Faerie Magick Discussions - Traveling within the World2024-03-29T07:56:51Zhttp://travelingwithintheworld.ning.com/group/faeriemagick/forum?feed=yes&xn_auth=noFaerie Potions by Kath Greentag:travelingwithintheworld.ning.com,2014-01-29:2185477:Topic:1964832014-01-29T22:46:35.743ZDept of PMM Artists & thingshttp://travelingwithintheworld.ning.com/profile/Artistsandthings
<p>Faerie Potions<br></br> <br></br> Faerie Fire Anointing Oil<br></br> Do Not Ingest!<br></br> <br></br> Ingredients:<br></br> <br></br> <br></br> 1 garnet<br></br> 1 dram almond oil<br></br> 1 dram dragon's blood<br></br> coriander seeds<br></br> <br></br> Warm all ingredients in an enamel pan on low heat. Allow to cool and place in a clear, white or aqua-coloured bottle.<br></br> <br></br> Source: Unknown<br></br> <br></br> Faerie Enchantment Oil<br></br> <br></br> <br></br> 10 Parts Rose Oil<br></br> 5 Parts Thyme Oil<br></br> 1 Part Evening Primrose Oil <br></br> <br></br> Source:…</p>
<p>Faerie Potions<br/> <br/> Faerie Fire Anointing Oil<br/> Do Not Ingest!<br/> <br/> Ingredients:<br/> <br/> <br/> 1 garnet<br/> 1 dram almond oil<br/> 1 dram dragon's blood<br/> coriander seeds<br/> <br/> Warm all ingredients in an enamel pan on low heat. Allow to cool and place in a clear, white or aqua-coloured bottle.<br/> <br/> Source: Unknown<br/> <br/> Faerie Enchantment Oil<br/> <br/> <br/> 10 Parts Rose Oil<br/> 5 Parts Thyme Oil<br/> 1 Part Evening Primrose Oil <br/> <br/> Source: Unknown<br/> <br/> Faery Magick Oil<br/> <br/> <br/> 1/4 Oz Almond Oil<br/> 11 Drops Violet Oil<br/> 10 Drops Gardenia Oil<br/> 7 Drops Lemon Grass Oil<br/> 7 Drops Lemon Oil<br/> 7 Drops Rose Geranium Oil<br/> 7 Drops Jasmine Oil<br/> 7 Drops Ylang Ylang Oil<br/> 5 Drops Lavender Oil<br/> Jasmine Flowers<br/> Violet Flowers<br/> Peridot<br/> Moonstone<br/> <br/> Useful for working with Faery Magick. Wear it on Midsummer's Eve to increase chances of Faery encounters.<br/> <br/> Source: Unknown<br/> <br/> Midsummer Night's Dream Incense<br/> <br/> 2 Tbsp Sandalwood<br/> 2 tsp Lavender<br/> 2 tsp Mugwort<br/> 2 tsp Chamomile<br/> 1 tsp Thyme<br/> 1 tsp Benzoin<br/> <br/> Source: Rowan Morgana<br/> <br/> Autumnal Faerie Mix Incense<br/> <br/> 1 oz. Juniper berries <br/> 1 oz. Rosemary needles <br/> 1 oz. Frankincense powder<br/> ½ oz. Valerian root <br/> 10 drops rosewood essential oil,<br/> 5 drops myrrh essential oil, <br/> 5 drops lavender essential oil. <br/> <br/> This makes a really intense, woodsy mix that appeals to those of the Fairy Kingdom. Place mixture, without grinding the mix, in an airtight glass jar, mixing very well. The longer it’s stored, the more it improves! Sprinkle carefully on a lit charcoal disc and enjoy. <br/> <br/> Source: Moonslipper<br/> <br/> Faerie Wine<br/> <br/> 1/2 cups of milk per serving<br/> 1 tsp. honey<br/> 1/8th tsp. vanilla extract<br/> cinnamon<br/> <br/> Warm milk, being careful not to boil. To each glass or mug add honey and<br/> vanilla. Sprinkle tops with cinnamon.<br/> <br/> source: unknown<br/> <br/> Faerie Dust Potion<br/> <br/> To draw out the bliss inherent in our nature, create your own "fairy<br/> dust." This potion may be used to anoint magickal tools, amulets and<br/> candles for spelling happiness. It also makes a wonderful gift.<br/> <br/> This special celebration of magick requires an extensive list of ingredients<br/> including:<br/> <br/> -A clear, pink, amethyst, or iridescent glass vial or bottle <br/> (Note: Hand-Blown Egyptian bottles are nice for this)<br/> -A small piece of polished rose quartz<br/> -Pieces of mica<br/> -A fresh flower blossom, small enough to fit in the opening of your chosen<br/> flask (pixie carnations and sweetheart rose buds are fitting choices, a<br/> small lavender bud is tiny, too.)<br/> -Charms of fairy, butterfly, star forms<br/> -Pink or rainbow-hued ribbon (holographic ribbon works nicely)<br/> -Small bells or a chiming sphere<br/> -A quartz or lead crystal point<br/> -A piece of parchment<br/> -Silver and gold ink<br/> -A pink candle<br/> -A small bottle of jojoba for the potion base<br/> -All or any of these oils to blend: Benzoin, Geranium, Jasmine, Neroli<br/> and Ylang-Ylang<br/> <br/> Listen for the sound of children's laughter as you pursue this quest, it<br/> is the most powerful fairy enchantment of all.<br/> <br/> During the waxing Moon, light the pink candle and set it to burn. Create<br/> a pleasing essential blend from the oils you have selected. Mix the<br/> blend with enough jojoba to fill your chosen vessel. Don't skimp. The<br/> essence should be strong. <br/> Crumble the mica into fine pieces. Add them to the<br/> jojoba. If you have chosen a clear vial or bottle, you may wish to give<br/> it a pale tint of pink. Tint the jojoba before mixing it with the<br/> essential oils. You may do this with a trace of red food coloring.<br/> <br/> Fill the vial with the jojoba, essential blend and mica particles. On<br/> the parchment, trace a circle with silver ink. Next draw four<br/> semi-circles, evenly spaced around, overlapping the first circle at the<br/> four cardinal points, to form four crescents, with the ends of the<br/> semi-circles pointing away from the center. This represents the full<br/> moon and her four quarters. It is recognized as the Icelandic Wishing Rune.<br/> <br/> Picture yourself in an enraptured state of bliss, surrounded by flowers.<br/> Your heart feels as light as a butterfly on the wing. With this feeling,<br/> draw in gold ink, the rune, "Wunjo. <br/> <br/> Roll the parchment tightly and seal it with a short tie of ribbon and a<br/> drop of pink wax. Add the following to your potion in this order: the<br/> rose quartz, the flower blossom and parchment scroll. Stopper the bottle<br/> and seal it with a generous amount of pink wax. You want to do this by<br/> melting a pool of wax in a container only slightly larger than the top<br/> of the bottle. Invert the bottle and fully immerse the area of the<br/> opening in the melted wax. You will need to work quickly, unless you<br/> have a brazier or something to keep it warm. (If you're using a bottle<br/> with a stopper, such as the Egyptian style bottles, just drop the wax<br/> evenly between the space of the stopper and the bottle.) Finish by tying<br/> with ribbon and fastening the charm(s), the crystal and the bells to the<br/> knot or bow.<br/> <br/> <br/> Source: Unknown</p> Faerie Loretag:travelingwithintheworld.ning.com,2014-01-29:2185477:Topic:1964812014-01-29T22:45:32.759ZDept of PMM Artists & thingshttp://travelingwithintheworld.ning.com/profile/Artistsandthings
<p><br></br> Faerie Realms<br></br> <br></br> Tir-Nan-Og – Celtic Land of the Faeries meaning “The Land of the Young” according to legend can be found across the sea, to the West. Tir-Nan-Og is a paradise of beauty, dance and song with trees always filled with fruit and flowers perpetually blooming.<br></br> <br></br> The Hollow Hills - Prehistoric earthen mounds found in Ireland.<br></br> <br></br> The Fairy City of Gorias – A City of Air and the East where an atmosphere of peace and tranquility pervades. Rectangular…</p>
