Blessings Darlings!
I enjoy discussing religion, politics, magic, gardening, prepping, cooking, food, science, and a whole lot of other stuff. And if there is a topic, there are probably hundreds of Facebook groups for that. Some of those groups are good, and promote great discussions, and everyone learns new things and grows. But those groups are really bloody rare.
They seem especially rare for Pagan and Witch topics. Discussion and citing sources and …
The relationship between the Good People and the sacred objects and words of Christianity are complex. Some fairies are utterly unbothered by the symbols and ritual actions of the new religion, some are very concerned about their own place within Christian cosmology, while others seem to violently abhor anything relating to the ‘new’ religion. Those who show an aversion to these symbols and…
Series: Irish Texts Society Volume XLIX
Editor: Cecile O’Rahilly
Publisher: The Irish Texts Society and Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies
Published: First Published 1967, this copy 1984.
Pages: 357 includes the original text, translation, notes to the text and introduction and Index + Introduction.
**Notes from Celtic Scholar: This short review is not about the actual text of the Táin Bó Cúalnge or the translation but mostly about the Introduction and the notes at the end.
Another taboo that we see among many of the Good People relates to names. Names have power and we find in many cases both an aversion to saying the names of certain types of the Daoine Maithe as well as an avoidance of personal names. Even nicknames have power and when we look at anecdotal evidence we find that often rather than giving a name to a fairy that a person might have regular encounters…
I want to start off by acknowledging that we all see the Gods differently and I know that sometimes a person can relate to a deity in a way that is unusual (comparatively) or unique to them; maybe this is how they need to see that deity for personal reasons. What I want to address here is something that I’ve seen more and more often among people discussing the Morrigan, and that is the idea that…
Having looked at the common (but not ubiquitous) prohibition of the fairies against humans saying thank you to them, now let’s turn to another even more prevalent fairy taboo, that of secrecy. The idea with this one is that the Good People do not like to find out they have been seen, unless they are choosing to show themselves, and they prefer people not to talk too freely about benefits they…
I’ve talked before about the way that spirituality can sometimes end up affecting the way we live our lives in a blog called ‘Reshaped Living’ and I think it’s important to understand the way that personal gnosis can directly influence us. Another way that spirituality can influence our lives is with the taking on of spiritual prohibitions or directives, which may be related to our spirituality…
Most of us are familiar with the idea of classical witches selling their souls to the Devil, but there is another concept we see as well in folkloric sources: a person selling their soul to the fairies. The implication in the wider narrative is that the soul is being pledged to the Queen of Fairy but it is rarely spelled out as such. This is usually done as a combination of a required…
Blessings Darlings!
So, we moved again – now close to the house we first lived in in this area, only right on the cattle farm instead of it being ‘across the street, and behind the house on the other side of the street’ from us. Moving is always hard when you’re old and have ‘stuff’, but most of that is …
I’d like to do a series focusing on specific geasa, or taboos, that relate to how humans interact with fairies. These are things that you either should do or should never do when dealing with the fey folk. I’m hoping that doing this as a series of shorter posts might be more engaging for readers and make the points easier to remember than having a wall of information thrown at you.
I thought it…