. [22] See also PUCK
PHOOKA NIGHT is an Irish name for HALLOWEEN. See also PHOOKA.
PHOOKA SPIT is an Irish term for a snail. See also PHOOKA.
PIGS are a matter of great interest to fairies and a number of fairy
pigs also appear in various locales. There are tales of fairy pigs in
the ISLE OF MAN. At Andover in Hampshire, a fairy pig is seen on New
Year's Eve. Pigs are allied to gods and goddesses of the UNDERWORLD,
which may account for their association with fairies, also associated
with the DEAD and underworld realms. In Celtic lore pigs are mystical
creatures, originating with the spirits in the OTHERWORLD. Their flesh
was associated with feasts of the dead and was otherwise taboo. In
Celtic myth, swineherds were honoured as magicians and prophets.
PIGHT is another term for PUCK.
PISGIES are the small, white moths that flit about in the evening in
Cornwall, thought to be the souls of DEAD children. See also PIXIES and
BUTTERFLY.
RAVEN [Corvus corax] - is considered to be a mysterious bird,
associated with spirits, gods and fairies., though in early stories the
raven is interchangeable with other members of the crow family. Ravens
are carrion birds and were once a common sight, feeding on the corpses
of the slain after a battle. This made them symbols of death and war;
associated battle deities such as MACHA ['Raven'], MORRIGAN, BABD and
Nemain who could all take raven form. The Morrigan would become a raven
on the battlefield and foretell the outcome of the conflict to the
Dagda. Some say that her later Arthurian counterpart was MORGAN LE FAY
who also appeared as a raven. In many places in Britain, ARTHUR is
thought to have become a raven after death, and countrymen tip their
hats to ravens in consequence. To kill one was a crime, and insulted
Arthur.
Ravens are guardians of the UNDERWORLD fairy treasure. A fierce raven is
said to guard the gold in the Chaw ['Raven'] Gully mine in Cornwall. A
stone obtained from raven's nests called is 'the raven stone' or 'stone
of victory' and it helps to discover fairy TREASURE and aid in PROPHECY
ROANE ['Seal'] is an Irish or Scottish island race of fairy seal people,
similar to the SELKIES. They are gentle, shy and retiring, desiring
only to be left in peace. The females sometimes swim ashore and cast off
their sealskins to dance in the moonlight as human maidens. If a
fisherman can steal a roane's skin he can force her to become his wife
for as long as he can keep the seal skin hidden. As soon as she finds it
she will don it and return to the sea.
SALAMANDERS are ELEMENTAL fairies of the fire, according to the
alchemist Paracelsus [1493-1541]. They are usually portrayed as the
newts of the same name.
SALBANELLI s. Salbanello are the fairy children of a SALVANELLO and a WITCH in Italian fairy lore.
SALEERANDEES are Welsh fairies, scaled beings that resemble lizards
walking on two legs. They are cold blooded and seek out human's fires.
Though their appearance is frightening, they are not harmful. The name
may be a corruption of 'SALAMANDER' .
SÃâNTOADERI are Rumanian fairies who appear as horses or centaurs, or
perhaps a human who has something of the horse about him, such as horse
shoes or a tail. They appear in groups of SEVEN, NINE or twelve,
visiting villages and rattling chains and beating drums. They appear
during Lent with the DEAD. If people venture out of their houses at
night, these creatures will ride them like beasts or trample them
underfoot. They break into houses to dance on human bodies or bring
illness with them. However, they only punish those who break their
taboos by SPINNING and weaving during the duration of their visit to
earth.They carry away human souls.
Their patron is St Theodore. Women perform rites three weeks after
Easter on Todorusale Day. The ceremonies are devoted to the fairies to
ensure healing and fertility. On this day, the Sântoaderi dance with
the IELE. They [or St Theodore] bring in the summer. [23] In Rumanian
lore St Theodore, with twelve horses, six black and six white- the six
months of winter and six of summer- chases the sun, which at the
beginning of spring deviates and moves northwards. The six white horses
defeat the six black ones [the six light months of summer versus the six
dark months of winter].
SASQUATCH ['Hairy Man'] or BIGFOOT has been seen many times in North
America, the first recorded sighting being in 1811. It is described as
being between seven and eleven feet tall, covered in thick fur or hair,
with long arms, and a flat nose. Several expeditions have set out to
find Bigfoot, but all have failed and those photographs and films that
exist purporting to depict the creature are contentious. Some think
Bigfoots belong to a natural but unknown species, while others believe
them to be spirits. Descriptions of their appearance tallies with that
of a large number of [mainly] forest fairies around the world, including
the Schrat, Trolls, Urisk, Ved, Wood Wose, Boggarts, Brollachan,
Callicantzaros, Fuath, Gruagach, Hobgoblin, Illes, Korreds, Maero,
Ogres, Phynnodderr, and Pilosi.
SATYRS are the companions of the Greek gods Dionysus and PAN. They are
NATURE SPIRITS of the fields and woods. They are covered with bristly
hair, have GOAT legs and feet and small horns on their foreheads,
extremely large genitals, flat noses and pointed ears. Stories associate
them with sexual license and they appear incessantly chasing various
NYMPHS. They came to represent debauchery.