<p><br/> Faerie Realms<br/> <br/> Tir-Nan-Og – Celtic Land of the Faeries meaning “The Land of the Young” according to legend can be found across the sea, to the West. Tir-Nan-Og is a paradise of beauty, dance and song with trees always filled with fruit and flowers perpetually blooming.<br/> <br/> The Hollow Hills - Prehistoric earthen mounds found in Ireland.<br/> <br/> The Fairy City of Gorias – A City of Air and the East where an atmosphere of peace and tranquility pervades. Rectangular white buildings have pennants streaming out and fluttering from the rooftops in the perpetual breeze. The Symbol of Gorias is a golden statue of a man holding a sword and a flower. The sword represents power of the intellect to cut through ignorance and the rose indicates that this is tempered by gentleness. Gorias teaches <br/> <br/> The Fairy City of Finias – A city of Fire and the South where the people are warm hearted. The light is perpetual, darkness never falls. The symbol of Finias is a staff planted in the floor which grows branches as you watch. Finias teaches imagination and intuition. <br/> <br/> The Fairy City of Murias – A City of Water and the West that stands on the shores of a western ocean. The symbol of Murias is a golden chalice. Murias teaches you to open your heart to your feelings and the feelings of others.<br/> <br/> The Fairy City of Falias – A City of Earth and the North where darkness pervades and no one lives. The symbol of Falias is a huge, ancient meteoric rock with subtle light playing around it. Falias teaches awareness of the earth and the ancientness of your soul.<br/> <br/> Faerie Rings – A circle of darker- colored grass caused by fungus and/or a circle of mushrooms. Any naturally occurring ring found in nature including crop circles, moss circles and trees may leave a circular clear patch of ground.<br/> <br/> Faerie Paths – Narrow trails, starting nowhere in particular and ending abruptly or going toward a stone or mound. <br/> <br/> Faerie Food and Drink <br/> <br/> Milk, honey cake, grain, wine<br/> <br/> <br/> Faerie Clothes<br/> <br/> Faerie Folk are very fussy about their clothing, preferring the beautiful and costly. If a Faerie is robbed of his clothing he is doomed to remain captive in the human world until he recovers it. Red and green are the favoured colors for faerie clothing symbolizing the power of Nature. Red is the color of blood and death, green is the color of vegetation.<br/> <br/> Human clothes can be used as a weapon to break Faerie Enchantment. <br/> •If you are being troubled by faeries while out walking take off your coat and turn it inside out, thus distracting the Faeries long enough to escape. <br/> •If Faeries are disturbing your sleep at night place your shoes by the bed with the toes pointing outward and put your socks beneath them.<br/> •A glove thrown into a Faerie Ring will stop all the revelry.<br/> <br/> Faerie Music and Language<br/> <br/> Faeries love music most of all and gifted musicians may be spirited away to Fairyland. There are pieces of music in existence that are said to be of Faerie origin such as Londonderry Air and the Fairy Dance of Scotland.<br/> <br/> Londonderry Air: The original music is the tune to the modern "Danny Boy<br/> <br/> Would God I were the tender apple blossom<br/> <br/> That floats and falls from off the twisted bough<br/> <br/> To lie and faint within your silken bosom<br/> <br/> Within your silken bosom as that does now.<br/> <br/> Or would I were a little burnish'd apple<br/> <br/> For you to pluck me, gliding by so cold<br/> <br/> While sun and shade you robe of lawn will dapple<br/> <br/> Your robe of lawn, and you hair's spun gold<br/> <br/> Yea, would to God I were among the roses<br/> <br/> That lean to kiss you as you float between<br/> <br/> While on the lowest branch a bud uncloses<br/> <br/> A bud uncloses, to touch you, queen.<br/> <br/> Nay, since you will not love, would I were growing<br/> <br/> A happy daisy, in the garden path<br/> <br/> That so your silver foot might press me going<br/> <br/> Might press me going even unto death.<br/> <br/> When you wander in the wild places of Nature listen for snatches of Faerie music wafted on the breeze.<br/> <br/> Faerie speech can be indistinct and incomprehensible, difficulty understanding Faeries may be caused by our rational mind getting in the way. Some Faeries speak wordlessly, and others us the language of the land to which they are attached. <br/> <br/> by Rowan Morgana<br/> <br/> Source: The Fairy Bible by Teresa Moorey<br/> <br/> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/l/0AQHx5Ly6/www.sacredhaven.ca/faerie-lore" style="color: #3b5998; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.sacredhaven.ca/faerie-lore</a></p> Faery lore, Magic and Enchantments... by Michelle Clarketag:travelingwithintheworld.ning.com,2014-01-14:2185477:Topic:1941922014-01-14T16:54:21.352ZDept of PMM Artists & thingshttp://travelingwithintheworld.ning.com/profile/Artistsandthings
<p><br></br> The Fae can be found in Mushroom circles in Pine forests, in Hollows of Oak trees and amongst the Acorns, Pine cones and Autumn leaves. Milkweed pods are sure to lead you to the wee ones. Dew drops, primroses, running streams are regular homes for the Fae & Gnome. Here You will find photos of secret Faery homes which prove that Fae DO exist. as well as enchantments to summon Gnomes, Fae and Undines, and gain their favor. Tread lightly as you walk these pages, you NEVER know what…</p>
<p><br/> The Fae can be found in Mushroom circles in Pine forests, in Hollows of Oak trees and amongst the Acorns, Pine cones and Autumn leaves. Milkweed pods are sure to lead you to the wee ones. Dew drops, primroses, running streams are regular homes for the Fae & Gnome. Here You will find photos of secret Faery homes which prove that Fae DO exist. as well as enchantments to summon Gnomes, Fae and Undines, and gain their favor. Tread lightly as you walk these pages, you NEVER know what you may find. Some of the info contained here will help in your search for the Fae, however you MUST believe Faery's exist with your whole heart.<br/> <br/> <br/> *A ELFYNTODD DWYR SINDDYN DUW <br/> CERRIG YR FFERLLURIG NWYN;<br/> OS SYRIAETH ECH SAFFAER TU<br/> FEWR ECHLYN MOR, NECROMBOR LLUN*<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> Dusk<br/> <br/> At a time that is not a time,<br/> in a place that is not a place,<br/> on a day that is not a day...<br/> <br/> A Recipe to See the Fae<br/> <br/> On a Dawn morn or dusk eve, find a special bottle, a pretty one the Fae would like that is.