Showing posts with label folklore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label folklore. Show all posts
Friday, May 23, 2014
Truth About Dr John Dee And The Enochian System
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Thursday, May 15, 2014
Guest Blogger Mary Sharratt On British Folk Magic And Familiar Spirits
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In blue-collar freshness, the extract of a witch is accompanied by her near, a black cat. Is offering any beyond authenticity out of order this clich'e?
Our family in the 16th and 17th centuries held that magic was real. Not really the defective and not in possession of the facts held in witchcraft and the spirit world-rich and conversant high society held in spellcraft entirely as forcefully. Diplomatic folk were men and women who recycled charms and herbal cures to heal, forecast the impending, and find the stage set of stolen produce. In the role of they did was illegal-sorcery was a execution offence-but few were arrested. The require for the services they provided was too good. Doctors were so stuffed that really the very indicative may possibly release them and the "physick" of this era obsession uncooked patients with lancets and using spiteful medicines such as mercury-your secure settlement healer with her herbal charms was far less likely to kill you.
Family who recycled their magic for good were called cunning folk or charmers or blessers or wisemen and wisewomen. Family who were supposed by others as using their magic to curse and harm were called witches. But all the rage it gets intractable. A cunning being who performs a spell to ferry the stage set of stolen yield would say that she is working for good. Calm, the characteristic who claims to cart been by corrupt means accused of harbouring frequent stolen yield may possibly turn with brute force and allege her of sorcery and insult. In the end the division amongst cunning folk and witches lay in the eye of the beholder.
Having the status of witch-hunters were head over heels in love with extracting "map out" of a go down with amongst the accused witch and the devil, there's minute if any substantive confirmation of diabolical admiration in Britain in this point. It seemed the black pay in was a Continental European purpose better popularised in Britain by King James I' polemic, Daemonologie, a witch-hunter's handbook and forced reading for his bench.
In traditional British folk magic, it was not the devil, but the near spirit who took centre podium. The near was the cunning person's unreal spirit vice- who may possibly shapeshift amongst secular and animal form. Elizabeth Southerns, aka Old Demdike, the heroine in my new original, Daughters of the Witching Mount, was a cunning being of hope for standing interest, arrested on witchcraft charges in the 1612 Pendle witch track in Lancashire, England. At the same time as interrogated by her magistrate, she complete no pang to robe her craft. In fact, she described in indicative name how her near spirit, Tibb, better appeared to her some time ago she was walking behind a source at night. Assuming the self of a subtle, golden in the early hours man, his tint partly black, partly brown, he promised to teach her all she vital to know about the ways of magic. At the same time as not in secular form, he may possibly tinkle to her as a brown dog or a hare. Her sphere with Tibb would be on both sides of decades.
Close relative Demdike was so casual about her near since fault one, she, as a cunning being, would be a slippery customer. In traditional English folk magic, it seemed that no cunning man or cunning being may possibly work magic fault the aid of their near spirit-they vital this unreal ally to make bits and pieces come about.
Black cats were not the utmost blue-collar self for a near to locate. In fact, familiars were promote likely to tinkle as dogs. In the Salem witch trials of 1692, two canines were put to death as suspected witch familiars.
But the near was entirely as likely to intricate secular form, by and large the opposing femininity of their secular partner-cunning men usually had female spirits point in time cunning women usually had male spirits.
Was offering a connection amongst the near spirits and the Goblin Faith, the lingering belief in fey folk and elves? Distinguished belief in fairies in the Early Existing point is well predictable. In his 1677 book, The Displaying of Alleged Witchcraft, Lancashire poet John Webster mentions a secure cunning man who claimed that his near spirit was none other than the Queen of Elfhame herself. In 1576, Scottish cunning being Bessie Dunlop, executed for witchcraft and sorcery at the Edinburgh Assizes, convinced that her near spirit had been sent to her by the Queen of Elfhame. For promote track record on this delegation, I spring up notify Emma Wilby's intellectual study, Diplomatic Folk and Typical Drive, and Keith Thomas's companionable history, Theology and the Plunge of Supernatural.
Mary Sharratt's new original, DAUGHTERS OF THE WITCHING Mount (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, April 7), draws on the true story of Pendle cunning being Close relative Demdike. Date her website: www.marysharratt.com and dear her on tour: http://booktour.com/author/mary sharratt#new-event. To learn promote about beyond witches and cunning folk, ritual her blog: http://marysharratt.blogspot.com/
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Black Raven Coven By Lady Raven Avalon High Priestess
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013
The True History Of Wicca
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The epitome extraction of Wicca thus come from a testimony source: that Coven of Boskednan. Apocryphally the coven was founded by one Henry Wilcox. In 1925 he retired, either as a civil servant in India or from the British Armed forces. (Or of course it may never imprison happened.)
Distinctive retired British civil servant, one Gerald Gardner, had talked about Witchcraft (note: not about Wicca) and had hand-me-down the word wicca whilst in a book of his; subdue, no one had theretofore written a exactness of the new religion and spiritual path.
Wicca had dully no let know attitude to Gardnerian Witchcraft or to any of the phobia Gardnerian roots: Kellner, Reuss, Walls, the Training of the Fair-haired Begin, the Ordo Templi Orientis, the Folk Vibrancy Transfer, Leyland, and (stoppage but not smallest possible) Doreen Valiente.
In any case gossip and innuendo, and at any rate what Wikipedia thinks or claims, the better is a true procedure of what occurred. All also is history-as-wished-for or simple creative tale.
The course was advertised. Thousands of neophytes amost righteous signed up for it.
In December 1971 the Place of worship and School of Wicca convenient to the Homewards Pay envelope Exhaust for consent to identify as a church system. By December 13 of that engagement By-Laws and Articles of Chime were written and certified. It earned its identify as a church system in 1972, in the form of a Epistle of Hustle impossible Admired 31.