SELKIE pl. Selkies or Silkies or Selchi ['Seals'] are Orkney and
Shetland fairies that take the form of seals in the sea, but when they
come ashore they shed their seal skins and assume human form. Some say
they are bewitched humans who can come ashore on MIDSUMMER Eve, cast off
their seal skins, and resume their true shape. Others say that they are
fairies and can only take a human shape at certain times, perhaps only
every Johnsmas Eve [Midsummer Eve], though others that it is every ninth
night.
Once ashore and in human form, the selkie-folk will dance on the
seashore and if they are disturbed they will grab their skins and run
back to the sea. If a man can steal and hide the shed skin he can force a
selkie maid to marry him, though if she ever finds her skin she will
put it on and be off back to the sea. The man will pine away and die of a
broken heart. Though the female selkies sometimes marry humans, they
can never settle: their dual nature means that they are not truly happy
either in the sea or on the land.
Descendants of such unions have webbed fingers and toes or a horny
substance on their palms and soles. The Mac Codrum clan from North Uist
claim descent from selkies; they are known as Sliochd nan Ron, the
Offspring of Seals. A distant ancestor stole the skin of a seal maiden
as she danced and kept it hidden for many years, during which time she
bore him many children.
The male selkies also come ashore to make love to human women, to whom
they appear very seductive. Island men who do not keep their wives
satisfied risk their wives taking selkie lovers. If a human woman wants
to attract a male selkie for a lover, she should go to the sea and drop
SEVEN tears in it at high tide. Generally, the male selkies have no love
for humans, causing storms and overturning the boats of seal hunters
and fishermen.
According to Orkney lore selkies are FALLEN ANGELS, thrown out of heaven
and into the sea after offending God. Others say that they are the
souls of drowned humans, allowed once a year to resume a human shape.
Tales of seal people are found all over Shetland, Orkney, the Hebrides
and Faeroe Islands. Seals are a common sight in these parts and the name
of Orkney is derived from the Norse Orkneyjar meaning 'Seal Islands'.
SHAG is a North of England BLACK DOG. It is death to touch it.
SHAGFOAL or Tatterfoal is a Lincolnshire fairy, similar to a BRASH or the HEDLEY KOW. [24]
SHAPESHIFTER/ SHAPESHIFTING - most fairies possess the power of
shapeshifting. They can alter their original forms in order to appear as
lovelier than they are, or as various animals such as COWS, DEER,
eagles, HORSES, BLACK DOGS, and CATS, though these may be the original
forms for all we know. They can also manifest as moss, trees, herbs,
columns of fire, stones, and balls of light. The Cornish believe that
each shapeshifting operation makes fairies diminish in size until they
become ants. The god MANANNAN gave the TUATHA DÃâ° DANAAN the power of
shapeshifting so that they would be able to remain hidden from the
occupying Celts.
SHONEY or Shony or Spony is a type of KELPIE that haunts the Isle of
Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. Usually thought of as male, Shoney was
once a sea god, or perhaps goddess, as his name may relate to the Norse
Sjofn, a sea goddess. The inhabitants of the Isle of Lewis made an
offering of a cup of ale to the Shoney well into the nineteenth century.
In the weeks before HALLOWEEN pocketfuls of malt were brought into the
church of St Mulray, then combined and brewed into ale. A man would wade
into the sea with a cup of this ale, and [in Gaelic] offer the Shoney
the ale in return for good catches and seaweed to enrich the soil:
"Shoney, I give you this cup of ale hoping that you will be so kind as
to give us plenty of sea-ware for enriching our ground the ensuing
year". [25] Some say that there are several Shoneys, and they are bad
tempered, stupid, squat, with pointed ears and sharp teeth.
SHOOPILTEES or Shopiltees are little WATER HORSES or ponies that play
about the Shetland and Orkney Islands, though they have not been seen in
more than a hundred years, so they may have died out. They are similar
to the KELPIE in character and live off the blood of the drowned.
SHUCK MONKEY or Shug Monkey is a BLACK DOG that haunts the area of
Balsham and Wratting in Cambridgeshire. It is unusual in that it has the
face of a monkey.
SILENI are creatures of classical Greek myth, originating in Albania.
They are similar to SATYRS. In appearance, they have horses' ears and
sometimes the legs of HORSES or GOATS too.
SNAKE- guardian spirits and WATER FAIRIES often appear in the form of
snakes, particularly the protectors of wells, springs and rivers. A well
in Pembrokeshire contains a golden torc guarded by a fairy-serpent,
which bites the hand of anyone who tries to steal it. The Maiden's Well
in Aberdeenshire is reputed to contain a winged serpent. The Creek
Native Americans believe a horned serpent will sometimes appear at a
certain well. Arabs believe that DJINNS, in the form of DRAGON or
serpent spirits, live in wells.
A snake's movements are sinuous and wave-like, like the course of a
river or stream. It was once believed that all water contained a
spirit-serpent. In Celtic lore, snakes and wells are associated with
healing. Because the snake sheds its skin each year and appears renewed,
it was seen to be immortal.