<br/> And pour into it <br/> 1 cup gathered spring or rain water<br/> 1 teaspoon of Pink Rose petals<br/> 1/2 teaspoon Lavender flowers<br/> Add 3 Quartz crystals<br/> Add 3 Amethyst Chips<br/> 1 pinch of Faery sugar (see recipe below)<br/> Nine inch piece of pink ribbon<br/> <br/> Now hide this away in a dark cool place for three days. On the third day, again at dawn or dusk, in a place you think you might spot the Fae, like an Oak tree, backyard or mushroom patch in the forest. Even a potted plant, herb or Flower will do. Tie a nine inch piece of Pink ribbon arond bottle neck. Next, close your eyes and sprinkle 9 drops over each eyelid of your 'Faery Potion Water', careful not to get it IN your eyes! Next recite this Faery incantation and watch for the Fae.<br/> <br/> 'Ribbon of pink, I just might think.<br/> I would like to see the Fae today. <br/> Special sight of Faery's flight, <br/> Send to me the way today. <br/> A sprinkle here a sprinkle there, <br/> A secret spell I say today. <br/> Wispy wings and little things, <br/> Are what I�d like to see today.'<br/> PLEASE note this may need to be repeated to see the Fae, as they are VERY cautious little creatures!<br/> ~ Written by Barbara Morris 2ooo - 2oo7<br/> <br/> Faery Sugar<br/> <br/> 3 cups fine white sugar<br/> 1 tablespoon Vanilla extract (the good stuff)<br/> 1/8 teaspoon red food coloring<br/> Glass container<br/> Lay sugar on wax paper & sprinkle on the Vanilla; <br/> stir into the sugar till all mixed in.<br/> Next sprinkle on the red food coloring and incorporate in till sugar turns 'Faery pink'. <br/> Save in glass container, you have labeled 'Faery Sugar'; <br/> Now use this special treat in the recipe above <br/> & for Faery cookies, cakes and offerings to the Fae. <br/> You can eat some your self, but remember the recipe is a secret!<br/> <br/> ~ Written by Barbara Morris 2ooo-2o10<br/> <br/> The Flowers<br/> <br/> "All the names I know from nurse:<br/> Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,<br/> Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,<br/> And the Lady Hollyhock.<br/> Fairy places, fairy things,<br/> Fairy woods where the wild bee wings,<br/> Tiny trees for tiny dames - <br/> These must all be fairy names!<br/> <br/> Tiny woods below whose boughs<br/> Shady fairies weave a house;<br/> Tiny treetops, rose or thyme,<br/> Where the braver fairies climb!<br/> <br/> Fair are grownup people's trees,<br/> But the fairest woods are these;<br/> Where, if I were not so tall,<br/> I should live for good and all."<br/> <br/> ~ Robert Louis Stevenson<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> The Oak leaf Fairy Spell<br/> <br/> If a maid that is deep in love will go with her suitor to a lonely place in the meadows<br/> or the woods, or to the moors, and place within her own and her lover's shoe a single oakleaf;<br/> and if they both will wait there and contemplate their love, and speak it to one another as<br/> evening falls and the stars come out, they will, if their patience is good,<br/> behold the fairy host as they come to gambol and sport in the wilds.<br/> <br/> The four leaf clover spell<br/> <br/> If a maid will slip a four~leaf clover into her left shoe,<br/> and tie a garland of myrtle and clover around her brow,<br/> she will see the fairies as the moon comes up.<br/> <br/> ~ by Claire Nahmad<br/> <br/> Faerie Magic<br/> <br/> Fairies and Pixies, elves and gnomes.<br/> Spinning some magic,spells for our homes.<br/> Their wishes are happy, of joys to share.<br/> Join in their revelry, if only you dare.<br/> Carefree of spirit, their happiness impart<br/> Sending you Magick, to store in your heart.<br/> <br/> ~ Unknown<br/> <br/> Another New Gnome spotting, Gnome is circled in white and then shown close up. This creature was found in the deep woods of Maine in an amazing Mushroom circle, I felt something scramble over my toes, when I looked down it was hiding behind a leaf as I snapped this pic. He was so wild it looked like a LEAF but it was gray blue with eyes. I left an offering of granola for my strange firend, who I belive laughed as I turned to leave. It was a very strange encounter. Later that day I kept finding money all around, not a huge amount, but silver dollars kept appearing in my pockets. It was such an amazing & magical experience.<br/> <br/> See pic below<br/> <br/> Fairy Trees, if you please...<br/> <br/> * Elder *<br/> <br/> Elder is said to offer protection to the faeries from negative spirits.<br/> * Hawthorn *<br/> <br/> Hawthorn, also known as Witches' Tree, is one part of the sacred triad of trees that are said to be sacred to the Faery. Oak, Ash, and Thorn, when growing naturally together, create a place where it is easy to see the Fey. Hawthorns were once believed to be the transformed bodies of Witches, who had shapeshifted into tree form. It is more likely that the spirit seen in the Hawthorn was that of a dryad or tree faery.<br/> <br/> * Oak *<br/> <br/> Legend tells us that "Faery folks are in the oaks". Oak trees are believed to provide safe havens and homes for many varieties of faery.<br/> <br/> * Apple *<br/> <br/> The bark of apple trees or the fruits themselves have the power to transport a true-hearted seeker to the Otherworld. Burn the bark as an offering to the Good Folk on Midsummer's night. Also used in faery love spells. Cut an apple open to reveal the five pointed natural star.<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> Jasmine Aura<br/> <br/> This is a picture of my Jasmine plant, JUST as it came back from the photo shop. NO effects are added, it seems there is a "aura" surrounding the flower I am holding, OR could it be the energy of a Flower Faery? AMAZING isn't it? This is one of my favorite plants, the tiny white flowers hold the MOST bewitching fragrance. I use the flowers in magical workings with the Fae.<br/> <br/> Fairy Herbs & Flowers<br/> <br/> * Bluebell's *<br/> <br/> Said to attract faeries to dance in your garden. On Beltane eve, make an ankle braclet of "Bluebells" and "jingle" bells to attract helpful fae folk to you.<br/> <br/> * Clover *<br/> <br/> A sacred faery plant, clovers of all kinds will attract them. Lay seven grains of wheat on a four-leafed clover to see the Faery.<br/> <br/> * Elderberry *<br/> <br/> Used to make Fairy wine, these berries can be burned on a fire to invite the Good Folk to a gathering.<br/> Make a homemade brew of Elderberry Wine and you are sure to have some thirsty visitors. It is said that if a human drinks the wine, she will be able to see the Faery. If a human should drink Elderberry wine from the same goblet as a Faery being, he will be able to see them forever after.<br/> <br/> * Elecampagne *<br/> <br/> Also known as Elfswort. This root can be scattered around the home to attract the Sidhe. It can be added to any magick or spell to invoke Faery blessing.