I had a dream last night that involved, among other things, seeing a group of small birdlike beings with fangs. They were about the size of ducks, covered in soft fuzzy white-grey downy feathers all over and where their beaks would have been instead they had muzzles full of a multitude of sharp fangs.I have no idea what exactly they were although I feel that they were Otherworldly. They were also…
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The Chilling Adventure of Sabrina – One Witch’s Thoughts
Netflix recently released a new series, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, based on the comic book series of the same name. I don’t generally get into television much but I decided to give this show a try for three reasons: it’s a sort of spin off of Riverdale which is one of my oldest child’s favorite shows, pre-release buzz said there’d be a non-binary character in the show, and the previews…
Rabbit Bone Divination – Developing a System
I little while I go I started feeling a nudge to create my own divination system with bones. I was driving home and the idea came to me, and I tried to push it aside because it seemed too complicated for me to take on right now, but the idea just kept lingering. I kept getting the idea of using rabbit bones* for this purpose and it just wouldn’t go from my mind. I finally asked for some kind…
Miscellaneous Q & A
I thought it would be fun to do another question and answer blog today so I asked for questions on social media and here they are along with my answers:Rei asks: On the subject of fairies, do you think there are wildly different beings in different parts of the world with different ‘rules of engagement’ as it were? I’ve had some experiences here in Appalachia that do not seem to hold to the same…
Two Book Reviews: The Winnowing of White Witchcraft and British Fairies
Today I’d like to offer two short book reviews of texts I’ve recently read that I enjoyed very much. They are extremely different books, but both valuable I think in their own ways.
The first book I’d like to review today is ‘The Winnowing of White Witchcraft’ by Edward Poeton, with an introduction by Simon Davies.
The book is a new release of a 17th century book that had never been…
What Is a Fairy Court?
It was recently brought to my attention on social media that not everyone may understand exactly what a royal court is or how one functions, and specifically how this relates to the fairy courts. Today I want to address this issue and try to offer some clarity on the subject for anyone who is curious.
‘Riders of the Sidhe’ by John Duncan
It’s important to understand that when we talk…
The Elfin Knight: an Excerpt from ‘Travelling the Fairy Path’
The following article is an excerpt from my forthcoming book ‘Travelling the Fairy Path’. It looks at material from the ballad ‘The Elfin Knight’ and what we may learn from it as people interested in fairylore. I find it particularly valuable in what it may teach is about the importance of consent for witches when dealing with the Fair Folk in certain situations, particularly sexual ones. We see…
Reconstructing Early Modern Witchcraft Resources
I draw on a lot of resources for my own practice of witchcraft, and at this point I’ve moved away (for the most part) from looking at how other modern practitioners do things and instead draw on ideas about how historic witchcraft was likely done. I combine that with folk magic practices and the Fairy Faith to create the practical system that I use for my witchcraft.
Here is a list of some of…
Fairies and the Dead part 2
So I’m recently running into this idea that all fairies are the human dead.Let’s unpack that because its complicated.
I have written about the intertwining of fairies and the dead before in a blog that was an excerpt from my book ‘Fairies’. The subject is very convoluted and there really is no direct answer to the question “Are the fairies human dead?”. Ultimately we would have to say yes, no,…
Fairy Priestessing: When Your Spirituality Swallows You Whole
In a lot of the pagan community I see an approach to spirituality that is a bit like a video game: you start and you achieve different levels as you go, until you beat the game and win. This bothers me on a couple levels which I’d like to address before I get into the meat of today’s blog which is going to be about my own experiences of living as a priestess of the Good Folk. Firstly the idea…