The snake was regarded as a powerful guardian spirit and was encouraged
in temples and homes - snakes were often kept as pets. There are many
tales of serpents guarding underground TREASURE under a lake, in a CAVE,
or on an island in the far west of the ocean. The snake is a link with
the UNDERWORLD from its habit of living in the earth. Snakes are often
found in graveyards and were once thought to be communicating with the
DEAD, or to be the spirits of the dead themselves.
In myth the snake or DRAGON [the two are often synonymous] is sometimes
seen as ruling the winter half of the year and the underworld. It is
defeated yearly or nightly by the god of the summer or the sun. The Sun
god Apollo slew the python at Delphi with his sun ray ARROWS, while St.
George killed the dragon. The Sun 'dies' nightly, and passes through the
Underworld realm of the serpent or dragon. In Greek myth, Ge, the earth
goddess, gives the Tree of Immortality as a wedding gift to Hera. It is
located in the HESPIRIDES, an island in the far west, and guarded by
the daughters of night and the serpent Ladon. The APPLES of the tree
represent the sun, which sets or dies nightly in the west and journeys
through the underworld, lair of the serpent or dragon, to be reborn each
dawn in the east.
SWAN MAIDENS appear in Norse, Greek, Celtic, Indian, Malaysian, and Thai
stories, from The Arabian Nights to the Welsh Mabinogion. The motif of
a fairy maid who first appears as an animal such as a seal [SELKIE],
WHITE HIND or swan is a common one. She may challenge the hero or lend
him magical aid. Sometimes swan maidens appear as guides to the DEAD,
taking them to the Far Northern OTHERWORLD, through the swan-veils. The
VALKYRIES were such swan maidens who could discard swan plumage to
become human. Any man who could steal the plumage could command them.
Some swan maidens are human women changed into immortal fairy swans,
recognisable by the golden chains around their necks.
SYLVESTRES- Paracelsus named the spirits of the air sylvestres or sylphs
from the Greek silphe meaning 'BUTTERFLY' or 'moth'. They are described
as almost transparent, very small and winged. See ELEMENTALS.
TANGIE or TANGYE [Derived from the Danish- 'Seaweed'] is an evil WATER
HORSE that haunts Shetland. It has long shaggy hair and is covered in
seaweed. Tangie can also appear as an old man. Some say that there is a
race of mischievous Tangies who tempt people to ride on their backs and
duck them under the water. See also BLACK ERIC.
TARROO-USHTEY is a fearsome WATER BULL that lives in the seas
surrounding the ISLE OF MAN, though similar animals are found all around
Britain. It sometimes leaves the sea to feed and mate with domestic
COWS. One farmer had to abandon his farm when the Tarroo-Ushtey took
against him.
TATTERFOAL is a Lincolnshire GOBLIN who appears in the form of a HORSE.
TOADS [Bufo bufo] were often the FAMILIARS or the SHAPESHIFTING forms of
evil fairies and WITCHES. Mediaeval alchemists thought the toad
represented the primal elements of nature. Its dark and damp environment
gives it lunar and UNDERWORLD associations.
Two girls saw a massive fat toad that turned out to be a fairy. One
joked that if it ever had a baby she would be its godmother, the other
quipped she would cook for the christening. A few days later an old
woman knocked at their door and invited them to the baptism of the
toad's child, reminding them of their promise. They were taken to an
isolated location where all sorts of strange looking guests had gathered
to attend the ceremony. The service proceeded and the girls filled
their parts. When they departed, they were astonished to have their
aprons filled with coal from the hearth. They hurried home, scattering
most of the coal as they went. However, when they arrived at their door
and crossed the THRESHOLD, every bit of coal that remained had turned to
gold.
UILEBHEIST are multi-headed sea monsters lurk off the coasts of the
Shetland and Orkney islands. They are sometimes called DRAYGANS, which
may be a corruption of 'DRAGON'.
UNICORN is a fairy beast or an animal that dwells in FAIRYLAND, and is
seldom seen by humans. Its food is spiritual. It generally appears as a
white horse with a single horn in the centre of its forehead, though
single horned rams, goats, bulls, wild asses, antelopes, rhinos have
been known, not to mention one horned fish and snakes.
Unicorns were mentioned by the Greek historian Ctesis of Cnidos. He said
that in India certain wild asses existed, larger than horses, with
WHITE bodies, RED heads, blue eyes, and possessing a horn upon their
foreheads about eighteen inches long. This horn was white at the base,
black in the middle and had a red tip [these are the three colours of
the moon, associated with the triple MOON Goddess - the white maiden,
red mother, and black crone]. Those who drank from the horn would be
protected from disease and poison. In ancient Persia there was a sacred
unicorn with six eyes, nine mouths and one horn, made from pure gold.
Its touch vanquished all corruption.
Our common image of a unicorn comes from the bestiaries of the Middle
Ages. In Christian lore it represented the purity of Christ, torn apart
in willing sacrifice by hunting dogs. The unicorn was too fleet of foot
to be captured by huntsmen, and could only be snared by a virgin;
attracted by her purity he will come willingly to her and lay his head
in her lap. She then breaks its horn and the hunters pounce. This seems
to be a story of betrayal, but the symbolism implies a sexual metaphor.