<br/> <br/> * Foxglove *<br/> <br/> The source of the modern heart drug Digitalis, Foxglove can have seriously dangerous results if taken internally. DO NOT INGEST!! <br/> Instead, plant Foxglove near your front door to invite the Faery in. Put a dried sprig of Foxglove in a talisman to keep you surrounded in Faery light.<br/> <br/> * Heather *<br/> <br/> Heather is said to ignite faery passions and open portals between their world and our own. Make an offering of Heather on "Beltane" eve to attract good fae to your garden<br/> <br/> * Lilac *<br/> <br/> The sweet scent is said to draw Fae spirits to your garden. Lilac and primroses for midsummers eve, will please the Fae.<br/> <br/> * Mistletoe *<br/> <br/> The most sacred herb of the Druids. Mistletoe is a magical activator. In Fairy spells, use a dash of Mistletoe taken on Summer Solstice to empower your workings with Fairy magic.<br/> <br/> * Milkweed *<br/> <br/> Both Monarch butterflies and fairies like milkweed. If Milkweed is planted in a Witches garden, the fey will always be in the area. The silky tassels of the Milkweed pods can be added to a dream pillow to not only make it softer but also to make you dream of fairies. In the Autumn when the pods are bursting and the fluffy seeds are flying across the fields, a wish is granted for each seed that can be caught and then released again.<br/> <br/> * Peony *<br/> <br/> Peony seeds were once used to protect children from faeries. A garland of the seeds were placed around the child's neck to keep them safe from a fairy kidnapping. In this day and age, with fairy contact so drastically diminished, I doubt that anyone would want to don this faery banishing herb unless they were living smack dab in the middle of a circle of crazed Fae!!<br/> <br/> * Poppies *<br/> <br/> Said to invoke the faery into your dreams Make a dream pillow of fresh poppies to entice the fae to your dreams.<br/> <br/> * Primrose *<br/> <br/> When planted in a garden or hung dried on the front door, primroses will attract the company of Faeries. If you have them growing under your care, do not let them die! The Fairy will be deeply offended by your carelessness. Primroses are great in container gardens. Tie a pink ribbon around your container of Primroses while chanting;<br/> "Sacred roses, hear my cry<br/> for your protection, this I tie"<br/> <br/> * Roses *<br/> <br/> Roses attract the Fairy to a garden. Their sweet scent will lure elemental spirits to take up residence close by. Roses can be used in Fairy love spells. When performing the spell, sprinkle rose petals under your feet and dance softly upon them while asking the Fairy for their blessing on your magick.<br/> <br/> Roses are loved by the fey so you can plant Roses in your garden to attract fairies. Wild Roses are best for this purpose and you need to say the following spell as you plant your baby Rose bush:<br/> <br/> "I ask a fairy from the wild,<br/> To come and tend this wee rose-child.<br/> A babe of air she thrives today,<br/> Root her soul in the Goddesses' clay.<br/> Fairies make this twig your bower,<br/> By your magic shall time see her flower!"<br/> <br/> * Thyme *<br/> <br/> Wearing thyme will increase your ability to see the Sidhe. Sprinkle it at the base of your door, and on window sills to invite the Fairy to enter your home.<br/> <br/> Source:Moonsmuses.com<a href="https://www.facebook.com/n/?photo.php&fbid=10202316359943995&set=gm.444663018966831&type=1&relevant_count=1&aref=199516204&medium=email&mid=93&n_m=travelerinbdfsm%40hotmail.com" style="color: #3b5998; text-decoration: none; display: block; line-height: 0; border: 1px #CCCCCC solid; padding: 3px;" class="ecxthumb c_nobdr t_prs" target="_blank"><img class="img" src="https://fbcdn-photos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/7551_10202316359943995_1839069235_s.jpg" style="width: 90px;" alt="" width="90"/></a></p> Fairy Lore of the Isle of Skye By Carolyn Emericktag:travelingwithintheworld.ning.com,2014-01-06:2185477:Topic:1936142014-01-06T21:09:59.563ZDept of PMM Artists & thingshttp://travelingwithintheworld.ning.com/profile/Artistsandthings
<p><em>Celtic Guide</em>, Vol.3:1 (2014)</p>
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<p>Introduction: For many hundreds of years Skye remained an island isolated from the rest of Scotland. It did not exist in a complete vacuum, as it was settled by both Celts and Norse, and probably by the Picts before them. There were always comings and goings by way of ships and boats from the mainland…</p>
<p><em>Celtic Guide</em>, Vol.3:1 (2014)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/05/fairy-lore-of-the-isle-of-skye/isle-of-skye/" rel="attachment wp-att-46371"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-46371" alt="Isle of Skye from a 17th century map" src="http://www.medievalists.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Isle-of-skye-639x500.jpg" height="485" width="620"/></a></p>
<p>Introduction: For many hundreds of years Skye remained an island isolated from the rest of Scotland. It did not exist in a complete vacuum, as it was settled by both Celts and Norse, and probably by the Picts before them. There were always comings and goings by way of ships and boats from the mainland and abroad. Due to this sea access, Skye became a Viking hot spot, like so many of the other Scottish Isles. Its isolation became more pronounced toward the Industrial Revolution. As mechanized farming equipment, railroads, and eventually motorways became the norm across mainland Britain, residents of Skye continued using traditional farming methods and modes of transport. It is no wonder, then, that fairy lore lingered on after it had begun to erode elsewhere.</p>
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<p>Life moved at a slower pace in Skye, and stories of fairies continued to be passed on orally. Storytelling is, after all, a form of entertainment that comes with no technology necessary. Author Mary Julia MacCulloch recorded some folklore during her time in Skye, which was published in the journal Folklore in 1922. She says that nearly all of her stories were collected in and around the village of Portree. Yet, when it comes to Skye, the location of her interviews made little difference. She explains that the island was a tight knit community, and the inhabitants were a hardy breed of folk. It was not uncommon to see an elderly woman walking twenty-six miles just to attend mass. Many inhabitants belonged to parishes at distances quite far from where they lived. So, it seems that these people, who were so used to hard work, thought nothing of traversing their island on foot. As such, stories would have travelled throughout the island with ease.</p>