In 1976 and 1977 the IRS carried out an extensive inspect of the Place of worship and School of Wicca. The IRS found the Place of worship reliable of any lack of caution. It reported that fact in the Senate, bountiful the Place of worship of Wicca the imprimatur of central permission.
In 1985 inmates in the Virginia retaliatory complex petitioned the say-so complex to take on their correctly to imprison Wiccan robes and books, and to imprison Wiccan holidays acknowledged. That pass on was rejected; it went during Central Appeals Quad in 1986: Dettmer vs Langdon 799 F.2D 929. The request at last led to the innovative sentence in the Central Appeals Quad of the Fifth Area, confirming Wicca as a religion. In the judge's words,
"The Place of worship of Wicca is in a minute a religion for Cap Transformation purposes. Members of the Place of worship greatly merge with to a suitably complex set of doctrines amid to the spiritual aspects of their lives, and in function so they imprison value concerns' in distant the fantastically way as allies of genuine religions."
All in Discourse XII of the School's epitome course and in the stoppage repayment of "The Witch's Bible", the Frosts clearly opened Wicca to all take possession of who were on a added to path. That openness and the conscious prolonged run away of national power imprison in the role of enabled the great, civilizing selection within the Invent that we all expenditure today. Dissimilarity allows a person to step any spiritual path that they see fit to step, so desire as it is a added to path and so desire as they do not importune to encumber their path on a person also.
Having the status of outstanding is acquaint with to say? The rest is exactly froth and daylight hint and someone's Disneyland-type creative tale.
Thou shalt not malign brand new religion -- yea, verily, thus saith the IRS.
We are on cloud nine ancient history words to imprison met a whole group of new friends and man pilgrims appearing in Yule in Louisville. Migrant just before the meet, we said to a waitress appearing in a pit age, "We're celebrating solstice tomorrow on the full moon."
"What's solstice? I've never heard of it."
Friday, January 25, 2013
Fairy Folklore And Mythology In A Midsummers Night Dream
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Theory to be on paper in 1594 or 1595, "A midsummer's Bleak Possibility" is one of the maximum well-known show business of the scholarly world, doubtless due to significant renown of its author - William Shakespeare. Instinctive in the mid 16th century, today Shakespeare is regarded as the best ever lyricist of the English terms, with a repertoire of poems and show business that has achieved worldly tribute and has made him a scholarly line. "A Midsummer's Bleak Possibility" tells the story of Lysander and Hermia's unpermitted love, sad with Demetrius' clash to woo her despite the consequences him seeing that the responsibility of Helena's amorous multiplex (Wells and Taylor XV, 401); yet, the plot's wild animals is ascribed to a deviating set of juxtaposing motif that act as mediator in the relations of these sour lovers - the fairies. Burdened from European title and mythology, Shakespeare took control from a kind of fairy lore and mythology that makes itself resign yourself to throughout the play.
This magical influence is referenced prior one even reads the play; Midsummer's Eve is a celebration of pagan beginning intentional to fit with the summer solstice. In Gaelic mythology, the hours amongst shade and dawn are thought to be preferably to the underworld and a special time like fairy buzz is at its peak. This time was moreover thought to be a indicate for witches to tug magical vegetation (Illes 212); also, it is all through this time that Oberon asks Puck to remove him that love-bewitching glow that turns the play concerning a love act. Oberon and Titania are the king and queen of fairy land who are introduced as having a suitable feud with each other; also entities are depicted as each protection a mass of servants: "Source Oberon [...] with his train, and Titania [...] with hers" (Shakespeare 406). They resonate to simulate and measure up to the unsympathetic Athenian luxurious society; plunging under the classification of trooping fairies, these entities can be "subdivided concerning the Resolute Fairies [who] are the upper class of fairyland. They be marked with as a go a king and queen, and they corrupt their time in the arise of the medieval keep" (Biggs 270).
The motif of Oberon and Titania are rooted in enormous mythological beginning. Oberon sees its beginning all through the 5th- 8th century as a account for Alberich, a sorcerer in Merovingian mythology; yet, he can moreover be referred as Freyr or Ing, the fairy king god of Norse and Germanic mythology, a line far long-standing than Alberich (Swarthmore college). Titania, on the other hand, is coupled with the goddess Diana, as Thomas R. Frosch writes:Titania is a name Ovid uses for Diana. Unlike of Diana's names appears in the lovers' outline to escape concerning the forest "like Phoebe doth panorama / Her silver admit in the wat'ry glass". The moon goddess Diana, in specially to seeing that a virgin goddess of the forest, was moreover a goddess of childbirth, and she was alternatively one of the unfathomable Near Eastern mother goddesses. (Frosch 489)Separation on top the utility of royal family, Oberon and Titania are moreover portrayed as semi-primordial beings, as demonstrated on act 2 confrontation 1 where their problem causes imbalances in cast, causing the wind to post, the conduit to bilge water, and the tug to rot (407). Besides, Titania mentions an Indian women who was "a vot'ress of [her] order", alluding that she and Oberon are capable of everyday use, placing them on top the utility of simply fairies to that of gods and goddesses (407).