She carries a mirror [an ancient representation of female genitalia],
while the horn is obvious, there is a flagstaff nearby flying a flag
depicting a crescent moon, while in the foreground are rabbits, oak and
holly leaves.
The horn of the unicorn is called an alicorn, and many noblemen of the
renaissance boasted of possessing one. They were frequently displayed at
banquet as a defence against death by poisoning [a definite risk in
some circles]: the horn was said to sweat in the presence of poison.
Such horns were bought and sold for fabulous prices. The poor would beg
to be given water into which the horn had been dipped, since this would
cure all maladies. See also KIRIN and KI-LIN.
VOUIVRE is a Gascon fairy who appears as a SNAKE beside natural
fountains. It has a diamond in the middle of its forehead, which is the
source of its power. It only lets this out of its sight when it is
bathing or drinking. Should a man steal it he will gain that power,
while the fairy will fade away and die. The vouivre is sometimes a HOUSE
FAIRY.
WATER BULL - though many WATER FAIRIES favour the form of horses, some
appear as water bulls, including the TARROO-USHTEY. The water bull
sometimes comes ashore at night to mate with mortal cattle, and the
resulting offspring will be fat and sleek, and produce copious amounts
of milk. In the autumn , when the harvest is completed and the cows are
rounded up, they often run about as if mad, though no cause can be
discerned. But if you look through a HAG STONE or through the hole in an
animal skin made by an ELF BOLT, you will see they fairy bull fighting
with the strongest in the herd, but before you do this be warned: the
eye that sees this will never see again. The fairy bull is smaller than
an earthly one, mouse coloured, crop-eared, short horned, supple, and
strong in the body.
It appears on the riverbanks where he likes to eat green grass during
the hours of darkness. One farmer had a cow that, every BELTANE, left
the herd and walked along the river to a small island, which she swam
to. After a while she would return to the pasture. This happened for
several years running until she produced a calf that resembled the fairy
bull. Then one Martinmas the farmer decided to slaughter her for meat.
No sooner had he voiced his intention than she bellowed with rage,
gathered all her calves before her and drove them into the water. They
were never seen again.
In Fife, a plague of flesh eating water bulls come ashore at HALLOWEEN.
WATER HORSES - some WATER FAIRIES appear in the form of horses. These
include the Aughisky, Cabbyl Ushty, Nuegle, Decair, Each-Uisge, Noggles,
Eager, Glashtin, Kelpie, Nickur, and the Nuckelavee. These horses often
try to trick humans into mounting them, and if they are foolish enough
to do so, the water horse will carry them into deep water and drown
them. Some water horses will even eat their victims.
WELL GUARDIANS - many wells have a fairy guardian in the form of a
salmon, trout, SNAKE, FROG, TOAD or NYMPH. These fairies are particular
to the locale. Sometimes the resident fairies have to be placated with
offerings of PINS or coins. If a well guardian should seize you, you
will be dragged down into the well and be forced to dwell forever with
the fairy.
These legends may derive from the ancient belief that nymphs or
goddesses guard wells and other waterways. Such places were holy and
veneration of them still persists today. They were believed to have
healing or cursing powers, the ability to bestow luck or take it away,
and were presided over by Pagan deities, many of whom were later
transformed into Christian saints, such as Brighid, or passed into
folklore as 'WHITE LADIES' or 'GREEN LADIES'. A well near Penrhos in
Wales allegedly cured cancer. The sufferer would have to wash in the
water, curse the disease, and drop pins into the well.
In Derbyshire, wells are still dressed with pictures constructed from
flowers, seeds and crystalline rocks, which once would have been made to
placate the resident spirits. Today, the themes of the pictures are
biblical ones, and the wells re-dedicated to Christian saints, usually
called Anne [Anu], Mary, Margaret or Brigit [Brighid]. Almost every
English town has a well dedicated to some female saint that would once
have been sacred to a Pagan goddess. Fairy wells are more common in
England, Ireland, and Norway than elsewhere.
WHOOPER or Hooper or Hooter haunted Sennen Cove in Cornwall. Even when
the weather was perfectly clear a small blanket of mist would form on
Cowloe Rock from within which a SWAN would make its whooping cry by day
and emit showers of sparks by night. It foretold storms and prevented
fishermen going into the open sea when storms threatened. The creature
sadly disappeared when two insensitive men who were determined to go
fishing ignored its warning and beat their way through the misty cloud
with a flail. Neither they nor the creature were ever seen again.
WISH HOUNDS or Wist Hounds or Wisht Hounds haunt Wistman's Wood on
Dartmoor. They are a pack of phantom BLACK DOGS. They hunt human souls.
Y FUWCH FRECH is a freckled fairy COW that lived near Cerrigydrugian in
Denbigh, Wales. She supplied the whole neighbourhood with milk, filling
any vessel brought to her. Then one day a WITCH tried to milk her into a
sieve, and continued to do so until the cow went mad and drowned
herself in Llyn Dan Ychen.