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<p>The seven-pointed star (or, alternately, septagram or heptagram) has accumulated many levels of meaning over the centuries. One of the oldest recorded meanings given to this star may be found within <a href="http://www.llewellyn.com/encyclopedia/term/kabbalah">Kabbalistic</a> tradition, where it represents the sphere of Venus and the power of love. It is also found within Christian tradition as a symbol of protection, the seven points representing the perfection of God and the seven days of…</p>
<p>The seven-pointed star (or, alternately, septagram or heptagram) has accumulated many levels of meaning over the centuries. One of the oldest recorded meanings given to this star may be found within <a href="http://www.llewellyn.com/encyclopedia/term/kabbalah">Kabbalistic</a> tradition, where it represents the sphere of Venus and the power of love. It is also found within Christian tradition as a symbol of protection, the seven points representing the perfection of God and the seven days of creation. This resonance with the days of the week carries through into its use as a planetary symbol, as each point not only represents one of the traditional "seven wandering stars," but also the corresponding days of the week, (as well as other magical <a href="http://www.llewellyn.com/encyclopedia/term/correspondences">correspondences</a> that come under the influence of the planets). The 7/3 septagram (the "3" indicates the distance between points) is a common sight within <a href="http://www.llewellyn.com/encyclopedia/term/neo-paganism">neo-paganism</a>, where it is known as the "Elven" or "Faery" star. However, this is a surprisingly recent addition to this symbol's catalog of meanings, having only risen to prominence with the appearance of the "Otherkin" movement in the 1990s.</p>
<p>The very first use of the Septagram as the "Elven Star" can be traced to a group in San Francisco during the 1980s called, "The Elf-Queen's Daughters." Although they adopted this strongly feminist title, the group consisted of both men and women who believed themselves to be incarnated elven spirits in human form, sent to bring about an acceleration of consciousness and a peaceful paradise on Earth. Over time, their work and influence spread, with many taking inspiration from the idea of otherworldly spirits being born into human form to come out of the closet themselves. Not only did we find that there were elves in human form walking the earth, but also other kinds of fae, mer-folk, dragons, angels, demons, and earthly creatures such as wolves. With the spreading of the "Otherkin" movement came the wider usage of the Septagram as the "elven star" as well as a symbol for otherkin nature in general.</p>
<p>As the popularity of the symbol spread, more meanings were attributed to it, including a loose and often individual assignation of the seven directions—North, South, East, West, Above, Below, and Within—and similar creative and <a href="http://www.llewellyn.com/encyclopedia/term/elements">elemental</a> systems that appear to be inspired by the qualities of the <a href="http://www.llewellyn.com/encyclopedia/term/pentagram">pentagram</a> as used within <a href="http://www.llewellyn.com/encyclopedia/term/wicca">Wicca</a> but with an extra Faery flavor. When I created my <em>Tarot of the Sidhe</em> (Schiffer Books, 2011), in 2005/6, I was also inspired to create my own meanings for the points of the elven star, based on the seven directions, with the additional layer of Sun (Within), Moon (Below), and Stars (above), for a Tarot <a href="http://www.llewellyn.com/encyclopedia/term/spread">spread</a> designed to reveal the state of the whole self. When I came to start writing my latest book, <em><a href="http://www.llewellyn.com/product.php?ean=9780738731339&utm_source=llewellynjournal&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=llewellynjournal" target="new">Faery Craft</a></em> (Llewellyn, October 2012), I returned to this same version of the septagram when I realized that I needed a strong faery-based magical structure to hang the work on. With the rationale that no one could fault me for making up my own use for the symbol, as it already had evolved and been tweaked for individual use so much in recent years, I added yet another layer of meaning to the seven points. The "Faery Craft Septagram," as I named it, also represents seven essential qualities, corresponding to the seven directions, that are needed for faery work. The book takes a quality for each chapter, ending with an eighth quality of "balance" that ties them all together.</p>
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<p>So what are these qualities? In the order in which they appear in the book, we start with "Knowledge," which is the quality that comes from the East and the element of <a href="http://www.llewellyn.com/encyclopedia/term/air">Air</a>. Knowledge provides the strong foundation that informs all the following work and is an indispensable check against a developing intuition, which is sometimes fallible.</p>
<p>Once this is in place we build upwards with "Connection," the Stars and the direction of Above. We are all connected, not only to each other but to the world, its inner light and the Universe as a whole. Learning to truly embrace and realize that without blocking awareness through an over-emphasis on the limited physical senses, i.e. being desperate to "see" faery beings, is crucial on a Faery path.</p>
<p>From here we can learn to "Trust," the quality given to the North and element of <a href="http://www.llewellyn.com/encyclopedia/term/earth">Earth</a>. Trust leads to co-operation with the inner realms, including establishing allies and places of power. To walk truly with our faery cousins we must learn not only to trust them, (being careful to establish who and what can be trusted), but to be worthy of their trust in return.</p>
<p>This trust is built upon using the fourth quality of "Honor," which coincides with the direction of Within and the Sun. Each of us carries an energetic sun at our center, the spiritual light through which we are judged by otherworldly beings. For this light to shine true and pure, and our energy to be untainted within both their realm and our own, we must live every breath with honor and learn how best to honor our alliances, friendships, and the land itself.</p>
<p>When these qualities are firmly established, then the world of "Magick," the fifth quality, related to the Moon and the direction of Below, will start to reveal itself. Through this art, and collaboration with established allies and co-walkers in the <a href="http://www.llewellyn.com/encyclopedia/term/otherworld">Otherworld</a>, we can start to implement positive change within ourselves, the microcosm, and thus affect the macrocosm, or outer world.</p>