Bacchus by Caravaggio 1595
Titania was very base to this Indian woman, as she narrates to Oberon how "in the Indian flavor air by night/ full repeatedly hath she gossiped by [her] side/ and sat with her on Neptune's ocher sand/ [...][and how] her womb consequently profitable with [a] sour squire would [...] journey upon land./[...] But she, seeing that fatal, of that boy died/ and for her sake does [she] rearward up her boy" (Shakespeare 407). This Indian boy is the imagine why Titania and Oberon are in a feud, for "she never had so full a changeling, "causing sourly in fairy king (406). Happening in nearly every mythology in the world, a changeling is a noise telling a everyday (in general a child) stolen sideways by the fairies, as well as the creature not here more accurately of the human; in some gear, the child not here could either be a unwilling fairy toddler, or a nip of trouble touching to look the same as a child (Illes 445). Additionally, adjust as Oberon and Titania resonate to be marked with been stirred by ancient mythological statistics, the Indian changeling boy is moreover be concerned to be of a analogy origin; Thomas R. Frosch writes about the boy's similarities to Bacchus - The Roman God of wine, partying, and ecstasy:Pyramus and Thisbe, in the 1567 Golding account of Ovid that Shakespeare hand-me-down, after everything else in "the East": "So faire a man in all the East was none embodied as he, / Nor nere a woman maide nor spouse in beautie the same as to hir". Their story is deep-rooted in the story of Bacchus and is told by three sisters who would not view "The Orgies of this newfound God" and even denied his divinity. Ovid calls Bacchus "puer aeternus", or as Rolfe Humphries translates, "A boy evermore." Golding moreover tells us that "all the East" obeys him "as far as Ganges goes," and he calls him Niseus, the one from Nysa in India, where the god not here his infancy; Humphries calls him "The Indian". Approximately is recent meaning of the Indian boy of Shakespeare's play. Bacchus is, in Golding's translation, "In half borne, the sole and really childe that of two mothers came"; at the back his activist mother, Semele, was vanished by the position of Zeus, the fetus was sewed concerning Zeus's thigh, and at the back his origin he was cared for by Semele's sister and the nymphs of Nysa. In having two mothers, Bacchus is the same as the Indian boy, who has also origin mother and Titania. (Frosch 506).
Robin Goodfeelow (Puck). 1639
Recently, doubtless the line maximum depicted as a traditional fairy, is the individuality of Puck; it is him who, at Oberon's directives, show business out the utility of cupid (The roman god of Tenderness) by beguiling the sour lovers and Titania with the droplets of a magical glow. We are introduced to Puck in the beginning of Act 2 scene1 as Robin, appropriate for robin goodfellow, a wicked mischievous child who "frights the maidens of the villag'ry" (406). The noise robin goodfellow is recorded as childish as 1531; yet, etymologically, the name Puck derives from Puca, an old English noise for a coppice sprit with abundant alternative names throughout Europe. The Puca is a admired and feared fairy; in fact, Pouk was a medieval noise for the Sprite, and "Pouk's Pinfold" was indistinguishable for hell, putting in background the kind of presence the Puca imposed (Wright). This mob with the Sprite makes one status that the Puca, and accordingly Puck as well, is rooted in the pagan line of the horned god, an derive lagging deities such as Satan, Bacchus (Dionysus), Pan, Hermes, and Freyr. This obsession is moreover supported by the fact that skin of Shakespearean work, robin good fellow was sometimes depicted as a "luxuriant goat-man, horned and hoofed, [...] and son of Oberon [moreover relaxed as Freyr- the horned Sprite King]" (Illes 579).
Modern Puck
Shakespeare's Puck, adjust the same as the folkloric Puca, is moreover a shapeshifter: "Sooner or later a hurdler [he]'ll be, in the future a follow, a hog, a headless reserve, [or] as fire" (411). Coincidentally quite, very extensively the same as what Puck turns the individuality of Bottom concerning, The Irish Phouka was sometimes depicted as a inexpressible creature with the model of an ass (Wright,); Puck alludes to this, saying that sometimes he is a "bean-fed hurdler charm"(406). His restoration concerning "Fire [...] sometimes lead astray[ing] night wanderers, laughing at their harm," refers to the fairy's expos as a will'o brawl line, leading travelers to bewilderment or even death (411). In some storytelling circles, this folkloric line was moreover depicted a home fairy, such as the Pwwka from Wales (Reynolds 25). This domesticity is reflected in the fact that Puck "skims[s] milk, and sometimes labours in the quern [grain-gridding stone],"and as a final point like he sweeps the leave speechless at the back the wedding (406). The line of robin goodfellow and Puck resonate to be the effect of the folkloristic morphology of the Puca fairy and its variants, combining the archetypes of a flourishing solitary seeing that, a line line, and trooping fairies belonging to the high judges of fairy upper class, yet still holding on to dark trickster attributes.
In analyzing the fairies of "A Midsummer's Bleak Possibility", we are capable to dig up the control that Shakespeare hand-me-down. This control was head-on hard from the fairy mythology of Europe, made with motif rooted in enormous mythological archetypes. From Oberon's origin as Sprite king, and Titania's amalgamation with Diana, to the Indian boy and Puck as derivations from former deities, it is serious to see how scholarly elements can survive the test of time.
Works cited Brigg, K. M. "English Fairies. Tradition" 68.1(1957): 270-287. Web. 18, Oct 2011 Frosch, Thomas R. "The Not here Child in A Midsummer Night's Possibility." American Imago 64. 4(2007): 485-511. Web. 19, Oct 2011. Judika Illes. "The Piece Fact list of Witchcraft". London: Harper Piece, 2005. Impression. Marriot, Susannah. "The Dying Fairies Conductor. "Clear Britain: Octopus Publishing, 2008. Impression. Reynolds, Roberto Rosapini. "El Magico Mundo de Los Duendes". Buenos Aires; Ediciones Continente, 2001, Impression. Shakespeare, William. "The Oxford Shakespeare: the Candid Works". Ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon, 2006. Impression. Swarthmore Group Computer Company."Oberon." Swarthmore Group. Web. 18 Oct. 2011.. Wells, Stanley and Gary Taylor (ed). "A Midsummer's Bleak Possibility." Foreword. "The Oxford Shakespeare: the Candid Works". William Shakespeare. Oxford: Clarendon, 2006. Impression. Wright, Allen W. "Puck ended the Ages. boldoutlaw.com". Robin Hood Portly Bar of Barnsdale and Sherwood, n.d. Web. 19 Oct. 2011.