YCHEN BANNOG are the Fairy COWS that were used to haul the dreaded
AFRANC from its lair in the River Conway near Betwys y Coed in Wales.
The creature was enticed from its cave by a young girl it had fallen in
love with, and though the villagers wrapped it in chains, it escaped,
clawing the girl as it did so. The two magical fairy oxen were called in
to haul it from its hiding place; they did so, but in the struggle one
of them lost its eye. It fell to the ground and became a pool called
Pwll Llygad Ych ['The Pool of the Ox's Eye'], that can still be seen.
YEFF HOUNDS or Yeth Hounds ['Heath Hounds'] is a Somerset name for the
hounds of the WILD HUNT or phantom BLACK DOGS. One pack haunts Cleeve
Hill, Somerset, England.
ZALTYS is a strange Lithuanian HOUSE FAIRY that appears as a black SNAKE
with a third eye in the middle of its forehead. It protects humans and
animals, and if one takes up residence in a property, it is an OMEN of
good fortune. Originally, Zaltys was the serpent who coiled around the
roots of the World Tree, the enemy of the thunder god Perun, and the
target for much of his lightening.
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[1] Bob Trubshaw, 'Black Dogs in Folklore', Mercian Mysteries No 20, august 1994
[2] Palmer 1976].
[3] Roy Palmer, The Folklore of Warwickshire, Batsford, 1976
[4] Rev. Edmund Jones given by Crofton Croker
[5] Adapted from Robert Hunt, Popular Romances of the West of England, Chatto and Windus, 1930
[6] Bob Trubshaw, Black Dogs, Guardians of the Corpse ways, At The Edge,
[7] Miranda Green, Animals in Celtic Life and Myth, Routledge, 1992
[8] Nigel Pennick pers comm
[9] W.W.Gill, A Manx Scrapbook, Arrowsmith, 1932
[10] Wirt Sikes, British Goblins: The Realm of the Faerie, 1880, Llanerch facsimile edition 1991
[11] E.M.Wright, Rustic Speech and Folklore, Oxford University Press, 1913.
[12] BobTrubshaw, 'Black Dogs in Folklore', Mercian Mysteries No 20, August 1994
[13] Lady Wilde, Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms and Superstitions of Ireland, London, 1878
[14] J.F.Campbell, Popular Tales of the Western Highlands Orally Collected, 1890
[15] Morrison, Sophia, Manx Fairy Tales, Nutt, London, 1911
[16] W. Bottrell, Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall, Penzance, 1870
[17] Robert Hunt, Popular Romances of the West of England, Chatto and Windus, 1930 [first pub. 1881]
[18] Evans Wentz, The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries,
[19] W.B.Yeats, Folk and Fairy Tales of the Irish Peasantry, 1888
[20] Crofton Croker, Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland, John Murray, London, 1827
[21] W.B.Yeats, Folk and Fairy Tales of the Irish Peasantry, 1888
[22] Adapted from Lady Wilde, Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms and Superstitions of Ireland, Ward & Downey, London 1887
[23] Ãâ°va Pócs, Fairies and Witches at the Boundary of South-Eastern
and Central Europe, paper presented at the Finnish Academy of Science
and Letters, 7th April 1988, published Helsinki 1989.
[24] Gutch and Peacock, Country Folk-lore; Lincolnshire, Folk Lore Society, 1908
[25] Evans Wentz 1911
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Crystals ~ Lapis Lazuli
Posted by: "Ash" mhc4sure@yahoo.com mhc4sure
Mon Nov 8, 2010 11:10 am (PST)
Source: Jodi
Crystals ~ Lapis Lazuli
by Maria
Lapis Lazuli the name comes from Arabic and Latin and means blue stone.
There are so many variations as to how it got is name. It is composed of
several minerals therefore crystal structure will differ. Lapis lazuli
is sensitive to strong pressure and high temperatures, hot baths, acids
and alkalies, and is best to remove lapis lazuli jewellery to avoid
contact with such. Its colours are lazur blue, violet, greenish-blue.
Properties:
Lapis Lazuli was often made into amulets and talismans. A protective
stone shielding you against psychic attack and returning the energy back
to its source. It brings forth ancient knowledge and wisdom. It is
helps you to connect to your Higher Self and Spirit Guides. It increases
your vibrational level promoting harmony and balance. It is known to
increase psychic abilities. It awakens your intuition and awareness to
matters that may be hidden by stimulating the higher senses of the mind,
bringing objectivity and clarity. Lapis lazuli inspires positive
thinking and can help lift mild depression and bad moods. It is also a
stone for self-confidence and self-expression encouraging those who find
if difficult to speak out.
The stone of friendship and truth said to encourage harmony in
relationships and strengthens the bond. It helps its wearer to be
authentic and give his or her opinion openly. Some believed that
dreaming of lapis would foretell love that would be forever faithful.