<p>The indispensable sixth quality is "Joy," which comes from the West and the element of our emotions, <a href="http://www.llewellyn.com/encyclopedia/term/water">Water</a>. To feel true joy is to be open to the ecstasy of the Universe, to celebrate life, existence, and each other, even in adversity. When the previous qualities have been thoroughly explored, then the natural inclination of the pure spirit towards joy is unlocked. There is always beauty, true beauty, to be found in the world and beauty is the nourishment of joy.</p>
<p>Joy, and the culmination of the previous qualities, give birth to the seventh quality of "Inspiration." This encapsulates the ability not only to be inspired to action, but also to inspire others to action in return. Otherworldy forces may inspire, but so may people living and working within the world through their impulse to create. It is the passion, action, and transformative potential of inspiration that make its designation of the element of <a href="http://www.llewellyn.com/encyclopedia/term/fire">Fire</a> and the direction of South so appropriate.</p>
<p>Some time after finishing <em><a href="http://www.llewellyn.com/product.php?ean=9780738731339&utm_source=llewellynjournal&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=llewellynjournal" target="new">Faery Craft</a></em> I took another look at the "Faery Craft Septagram" and realized that the more traditional symbolism of the seven planets, and thus their accompanying correspondences, would also work as an extra layer of meaning along with the seven directions and Faery qualities (although not with the directions that they are assigned in Western Mystery Tradition, so in this way it is another original addition). The Sun (Honour) and Moon (Magick) remain as they are, but the other planets can be placed according to their inherent qualities: <a href="http://www.llewellyn.com/encyclopedia/term/mercury">Mercury</a> in the East works perfectly with the Element of Air and the quality of Knowledge. To choose a planet that could stand with "The Stars" for the direction of Above was less obvious, but as the "Morning Star" herself, <a href="http://www.llewellyn.com/encyclopedia/term/venus">Venus</a> fits this direction well. After all, she is the Goddess of love and matters of the heart, and it is through the heart that we experience "Connection." The stability and structure of <a href="http://www.llewellyn.com/encyclopedia/term/saturn">Saturn</a> make it the natural choice to lie in the North with the element of Earth and the quality of "Trust," which leaves jovial <a href="http://www.llewellyn.com/encyclopedia/term/jupiter">Jupiter</a> in its natural placement in the West with the quality of Joy and <a href="http://www.llewellyn.com/encyclopedia/term/mars">Mars</a> as the planet linked to Fire, the South, and the quality of Inspiration. This particularly emphasizes the need to act upon inspiration, as Mars is the planet of action.</p>
<p>This assignation of the planets to the seven directions and qualities gives us an extra tool to use in our Faery Craft—the planetary vowels. These vowels originate in the magick of Ancient Greece, and hence are represented by Greek letters. They are:</p>
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<tbody><tr><td>Mercury</td>
<td>(East, Air, Knowledge)</td>
<td><strong>Epsilon</strong></td>
<td>(Ehhh)</td>
<td>(as in b<em>e</em>t)</td>
</tr>
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</tr>
<tr><td>Venus</td>
<td>(Above, Stars, Connection)</td>
<td><strong>Éta</strong></td>
<td>(Aeeee)</td>
<td>(as in <em>aye</em>)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Saturn</td>
<td>(North, Earth, Trust)</td>
<td><strong>Omega</strong></td>
<td>(Ohhh)</td>
<td>(as in t<em>oe</em>)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Sun</td>
<td>(Within, Honor)</td>
<td><strong>Iota</strong></td>
<td>(iiiiiii)</td>
<td>(as in f<em>i</em>t)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Moon</td>
<td>(Below, Magick)</td>
<td><strong>Alpha</strong></td>
<td>(aaaaah)</td>
<td>(as in f<em>a</em>r)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Jupiter</td>
<td>(West, Water, Joy)</td>
<td><strong>Upsilon</strong></td>
<td>(uuuuh)</td>
<td>(as in c<em>u</em>t)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Mars</td>
<td>(South, Fire, Inspiration)</td>
<td><strong>Omicron</strong></td>
<td>(Oooo)</td>
<td>(as in r<em>o</em>t)</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>These sounds could be intoned as part of a <a href="http://www.llewellyn.com/encyclopedia/term/meditation">meditation</a> of magical working that involved the related quality, or as a focus to emphasize and unlock that quality, or they could all be strung together as a <a href="http://www.llewellyn.com/encyclopedia/term/mantra">mantra</a> to help bring all the qualities together in balance within the self. This might be a very effective method to use in parallel with the voice exercises featured in Chapter Two of <a href="http://www.llewellyn.com/product.php?ean=9780738731339&utm_source=llewellynjournal&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=llewellynjournal" target="new"><em>Faery Craft</em></a>.</p>
<p>It is my hope that this small article has shed some light on the use of this particular symbol within <em><a href="http://www.llewellyn.com/product.php?ean=9780738731339&utm_source=llewellynjournal&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=llewellynjournal" target="new">Faery Craft</a></em> and Faery work as a whole, and that perhaps you will be inspired to adopt these meanings yourself and work with them. Symbols are a language of their own, and as such, are constantly evolving. We should not be afraid of adapting their uses, so long as they do not contradict the essential nature and energy of the symbol itself. Once a book is written and in print, the work does not become static and fixed. If it did, whilst the words would remain, the life of the work would inevitably fade, as all things must when they resist change. Knowledge is a living, breathing changing thing, and when we embrace that, we may dance in the arms of wisdom.</p> Faeries and Love by Cassandra Easontag:travelingwithintheworld.ning.com,2013-12-13:2185477:Topic:1922722013-12-13T19:50:29.327ZDept of PMM Artists & thingshttp://travelingwithintheworld.ning.com/profile/Artistsandthings
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<p>The lore of the faery realm has, like the world of humans, traditionally focused on love—both tales of faery lovers and of fey beings who have fallen in love with mortals and sometimes tried to keep them forever in their faery kingdoms. These stories, whether perceived as pure lore or used as a way of explaining past mortal occurrences, tell the tales of true love, of faery temptresses, of lover's quarrels, and more.</p>
<p>Perhaps the most tragic fey…</p>