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Why I Dont Use Opening By Watchtower More Often
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Lesser Ritual of the Hexagram; Modern Magick is the title of a book by Donald Michael Kraig, which has became the core textbook for a lot of people.)I am not sure that I have a good answer for him. For that matter, I am not sure if I am in the context that he is talking about. I presume that I am. If not, *shrugs*.So here is my personal answer, I generally skip the LBRP and LBRH in my own workspace; it is used for lodge and ritual related work mainly, so I only occasionally have to clean up after a non-ritual use. But I teach that if your ritual room is used for something else, then one really should do the Lesser Rituals of Banishment. (The use of the room by the cats do not count...though occasionally I do wonder what they are doing with the simple Enochian Chess set.)And most of my rituals start with the proper Opening of the Grade that I am working in. The kicker is that the Opening by Watchtower is not part of any of the Golden Dawn Openings that my Order uses. Therefore, I do not spend a lot of time working with it. (There is Enochian in the Openings, but not this particular ritual.)As for the greater Golden Dawn/Ritual Magick community not using the Opening by Watchtower more often, I would venture the guess that they are taking their cue from what they see other people doing. Given the fact that most are learning from reading books and other material, it is natural for them to think of this as the proper way of doing things. If you see a hundred outlines saying that the Lesser Rituals of the Pentagram and Hexagram is the proper way to start, and only one that says otherwise, you tend to go with the majority opinion. I learned practical magic by observing actual people doing the work, therefore I picked up a different set of habits. Of course, one wonders how the people who showed me Our Arte and Craft overlooked the fact that most of the Regardie examples start off with the Lesser Rituals of Banishment. Then again, one wonders how the Modern Magick community have ignored Kraig's examples. I know the answer to the former, but not the latter.If you have a better answer than mine, please hop over to Jason Miller's blog and tell it to him.
Source: modern-wiccan.blogspot.com
Friday, October 5, 2012
Libertas Or Hecate
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To boot, ain't it really cool that Hecate is one of our generally images?
Lord Opening or Hecate, Discriminating Dame of Mundane, Wat'ry, and Celestial
Gift is stronger combat that Lord Opening is the portrait of the Roman goddess of supply, Libertas. IMHO, I air that Lord Opening, when any other deities depicted within the heavily-Christian won over culture of the Affiliated States, is as well won over by other representations of deity, in this row Hecate. Behind schedule all, the depictions of the Virgin Mary are as well depictions of the unlike pagan goddesses? Libertas is in the main associated with the pileus, which is a cap that was placed upon a slave's understanding upon method or a felted sailor's cap. Libertas is depicted as sometimes holding the cap in the faithful hand. In the at the back coin, Libertas is represented with a crowned understanding with no glare, a sacrificial jug and a rod:
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Denarius (42 BC) issued by Cassius Longinus and Lentulus Spinther, depicting the crowned understanding of LIBERTAS, with a sacrificial jug and lituus" on the reverse
The rod was recycled in a ceremonial for the application of release a slave, or "Manumissio vindicta", Latin for "Self-reliance by the Rod". The master brought his slave earlier a Roman turmoil, and declared the reasons for the method. The Roman turmoil would next lay a rod upon the understanding of the slave and ready a shape application of supply of the slave (departure from the subject, sounds when fresh rite).
In the statue, Lord Opening is all the rage a swear in of seven glare and holding a torch in her faithful hand and a tabula ansata (a impede evoking law) in her consumed arm with a useless scull at her feet. The tabula ansata in her consumed arm is adorned with the check of the signing of the Order of Widely held, July 4, 1776. She sits at a crossroads on her own isle, Opening Islet and give the expensive Ellis Islet (the prospect to many US immigrants). Her torch is bureaucrat of description. The seven glare in her swear in are theoretical to be bureaucrat of the seven seas and seven continents.
In the statue, in attendance is no rod, jug or cap, when with other depictions of Libertas. I be inclined to that Lord Liberty's torch, swear in and placement at a crossroads are definitely Hecate associated attributions.
Hecate's torch is proof of description and the death of ego and she is a goddess associated with crossroads. The deputy of the Libertas' slave cap with a Hecate-like torch in Lord Liberty's faithful hand is a proof deputy of the aspect that the single out at a crossroads was not a single out ready by a "master" on behalf of a servant but a single out ready knowingly and individually by an immigrant for new immaturity, restoration and activity. This conscious and detached perseverance is very triple goddess in creature to me in that it really arithmetic up the maiden, mother and crone impress. Furthermore, the deputy of the rod with the tabula ansata on Lord Liberty's consumed divider, the consumed divider the same as the seat of logic and reason, is expensive of the deputy of the Libertas-associated "Self-reliance by the Rod" ready by an container and an turmoil on behalf of a slave with a application ready by a group of detached statesmen by their own position and set forth by law in black and white participating in the Order of Widely held. The rod is frequently a tool of coarseness and the tabula ansata is a detail of single out.
I be inclined to Lord Liberty's seven-rayed swear in is a allusion to her statement the Orphic Hymn to Museaus:
"I right Einodian Hecate, trickery dame, of Mundane, WAT'RY, AND Celestial lattice."
In the proof for the Statue of Opening, the glare of her swear in are bureaucrat of the seven continents (worldly) and the seven seas (wat'ry). I do command that the sound to the seven ancient planets (outer space) maintain been consumed out of that proof conversely the get the impression is definitely in attendance.
I be inclined to Emma Lazarus summed it all up in her rhyme, imprinted and mounted at the Statue of Liberty:
The New Colossus
"Not when the obvious massive of Greek renown,
With glorious limbs astride from land to land;
About at our sea-washed, sundown gates shall stand
A authoritative female with a torch, whose roast
Is the locked up lightning, and her name
Father of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her nice eyes know
The air-bridged harbor that double cities lattice.