Lapis lazuli has long been associated with the eyes, since the Ancient
Egyptians used it for eye shadow and for making the sacred Eye of Horus
symbols. An Ancient Greek cure for eye problems was to place a piece of
lapis lazuli in a bowl of warm water, leaving it under the night sky for
a few minutes. The water was then used to bathe the afflicted eye. It
makes quite a powerful elixir to align the etheric, emotional and
spiritual bodies. On a Physical Level:
⢠It is a tonic to the nervous system
⢠It cools where there is inflammation and swelling
⢠Supports body's own healing by boosting the immune system
⢠Induces deep and sound sleep(insomnia)
⢠Alleviates migraine headaches
⢠Overcomes depression
⢠Benefits respiratory (throat, larynx, thyroid)
⢠Overcomes hearing loss and alleviates vertigo
⢠Lowers blood pressure
⢠Eyes, strengthening
History:
It has been used since at least 5000BC, and was very popular with many
ancient cultures. The most famous locality for fine quality lapis lazuli
is in the same ancient deposit high in the mountains of Afghanistan
where it was originally mined.
It is an opaque stone and its midnight blue colouring suggested to the
ancient Egyptians that it was a stone from the heavens; the flecks of
mica or pyrite contained within it were seen as representing the stars
in the night sky.
It was one of the stones in the breastplate of the high priest of
Israel; the tables upon which Moses received the Law were made of lapis
lazuli; and it was used in altars in Spanish churches. The stone was
also used by the Assyrians and Persians for making seals. Lapis Lazuli
was known as Sapphire. Ancient writers such as Pliny refer to
"sapphirus" as a stone speckled with flecks of gold - obviously a
reference to Lapis Lazuli.
Long ago, Lapis was used to make the pigment called Ultramarine, which
literally meant "beyond the sea". It was used by medieval artists for
the blue cloak of the Virgin Mary.
Physicians for ancient Egypt, Sumer and Babylon used lapis for many
medicinal purposes, including curing eye cataracts. The connection with
the eye may have come from the use of lapis to fashion carvings of a
stylized, which was called the Eye of Isis or the All-Seeing Eye of the
Goddess Maat. Since Isis was said to watch over the dead on their final
journey, the lapis eye was placed in the sarcophagus with the mummy. The
chief justice of Egypt wore the Eye of Maat when he rendered judgments.
Deities:
Lapis lazuli was sacred to the Sumerian goddess of love and war, Ishtar,
who was said to have worn a necklace made from it. Lapis Lazuli was one
of the most favourite stones of the Egyptians. It was thought to be
sacred to the star goddess Nuit of the heavens and to Maat, the goddess
of truth and balance. Judges in Ancient Egypt had to wear small lapis
lazuli pendants of Maat on gold chains, as a sign of the responsibility
of their office. If you wished to call upon one of these goddesses, you
placed a piece of lapis lazuli as an offering on your altar.
The stone was often used to represent the heavens, and the earliest
reference to it is in a Sumerian hymn describing the Moon god Sim as
having a "long flowing beard, bright as lapis lazuli".
The Egyptian Sun god Ra was also described as having lapis lazuli hair, which was symbolic of the heavens.
Dazhbog, the Sun and Father God who is called Grandfather of Russia. He
travels in a chariot across the sky, bringing with the morning light,
justice and abundance.
Athena - Greek Goddess of War
Dana (Danu) Celtic River Goddess
Hera - Greek Queen of Gods
Nuit - Egyptian Goddess of Heaven and Sky
Yhi - In Australian Aboriginal mythology (specifically: Karraur), Yhi is
a goddess of light and creation, and a solar deity. She lived in the
Dream time and slept until a whistle awakened her.
Isis - Egyptian Goddess of Magic and Giver of Life.
Ereshkigal is the Sumerian and Babylonian Death Goddess. She was the Queen of the Dead and of the Underworld.
Brigid, the Celtic goddess of fire (the forge and the hearth), poetry,
healing, childbirth, and unity, is celebrated in many European
countries. She is known by many names, including that of Saint Brigid
who is, perhaps, the most powerful religious figure in Irish history.
Ariadne was the immortal wife of the wine-god Dionysos. Often called the
mistress or priestess of the Labyrinth, Ariadne began her journey as
the mortal daughter of Minos, king of Crete. Magical Use:
Blue is the colour of idealism, of acquired or traditional knowledge, of
learning whatever the age of the person and of wise leadership
qualities.
Protects against the fears and dangers of the night, against betrayal
and psychic and emotional vampires; use for star and night magic, for
promotion, house moves, for leadership opportunities, for female power
rituals and to unite the family.
To attract spiritual love, empower lapis lazuli and a pink candle with
your need for love. Use the sharp edge of stone to carve a heart into
the candle. Place the stone near the candleholder and burn the candle
while visualizing a love coming into your life. After the spell is
complete, carry the stone with you until the love you seek arrives.
If you have trouble speaking from the heart and saying what you really
feel, anoint a piece of lapis lazuli with cedar oil (which is sacred to
Ishtar), and ask for help in expressing yourself.
Edgar Cayce, recommending carrying a piece of Lapis Lazuli with you at
all times wherever you go. He felt it one of the best spiritual stones,
the "Sleeping Prophet".