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<p>The lore of the faery realm has, like the world of humans, traditionally focused on love—both tales of faery lovers and of fey beings who have fallen in love with mortals and sometimes tried to keep them forever in their faery kingdoms. These stories, whether perceived as pure lore or used as a way of explaining past mortal occurrences, tell the tales of true love, of faery temptresses, of lover's quarrels, and more.</p>
<p>Perhaps the most tragic fey love story is that of the Celtic Cliodna of the Golden Hair. The daughter of Manannan mac Lir, who ruled over the sea, Cliodna was reputed to be the most beautiful woman in the world in mortal form. She loved the young mortal Ciabhan so much she left faeryland to live with him. However, while Ciabhan was hunting, Cliodna's father sent a faery minstrel to enchant her; she was carried back to fairyland in a magical sleep. She is still seen on seashores, either as a huge wave or a seabird, seeking her lost love; she is said to help parted mortal lovers to be reunited.</p>
<p>Below are two methods of invoking Cliodna if you are longing to be reunited with a parted love.</p>
<ul>
<li>Name your lost love as you hold matching shells, found on the shore or by a lake, tied together with seaweed or dried grasses. Cast your shells on the ninth wave as it moves into shore. Call your lost love's name nine times.</li>
<li>If you are landlocked, improvise with matching aquamarine crystals cast into any body of flowing water. Count nine before throwing the crystals into the water together. Call your lost love's name nine times.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Faery Marriages</strong><br/> Some tales of faery brides who married mortals seem to have earthly verification.</p>
<p>The Gwragedd Annwn are beautiful, Welsh, fair-haired faery women, the same size as humans, living in underwater palaces in lakes close to the Black Mountains. These lake maidens have, on occasion—according to folk lore of the area—taken human husbands, though they rarely stayed with them. Some local families still claim fey heritage.</p>
<p>One Lady of the Lake in Llyn y Fan Fach is, however, said to actually be the fairy ancestor of an unbroken line of Welsh healers and physicians. Even more unusual, this faery legend can be dated. Around 1230, records tell that a young farmer saw three beautiful women dancing on the shore. The most beautiful agreed to be his wife and her father, the king of the lake faeries, came from under the lake to bestow a dowry of fairy cattle. However, the faery king imposed a number of conditions on his daughter staying with her mortal husband. One condition was that she should never be touched with iron, another that she should not be made to go to church, and a third that if her husband struck her three times she and her dowry would return to the lake.</p>
<p>The couple had three sons, but the farmer broke his bargain by striking his faery wife three times (though according to less enlightened male folk tellers, the poor husband only tapped the faery lightly and for good reason). A faery bargain being a faery bargain, off went the cattle and faery maiden, though she did return to teach her sons knowledge of herbs and healing. They became the Physicians of Myddfai, healers to the Welsh kings. When they died, they left a medical treatise, copies of which exist today. I believe there is one in Cardiff Castle Museum.</p>
<p><strong>Brides in Faeryland</strong><br/> Mortal women who married to or were abducted by faeries seem to have had an even less than happy fate.</p>
<p>A woman on her wedding day or night was, according to Celtic myth, considered a great prize by the faeries as she was still a virgin but at peak fertility. For this reason, until medieval times, a woman would be accompanied to the church by identically dressed bridesmaids, so that watching faeries could not identify the true bride.</p>
<p>Some of these faery abductions may have had a less ethereal explanation. In parts of Europe during the Middle Ages, the local lord of the manor was unofficially allowed the use of his serfs' brides on their wedding night. Rape by wealthy landowners and their sons was a real threat for country women even in Victorian times, especially among servants in big houses. It could be that the story of a traditional return of the abducted bride from the faeries after a year and a day bearing a babe several months old was an acceptable way for a peasant husband not to appear cuckolded by the squire, if the unfortunate bride became pregnant during this abduction. A despoiled bride might have been placed in a distant workhouse during the pregnancy, with the collusion of the husband or a father in the case of an unmarried girl.</p>
<p>A typical bride abduction story made into a ballad was of Colin, a Scot, whose wife was taken by the faeries. His wife, it was said, returned invisibly each day to milk to cows and do the chores; only her singing could be heard. In other versions she returns after a year and a day with a baby. Was Colin keeping his bride locked away because he discovered on the wedding night she was pregnant by someone else, albeit by rape? Or was she truly a bride of the faeries?</p>
<p>Some faery abductions had more serious consequences. A wife who consistently produced sickly boys who did not survive or female offspring for a man who desperately needed an heir, might suddenly disappear; the official and often unquestioned explanation of her disappearance was that she was spirited away forever by the faeries. There are still parts of the world where the value of a woman except as a bearer of sons is low; this is a reminder that it has not that long been otherwise in Westernized society also.</p>
<p><strong>Bridget Cleary</strong><br/> Records from centuries past are obviously sparse, and faery abduction as an excuse for wife murder or beating may sound to be pure speculation. That said, we do know that in Tipperary in Ireland as recently as 1895 Bridget Cleary was tortured and burned to death by her husband Michael. He claimed that his wife had been stolen by the faeries and a changeling substituted. Michael insisted that by destroying the enchanted form of his wife, the true Bridget herself would return on a white horse at midnight. Seven of her neighbors and relatives, including Bridget's father and aunt, were involved and later convicted of the crime. A hundred years later, Angela Bourke, a professor at University College, Dublin and author of <em>The Burning of Bridget Cleary</em>, stated that the case demonstrated the clash between two different world views, two ways of dealing with troublesome people, two ways of accounting for the irrational, at a time of profound social, economic, and cultural change.</p>
<p>Bridget Cleary's crime was that she was economically and socially independent by her own efforts, rather than by birth. Presumably, had the case gone unpunished, her death would have been very profitable for her husband and family, who would have inherited her money.</p>