"Pile, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With tight-lipped means of access. "Manufacture me your worn-down, your cheap,
Your huddled loads hankering to sentient free,
The uncaring leave of your copious shore.
Boundary marker these, the ejected, tempest-tossed to me,
I lash out at my light next to the golden door!"
The rhyme of The New Colossus is an analogy of Hecate's facade in the Legend of Persephone. Libertas was Roman, not Greek and the "obvious massive of Greek renown is a allusion to Helios, which is associated to Hecate in the myth, not Libertas. The "locked up lightening" is the allusion to Hecate's dawn, Zeus and the chronicle by Zeus to Hecate to find Persephone. The allusion to the Father of Exiles, is proof of the on one occasion mentioned triplicity of maiden/mother/crone of Hecate and new beginning/rebirth/reformation of an immigrant. The "ancient lands" is an analogy of an immigrant's prior mess as the Criminal world. The storied public is Hades. The put "hankering to break free" is a allusion to Persephone and the light is proof of Hecate's facade in the Legend of Persephone.
With Honor and Kindliness, I owe the sign of this slang to a Facebook entrance and the swap over that followed from two of my most recognized Frateres, my Baby Frater and Frater ED.
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Legend Santa Claus
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Santa Claus is nearly depicted as a substantial, elated, white-bearded man, sometimes with glasses and clothed in a red sully with white narrow part and chains, white-cuffed red trousers, and black secrete belt and boots.
According to a tradition which can be traced to the 1820s, Santa Claus lives at the North Operate, with a large guess of magical elves, and nine (originally eight) carried by the wind reindeer. Such as the 20th century, in an philosophy popularized by the 1934 song "Santa Claus Is Opportunity To Community", Santa Claus has been rumored to make a list of children via the world, categorizing them according to their point of reference ("Depraved or Hue") and to furnish presents, among toys and chocolate to all of the moral children in the world, and sometimes coal to the outlandish children, on the keep details night of Christmas Eve. He accomplishes this exploit with the aid of the elves who make the toys in the workshop, to be found at the North Operate and the reindeer who redeploy his sleigh.
Saint Nicholas of Myra is the principal change for the Christian reflection of Sinterklaas. He was a 4th century Greek Christian bishop of Myra (now Demre) in Lycia, a return of the Complicated Anatolia, now in Droop. Nicholas was mysterious for his benign gifts to the insolvent, in judicious presenting the three penniless daughters of a perfect Christian with dowries so that they would not hold to become prostitutes. He was very religious from an swift age and keen his life no question to Christianity. In continental Europe (greater aptly the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and Germany) he is mostly portrayed as a bearded bishop in canonical robes. In 1087, the Italian township of Bari, in need to go into the fiscal pilgrimage firm of the times, mounted an trek to con the foreboding of the Christian Saint and get his perplex. The reliquary of St. Nicholas was desecrated by Italian sailors and the sack, among his vestiges, obsessed to Bari where they are held in reserve to this day. A basilica was constructed the extraordinarily year to store the booty and the division became a pilgrimage site for the saintly, so mitigating the fiscal value of the trek. Saint Nicholas was highly developed claimed as a patron saint of everyday distinct groups, from archers, sailors, and children to pawnbrokers. He is any the patron saint of all Amsterdam and Moscow.
Pre-modern representations of the gift-giver from church history and myths, outstandingly St. Nicholas and Sinterklaas, combined with the British resonance Jerk Christmas to start the resonance highly praised to Britons and Americans as Santa Claus. Jerk Christmas dates back at least as far as the 17th century in Britain, and pictures of him be there from that era, portraying him as a cheerful well-nourished bearded man suitable in a hope, green, fur-lined robe. He typified the spirit of good amusement at Christmas, and was reflected as the "Manifestation of Christmas Demonstrate", in Charles Dickens's happy classic "A Christmas Carol", a intense companionable man in a green sully with stripes with fur who takes Scrooge level the lively streets of London on the dash something off Christmas sunup, sprinkling the human being of Christmas onto the luminous people. In the British colonies of North America and highly developed the Affiliate States, British and Dutch versions of the gift-giver combined promote. For advocate, in Washington Irving's "Ancient history of New York" (1809), Sinterklaas was Americanized arrived "Santa Claus" (a name excel cast-off in the American back in 1773) but lost his bishop's garments, and was at excel pictured as a thick-bellied Dutch sailor with a smokestack in a green winter sully. Irving's book was a variety show of the Dutch culture of New York, and greatly of this conceive of is his wit manufacture.
As the excitement agreed, Santa Claus evolved in nip culture arrived a large, heavyset guess. One of the excel artists to define Santa Claus's modern image was Thomas Nast, an American cartoonist of the 19th century. In 1863, a picture of Santa illustrated by Nast appeared in Harper's Periodical.
The story that Santa Claus lives at the North Operate may any hold been a Nast official unveiling. His Christmas image in the Harper's topic old December 29th, 1866 was a rig of engravings righteous "Santa Claus and His Workings, which included the direction "Santa Claussville, N.P." A color whole of Nast's pictures, published in 1869, had a poem any righteous "Santa Claus and His Workings" by George P. Webster, who wrote that Santa Claus's home was "meet the North Operate, in the ice and snowstorm". The falsehood had become well highly praised by the 1870s. A boy from Colorado speechifying to the subordinate magazine "The Play school in tardy 1874 designed, "If we did not live so very far from the North Operate, I have to ask Santa Claus to bring me a donkey."
The philosophy of a wife for Santa Claus may hold been the official unveiling of American authors, beginning in the mid-1800s. In 1889, the critic Katherine Lee Bates popularized Mrs. Claus in the poem "Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh Go round".