If friend needs healing, hold a stone and picture them as healed,
healthy, and whole. Visualise the energy streaming into the stone and on
to the person. Hold in hand during healing ritual or place around blue
or purple candles, helps focus energy towards outcome. Dream work -
place a small piece inside pillowcase if having trouble remembering
dreams or to increase vibrational level of dreaming. Due to Lapis
Lazuli's connection to Jupiter, it is a good stone to use for legal
matters.
In ancient Sumer, the stone was very closely associated with the deities
in general, and in carrying it, its possessor bore the potent magical
power of a deity, for the stone contained the force behind all divinity.
Some said the stone contained the soul the deity, who would "rejoice it
its owner".
Chakra: Aids in balancing and cleansing all the chakras. Throat chakra,
deals with blockages. Awakens third eye, use with care if placing
directly on the third eye.
Element: Water, Air
Energy: Receptive
Planet: Saturn, Venus, Jupiter
Birthstone: Sep, Dec (Ancient)
Zodiac: Aries, Aquarius, Taurus (Ancient), Libra
Numerical: Vibration: 3 References:
Magic and Ritual in Practice: Lesson 2. 2006
Gemstones of the World, Walter Schumann
Health Essentials, Crystal Healing, Simon Lilly
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Yhi
Complete Book of Natural Magick, Cassandra Eason
A Year and a Day in Magick, Cassandra Eason
Illustrated Guide to Crystals, Judy Hall
Goddess Crystals Written by Kernow Wytch Sep 20, 2008
Goddess Correspondence Stones by Lilitu Babalon
The Book of Crystals, A practical guide to the beauty and healing influence of crystals and gemstones
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http://www.gemstonebuzz.com/ meaning/lapis- lazuli
http://crystal-cure.com/ lapis-gem. html
http://mineral.galleries. com/minerals/ silicate/ lazurite/ lazurite. htm
http://www.mineralminers.com/ html/lapminfo. htm
http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/Lapis_lazuli
http://www.gemstone.org/gem- by-gem/english/ lapis.html
http://www.helium.com/items/ 964388-history- and-significance -of-lapis- lazuli-gemstones
Image - Lapis lazuli photographed by Maria from her private collection.
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Wizard and Witch Newsletter
Posted by: "Ash" mhc4sure@yahoo.com mhc4sure
Mon Nov 8, 2010 3:30 pm (PST)
Monday November 8, 2010
Hello Friends
Long time no newsletter! I hope you are doing well and you had a fantastic Halloween/Samhain. The kids went trick or treating (with us in tow) then Paul and I went to our local cemetery to feed the birds and remember the dead.
Our current magazine came out on 1st November. It's all about the Phooka. You can get your copy at Lulu or through our Exclusive Magick membership site.
Hope you enjoy the newsletter this week. Paul is in the writing hotseat.
A Vampire Visitation
Thanks to Hollywood most people are firmly convinced all portals are
evil because they're gateways to Hell. Though there's no denying such
portals do in fact exist, they're only one type. Dimensional doorways
exist nearly everywhere. And most of them don't take you to Hell. In
this months Wizard and Witch Magazine, Lyn and I will be expanding on
the portal theme.
I thought for this newsletter, however, I'd use the Hollywood
half truth with a few twists. I decided I'd share a true story minus
half truths, utter rubbish, and special effects. Have faith though,
whilst true stories lack the flash, sensationalism, and laughable music,
they're far more bone chilling than "The Hollywood Spoofs".
One dark rainy night a group of teens gathered in an abandoned shack
in the middle of the woods to hang out. Whilst they smoked weed and
drank cheap wine from a bottle, they discussed their lives. After a
couple of hours, they became bored (as young people are apt to quickly
do), so one of the young girls who'd been dabbling with occult
knowledge pulled a Ouija board out of her handbag and suggested they chat with spirits for fun.
Lack of experience combined with weed and alcohol caused the others
to quickly agree. Within seconds candles were gathered, lights
extinguished, and a circle was formed around the board. Without any
precautions or focus the teens began to reach out to the nearest random
spirits and ask questions about their lives.
At first the spirits played the role of charming hosts and answered
their questions politely. But this was only to draw the young people
in and establish a degree of trust. Once rapport had been established
things quickly took a dark turn. A grey demonic face appeared in the
bubble of the planchette and the teens found they couldn't remove their
hands. Then an audible voice said, "I've answered your paltry
questions, now let me show you your fate." All of a sudden the
planchette formed this message
W-E-A-R-E-G-O-I-N-G-T- O-K-I-L-L- A-N-D-E-A- T-E-V-E-R- Y-O-N-E-O- F-Y-O-U.
At that precise moment the lights went out and the face disappeared.
Though they tried desperately to escape the terror racing through
them, it was to no avail. Finally, everyone agreed it would be best
for all to go home.
One girl needed to use the bathroom before she left. Whilst she was
in there the demon appeared to her in the mirror and instructed her to
cut herself deeply. Though she'd never even considered such an act it
seemed a good idea at the time. So, she located a razor and opened
her arm. The demon smiled and told her to drink. And she did. It
wasn't until she sucked a good deal of her own blood from the gaping
wound that she was able to snap out of it. She ran screaming from the
house.