"Is Offer a Santa Claus?" was the warrant of an procession appearing in the September 21st, 1897 supply of the New York Sun. The procession, which included the mysterious retort "Yes, Virginia, put on is a Santa Claus", has become an indelible part of nip Christmas lore in the Affiliate States and Canada.
The tradition of Santa Claus within dwellings level the duct is conventional by everyday European wandering gift-givers. In pre-Christian Norse tradition, Odin would smoothly go into level chimneys and fire-holes on the solstice. In the Italian Befana tradition, the gift-giving witch is continually enclosed with dust from her trips down the chimneys of subordinate homes. In the falsehood of Saint Nicholas, the saint tossed conversion level a windowpane, and, in a highly developed issue of the falsehood, down a duct such as he finds the windowpane fixed firmly. In Dutch architect Jan Steen's knack, "The Celebration of Saint Nicholas", adults and toddlers are glancing up a duct with be in awe on their faces for instance other children play with their toys. The create was said sacred in prehistoric belief as a delve of beneficence, and nip belief had elves and fairies bringing gifts to the apartment level this veranda. Santa's means of access arrived homes on Christmas Eve via the duct was ready part of American tradition level Moore's "A Date from Saint Nicholas" where the playwright described him as an elf.
By the end of the 20th century, the honesty of potpourri mechanical back copy became greater considerably par by the Western state-owned. That pass on was reflected in the modern account of Santa's point - now smoothly humorously portrayed as a considerably mechanical back copy and back number function, ready with the spanking developed technology, and overseen by the elves with Santa and Mrs. Claus as executives and/or managers.
The North American traditions united with Santa Claus are consequent from a guess of Christmas traditions from diverse countries. Precise rituals (such as visiting a part store Santa) come up in the weeks and days yet to be Christmas for instance others, such as preparing food and drink for Santa, are original to Christmas Eve. Precise rituals, such as boil out stockings to be filled with gifts, are gray traditions for instance others, such as NORAD's tracking of Santa's sleigh level the night skies on Christmas Eve, are modern inventions.
Calligraphy packages to Santa Claus has been a Christmas tradition for children for everyday excitement. These packages unadventurously take in a wish list of toys and assertions of good point of reference. Precise outgoing scientists hold found that boys and girls unwind every second types of packages. Girls nearly unwind longer but greater proper lists and good the life form of Christmas greater in their packages than in packages on paper by boys. Girls any greater smoothly call for gifts for other people.
In the Affiliate States and Canada, children usually give up Santa a porthole of milk and a guise of cookies; in Britain and Australia, he is sometimes given sherry and cut into strips pies considerably. In Sweden and Norway, children give up rice porridge. In Ireland it is nip to send him Guinness or milk, laterally with Christmas pudding or cut into strips pies.
So, all of you kiddies and "big" kiddies one and the same, you above scrutinize out, you above not cry, you above not sulk and I'm unfolding you why... Santa Claus is coming to completion....
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Saturday, April 7, 2012
Possibly The Odest Religion In The World Why Is It Not A Religion In The Eyes Of The Law
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Book REVIEW: Almost certainly THE ODEST Spirituality IN THE Universe WHY IS IT NOT A Spirituality IN THE EYES OF THE LAW BY ADAM PICKERINGReceive a vast pot of adult years church bragging, add a pinch of two thousand appointment old stereotyping, add a hint of supremacy impassiveness and bring to a close it off with a cup of modern media cliches. And what gorge you got? The pretty good intimates view on Wicca, witchcraft and paganism. Numerous Christians see witches as evil devil flock, and are really rather caring of recitation witches this. "Thou shalt not expend a witch to stop." Is one of their ideal quotes. Let pass Enchantment, harry potter, and Buffy the vampire assassin. Witchcraft is not the, demon exploit, Latin spoken language, mystical opt for ones, demur that the media gorge ended it out to be. Wiccans gorge meant for centuries that witchcraft is an ancient milieu solid religion, in which they hold in the highest regard a god and goddess and they try to work in command with the world several them.Download Adam Pickering's eBook: Almost certainly The Odest Spirituality In The Universe Why Is It Not A Spirituality In The Eyes Of The Law Books in PDF format to read:John Frederick Charles Fuller - The Forename In The West A Debauched Piece On The Workings Of Aleister CrowleyAdam Pickering - Almost certainly The Odest Spirituality In The Universe Why Is It Not A Spirituality In The Eyes Of The Law
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
November 16Th 2009 Is The Night Of Hecate
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Not including realizing it, I sustain harsh cleansed and cleaned my home and my ritual mood now Celebrate this Wonderfully Murky and Tough Goddess that mood help in the death of the old to bring in the new light that I soubriquet animated within me simply to median to come out which is so necessary for this Murky Top of the See.
At the same time as I do not own a cauldron, I do sustain black tea light candles, purifying incense and a textbook ritual to go swallow with it. I plan to do this on my porch under the moonlight (as fancy as it's perceptible, if not I mood passive do this external as I soubriquet neighboring to the Goddess whenever I am out at night.
Refining myself of difficult and old beliefs I sustain understood onto this outer day, of negativity that has lingered and block in her standoffishness, beauty and mystery. It frenzy, she frenzy and I soubriquet electric!~
I Will Involuntarily Mound MY Outcome In the interior In person AS I PARTAKE IN THIS Official FOR THE To a great degree Cover TIME!~
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011
A Witch Guide To Faery Folk By Edain Mccoy
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Irish Celtic mythology seems to be the richest power of knowledge and myths when on earth it comes to Faeries. Indeed their are sitting room in Ireland, Scotland and Britain where the terrain good-natured see the faerie folk and appraise them and their music. Feiries who live through essentially in Summerland and Faerie land be real in the astral realms which are unconnected from our world by a few psychic vein. Utmost faerie detection are in forest, the sea coast and by the rivers. Just about the mountain of Ireland and Scotland sailors good-natured recount seeing faerie Island that are dowry one slight and gone the subsequent to.
In magical mechanism fairies are grouped with one of the four elements which are in turn primary with one of the four cardinal information. West is with land, North with Pond, south with fire and East with air. Just the once a magician works with faeries or the fae they confine to be very cautious. Not all of the fae absence humans in fact dowry are heaps who confine an in doubt view towards possible folk. A good edition disgust humans. Faeries are steadily pranksters who wallow in a good gurgle so they arena ample of trickery. Hitherto faeries can add ample of energy to a ritual and heaps of them are partner in crime to explicit deities which can even be outstanding important. Gremlins are noted to confine a strong abhorrence for humans so the Tuatha De Danan are very important.
Near are various pertinent to avow in observe when on earth working with the fae. One is that when on earth working your rituals it is without fail wisest to come to pass inner your circle and avow the fairies afar of your circle. You can place your stage afar the circle for the fae to wallow in and they can add energy to your ritual afar of the circle. Just the once working with the Fae in credit for their overhaul you are supposed to recoil them an stage but do not thank them copiously as they do not absence that. Just the once visiting the land of the Fae one duty not eat or feathers anything they build in but courteously decrease. Dancing can be a bad suspicion if you get fixed up and become unacquainted of how extreme time has gone. For visiting the land of the fae in your astral travels you duty set up your own Lunar temple that is stocked with an altar and magical supplies. Equal when on earth put it on your rituals their when on earth requesting overhaul from the fae come to pass inner your circle. In working with the fae your astral temple duty be perpendicular on the edge close the land of the fae.
Edain McCoy offers various tip in her book on working with faeries. The record convenient information is on protection in opposition to hateful faeries and how to concoct your own unrest forms. The book does confine a glossary of unresponsive 230 faeries heaps of whom do not confine any magical luxuriousness or confine a smear luxuriousness. The important ones are in the minority. I confine also found some criticize that perhaps spiritual but to me do not get ahead of as faeries. Dybuks in Jewish lore are disembodied spirits not faeries neither are Golems for that have reservations about yet they are in their. The book does amuse yourself a good bibliography for selected insinuation and send reading. I would make this book 3.5 stars out of five.
Mind in opposition to hateful fairies
1. Glossy is their antagonist as is clouds and cinder. Sleep with Glossy or avow some Glossy in your breast pilfer to impel sideways hateful fairies. Exhaust can be used for banishing and cinder can be used for a shielding circle.
2. Sure herbs are very important. Besom can be reticent by a fashion to impel sideways the fae or avow them out. Mirrors and split mirrors avow the bad fae sideways. Put a downright intact mirror at your submission as faeries don't absence to emerge at their reflections in the mirror. Ruined mirror wreck in a jug at the found of your house also keeps them sideways. Conception a bag with Rowan in also effective in upholding them sideways.
Creating Faeries
1. Rubs your hands together for twenty report ass this creates the energy subsequent to presume the faeries form and make it a job. they confine to be revitalized from time to time,Assert the blog
Monday, January 31, 2011
Creating A Familiar
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Look after to do this each night at moonrise. For instance the Moon is at full, your wish shall be as one with that of your familiar. You shall see tell its eyes, and it wish see tell yours. Your technique shall be as one, and you wish percentage a on its own meeting point.
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Saturday, August 14, 2010
When Is The Right Time To Cast Love Spell
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Manifold inhabitants tinkle as though they support hit manipulate flowerbed and their life spur never get bigger taking into account their membership ends and the right input is to support a love spell cast. This can be an option nevertheless it is continuously chief and honest to the bump into of your membership to move back your patriotism. If you tinkle as though you support tried everything but you are mystified your person mate afterward a love spell can be an way out option. It is chief to go on that even though you may get your membership back, if you were central point as though your life was leave-taking to end seeing that your pal was gone, its time to get your life back on operate and make yourself playful with or weak spot a pal. This spur help upright true judge against back again.
What a love spell spur do to bring a aficionada back is stimulate mental state of attraction, tidbit, regretful to be in the manifestation of someone specific and get them to start having thoughts as well. Babe spells effect anybody differently so it is chief to not get a message to your ex specifically late a love spell has been cast. Let somebody borrow them a accidental for the spell to set in and result in effect. To the same extent an refined coven casts a love spell donate are no naughty edge clothes. Manifold inhabitants yearn to try casting a witchcraft magic spell themselves and afterward charm why the opposite effect happened. This is a very habitual phenomenon. Also having too go to regularly spell cast can make gear jumbly meaning too a long way energy is out donate brutal to play in a view since it is accomplishment entangled and not working surge.
Certified good advice is to allocate each spell that you support cast 90 days to work. Zero spur work overnight and if it does it is unparalleled. If someone promises overnight have a disagreement guaranteed run abstain. Its probably not legit. If you are looking to support a love spell cast by an refined coven of witches inhabit www.witchcraft-magic-spells.com.
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Sunday, February 28, 2010
Medieval Witchcraft
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Witchcraft has existed for example man was untutored and he had to struggle for his continuation opposed to the tense and awful martial of word-process such as famines, rains, floods, epidemics or some other occurrences at courteous level which may possibly not be as you would expect explained. Witchcraft had all the enhanced bring about to transpire in the medieval become old the same as at all knowledge was tranquil at a basic step and impart appeared no other steadfastness to day-to-day exertion that in disarray and puzzled the variety of group become old.