Two of the boys hopped on motor bikes and raced off. Sadly, they
never made it home. A mack truck came from nowhere and ended both of
their lives.
Two more of the girls ran from the house only to be torn to pieces
by wild dogs who just happened to be roaming the area at the time.
Their bodies were never completely recovered. Speculation has it the dogs swallowed them.
In the end the only one who made it out alive was the one who
suggested the game. Was this a natural irony, or did she perhaps
knowingly aid her stoned and inebriated peers in opening a portal to
Hell in order to feed her hungry friends?
Recipe
Any of you who've viewed my past recipes know I love my food hot and
spicy. I'm also a lover of stocky winter vegetables. So, you can
imagine my great joy when I stumbled on this recipe that ticks both
boxes. Not only that but hot follows this weeks demon theme=)
Parsnip and Turnip Winter Vegetable Chili
What you need:
3 garlic cloves minced
1 onion, diced
2 tbsp oil
3 zucchinis/courgettes, chopped
1 red or yellow bell pepper, chopped
3 parsnips, diced
2 turnips, diced
1 cup mushrooms, sliced
3 stalks celery, diced
2 carrots, diced
2 14 ounce cans of black beans
1 14 ounce cans diced tomatoes
2 4.5 ounce cans tomato paste
1/2 cup white wine
5 tbsp chili powder
2 tsp cumin
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper, or to taste
What to do:
In a large soup or stock pot, sautee the onion and garlic in oil for 3 to 5 minutes.
Add the vegetables and cook, stirring frequently for a few more minutes.
Something to think about
"Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life." - Benjamin Disraeli
Have a wonderful week!
Blessings
Lyn & Paul
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HOC class Wicca 102, Nov. 9, Old Bridge NJ
Hands of Change open class Wicca 102
Date:
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Time:
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Location:
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Old Bridge, NJ 08857
Phone: 848-391-5969
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Fw: DailyOM: Outside the Comfort Zone
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DailyOM - Things We Donât Want to Do
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November 8, 2010
Outside the Comfort Zone
Things We Donât Want to Do
Putting off doing what scares us and brings up fear only creates more obstacles in our lives.
Most of us have had the experience of tackling some dreaded task only to come out the other side feeling invigorated, filled with a new sense of confidence and strength. The funny thing is, most of the time when we do them, we come out on the other side changed and often wondering what we were so worried about or why it took us so long. We may even begin to look for other tasks weâve been avoiding so that we can feel that same heady mix of excitement and completion.
Whether we avoid something because it scares us or bores us, or because we think it will force a change weâre not ready for, putting it off only creates obstacles for us. On the other hand, facing the task at hand, no matter how onerous, creates flow in our lives and allows us to grow. The relief is palpable when we stand on the other side knowing that we did something even though it was hard or we didn't want to do it. On the other hand, when we cling to our comfort zone, never addressing the things we don't want to face, we cut ourselves off from flow and growth.
We all have at least one thing in our life that never seems to get done. Bringing that task to the top of the list and promising ourselves that we will do it as soon as possible is an act that could liberate a tremendous amount of energy in our lives. Whatever it is, we can allow ourselves to be fueled by the promise of the feelings of exhilaration and confidence that will be the natural result of doing it.
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Fw: Come join me at How To Use Self-Hypnosis to Manifest The Life Yo
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Fw: New Moon Shamanic Drumming Circle This Thursday!
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Mon Nov 8, 2010 6:57 pm (PST)
Greetings Dear Ones,
Happy New Moon! This moon is in Scorpio and there is quite a bit of emotional and transformational energy flying around! Can you feel it?
I have been called to facilitate a new monthly drumming circle at Practical Magick in Pompton Lakes! This drumming circle will focus on the pivotal threshold the new moon energy brings. While we will be working with the new moon energy a few days after it's initial appearance, it is still a powerful and potent time to either craft your new moon intention, or if you already have one, to bring more Light to your new moon intention in deeper and transformative ways.
Come join us this Thursday at Practical Magick in Pompton Lakes, NJ at 8pm! General details are below.
Seating is limited, so please RSVP to me as soon as you can so I can reserve a spot for you!
Many Healing Blessings,
~Denise~
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New Moon Shamanic Drumming Circle
November 11, 2010 from 8:00pm â" 10:00pm
Practical Magick II, 322B Wanaque Ave., Pompton Lakes, NJ
Love Donation: $25.00
The new moon is a potent and magickal time of the month to look deep into our souls to discover what is needed to be released and brought into ourselves and our lives. When this magickal act is done in ceremony, it sets the stage for deep healing and personal transformation to occur.
This monthly circle will work in a shamanic context to create a sacred space for New Moon magick to transform ourselves and our lives. While working in Harmony with the Healing Spirits of the Universe, each participant will have opportunities to deepen their relationships with their personal spirit guides to aid the transformational process.
Please bring drums, rattles, an eyeshade or bandana, and any other sacred items you wish to place on the altar. If you already know what new moon intention you wish to work with, feel free to bring in a physical representation of your intention to be placed on the altar.
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