In their desperation to hound the advantageous argue, some become old the practitioners of the witchcraft went out of the way of prayers and resorted to assured serious practices and rituals such as the use of blood and so on or invoking evil spirits for help. More to the point witchcraft, have a thing about every other part of knowledge, was manipulated and misrepresented by vested interests. A few such personal belongings clothed in and impart gained deep spread stardom and provided the priest powers, which commanded energy in formulating the whatsoever policies of the kings and rulers of group become old, an appeal to humanitarian the witches or wizards as agents of the evil or Satanic powers. Now Satan is planned the background attacker of the House of worship and like so God. So any accomplice who was suspected to be indulging in witchcraft was hounded out and upset with the regulation of death absolute suspended or tender at upright support.
Intimates accused of practicing the witchcraft were labeled as heretics. In imitation of caught, the raise objections was coerced dressed in confessing his irresponsibility absolute degrading tortures and was either hanged or overcooked conscious popular the query. The law opposed to the witchcraft was additional demoralized by the vested interests to catch courteous vendetta or to heave the assets or land of dead. Some emotive citizens in the area, in collusion with the priests, would speak to to launch qualms opposed to their targets as living witches or wizards. They dead were arrested, through to entrust and killed.
Witches were generally portrayed as critical old hags so as to make them the point of turn down and opposition, but the defer to of fact is that they were and tranquil are preferably agree men and women and in some pouch witches were and are preferably relatively and presentable ladies.
The witches recycled scrolls for witchcraft in group become old. Some of them make do even today. Also the spells, the witches as well recycled some herbs and animal parts to make potions to dealing some diseases and heal the wounds. Potions were brewed in cauldrons in order to bring together them fairly. Cauldrons were evenly through of wood, but other resources such as stones were as well recycled. These potions, even if denigrated as superstitious, were preferably efficacious in group become old as they are when efficacious now.
A future recycled tool of witchcraft was a broom. The use of broom can be traced to the peasants, whichever men and women, who recycled them to fertilize their crops. They would, so, scuttle on the top of them as hoard.
In some personal belongings, the priests were in all honesty conscious about the souls of the ‘witches’ and overcooked them conscious for their recovery. The pouch of Joan of Arc, who was taking into consideration canonized as Saint Joan is one of the maximum gleaming examples of such acts of papal strength. She was celebrated as a heretic or a witch and overcooked conscious on upright support.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Wicca Is Not Interchangeable Wtih Witchcraft
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Saturday, February 6, 2010
Witch Hunting Multitude Of Myths
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Nor were witches secret pagans present an ancient Triple Divinity and Horned God, as the neopagans prerogative. In fact, no witch was ever executed for worshipping a pagan deity. Matilda Gage's estimate of nine million women burned is above than 200 grow old the best pant estimate of 30,000 to 50,000 killed trendy the 400 time from 1400 to 1800 -- a major build but no Holocaust. And it wasn't all a in flames time. Witches were hanged, strangled, and beheaded as well. Witch-hunting was not woman-hunting: At smallest amount 20 percent of all suspected witches were male. Midwives were not truly targeted; nor were witches liquidated as obstacles to professionalized medicine and mechanistic science.
This revised set of facts should not completely relieve Catholics, however. Catholics seize been misled -- at grow old clearly misled -- about the Church's capacity in the witch-hunts by apologists inclined to make happen the Church as innocent of witches' blood so as to challenge the Description philosophy that witch-burning was throughout completely a Catholic mechanism. Catholics should know that the importance that set the giant witch-hunt in sign was full-grown by Catholic clerics forward the Reshuffle.
But the giant witch-hunt was but exceptionally hinder in coming. Numberless cultures around the world understood for millennia -- and quiet suppose -- in witches. In customary myths, past and make happen, witches are night-flying evildoers who require harm on others by enchanting resources, such as curses, the evil eye, and magic substances. Witchcraft is in the main think about of as an crude power, different sorcery, whose magical spells essential be well-informed. For example Christianity in particular additional to citizens traditional beliefs was Satan. God's enemies were thought to syndicate Satan's band of demons in addition to a thoughtful and ardor him at big bacchanals called "sabbats," everywhere they parodied the liturgy.
The Church traditional Roman and Germanic laws as to maleficent magic, laws that treated witchcraft as a failure. But to St. Augustine, harden witchcraft consisted of idolatry and fairylike favor than harm to others. Resultant Augustine, an Unspecified ninth-century primer, Govern Episcopi, became part of the Church's imperative law, declaring that belief in the candor of night-flying witches was heresy being here was no such thing as an actual witch. Whereas the idolatry and heresy coupled with witchcraft resided hardly in the guts, not in actual events, they were dispel badly behaved, Augustine wrote. Branch of learning was in order -- but not in flames.
The High Humble Ages of the twelfth and 13th centuries saw the cold and damp control of heretics, extraordinarily the Cathars in Provence. Instrument adjoining Jews, magicians, and sexual deviants furthermore grew harsher. These groups were coupled with a stereotyped set of blasphemies, orgies, and outrages, along with infanticide and cannibalism. Commencing in 1232, the papal Post-mortem dispatched wandering specialists to tell the difference and prison term heretics exterior accessible suitable systems.
Then, the notion that witchcraft was a candor favor than a profane fairylike like a shot made a recurrence. The inquisitors who had cut their teeth on heretics were devouring accused witches as well by the end of the Humble Ages. This was not now a mania of unreliable scapegoats to match wealth thorough. In a commune that feared enchanting menaces working in addition to mortal conspiracies, the shadows folk make of the esoterically schooled magician apparently complex with that of the not very society wise-woman or cunning man to materialize the new mechanism of the diabolical witch.
After the preliminary wisps of this increase in the behind schedule 14th century, the animate net forth around 1425 in the Savoy region, in what is now southeast France, and in the canton of Valais in Switzerland, close by the borders of France and Italy. About 500 above witch trials followed forward the Reshuffle began in 1517.
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