<p><strong>Fairy Queen Temptresses</strong><br/> As the goddesses were downgraded into faeries, some acquired the role of temptresses and abductors of innocent males. In Scotland, myths tell of the <em>Bean chaol a chot uaine's na gruaige buidhe</em>, "The slender woman with green kirtle and yellow hair"—a fairy queen who had the ability to turn water into red wine and spin the threads of the spiders into tartan. The fairy temptress would, by playing her magical reed pipe, lure young men into her faery hill. Unless they left a piece of iron over the lintel of the entrance, they would be forced to dance and serve the pleasure of the faery queen until she tired of them and sent them home. It is said these young men would find that though it only seemed one night had passed in faeryland, decades might have gone by in the mortal world and the fresh-faced milkmaid sweetheart to whom he had sworn his eternal fidelity was now an aging grandmother.</p>
<p>The most famous young male abductee who seems to have actually gained from his visit to faeryland was Thomas the Rhymer, whose ballad is still performed in folk clubs with Celtic connections. The true Thomas was Thomas of Earlston (Erceldoune), a thirteenth century poet who claimed to have met the Queen of Elfland under a magical elder tree. In return for a kiss he tells how he was forced to go to faeryland with her, though other versions suggest Thomas was more than willing to be seduced. In a few accounts the Queen becomes an ugly hag and the ritual mating of youth with the ancient crone goddess occurred to maintain the cycle of the seasons and ensure the fertility of the land. Thomas remained in faeryland for seven years, though they were only three days in fairy time. He was rewarded with the gifts of poetry, prophecy, and a magical harp.</p>
<p>It has been argued in recent years that Thomas was in fact initiated into a local witch cult and that his visions of faeryland were shamanic.</p>
<p><strong>An Escape from the Faeries</strong><br/> Not all captives were as willing as Thomas, nor the faery queen as willing to part with her mortal lover. One of the most famous tales, recorded by the Scottish poet Robert Burns as well as several other poets, is that of Tam Lin, a Scottish knight who fell from his horse and was captured by the Queen of the Faeries. She bound him with magic and posted him to guard one of the entrances to the world of humans at the well of Carteraugh, close to the borders of Scotland.</p>
<p>Young maidens were warned not to drink at the well, for every time they did and picked one of the roses that overhung it, Tam Lin would appear and demand that either the girl gave him a green mantle or offered up her virginity.</p>
<p>One bold young woman, Janet, decided to see whether the myth was true, and plucked a rose from the well. She and Tam Lin fell in love, and he wanted to escape from the Faery Kingdom to wed Janet.</p>
<p>The next night was Halloween, and Tam Lin explained that there was an opportunity that only occurred every seven years for him to escape. The Faery Ride would take place, when then the faeries moved to their winter quarters (in some versions seen as hell). The faery troop had to ride on horseback along the road. Tam Lin told Janet to wait for him at the crossroads at midnight and to hold on to him, whatever form he took.</p>
<p>As Tam Lin rode by in the faery procession, Janet pulled him from his horse and held tight. Just as he had warned Janet, the Faery Queen turned Tam Lin first into a newt, then a snake, a tiger, a bear, and finally into red hot metal. Janet held fast, and as he became molten metal, she plunged him into the magical well.</p>
<p>The spell was broken. Tam Lin emerged from the water in human form, and he and Janet were soon married.</p>
<p><strong>Faery Marital Quarrels</strong><br/> Faery marriages were frequently as turbulent as earthly ones.</p>
<p>Titania is most famous in literature as the wife of Oberon, King of the faeries, in Shakespeare's <em>A Midsummer Night's Dream</em>. In this play she is depicted as petulant, willing to let the seasons go to rack and ruin while she pursues her vendetta against Oberon, who retaliated by making her fall in love with a peasant with a donkey's head.</p>
<p>Titania was, before she was Christianized and downgraded (like many Pagan goddesses) to faery status, known as Themis the Ancient Greek Titan Goddess of Justice and Order, and the mother of the Fates and the Seasons.</p>
<p>Finvarra or Fin Bheara, who ruled the faeries of the west Of Ireland, was the apparently devoted husband of Queen Oonagh. Oonagh has been described in true Victorian style by Lady Wilde, who collected accounts of faery folk lore in Ireland, as having golden hair sweeping to the ground, clad in silver gossamer glittering as if with diamonds, which were actually dew drops.</p>
<p>In spite of his wife's ethereal beauty, Finvarra was obsessed with mortal women who, overpowered by the music of faeryland, were spirited away to live there with him forever. He was also said to have a second Queen, Nuala. Oonagh was unsurprisingly not welcoming to mortal maidens to the fairy court.</p>
<p>Other maidens seduced by Finvarra's music danced all night with him and in the morning, found themselves on a faery hill, possessing knowledge of love potions and of magic—and sometimes a faery pregnancy.</p>
<p><strong>A Fairy Love Wishes Spell</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Find a faery tree: a hawthorn, elder, ash, willow, or oak, or in the southern hemisphere, a eucalyptus, tea tree, golden wattle, or the bushy manuka.</li>
<li>Sit beneath or close to its branches on a bright moonlit night during the week of the full moon.</li>
<li>Best of all is the night of the full moon. Look upwards at the moon and feel the positive energies of the cosmos and the moon mother, associated with faithful love and fertility, flowing into you.</li>
<li>Watch the moonlight filter through the leaves and make patterns, and you may be aware of living, moving energies within the branches and leaves.</li>
<li>Touch the trunk of the tree with your hands, and let the life force of the tree spirit flow into you, so that you can feel the pulsating energies of its essence like mild electricity.</li>
<li>Standing and still touching the tree, press your feet down towards the roots, allowing the Earth mother to offer you her fertility and the power so you will find or live with the right mate forever.</li>
<li>Now extend your arms upwards, and draw inwards strength and healing from the moon-dappled leaves.</li>
<li>Move away from the tree and, keeping the moon in view, spiral the tree nine times clockwise (<a href="http://www.llewellyn.com/encyclopedia/term/widdershins">widdershins</a>) in ever decreasing circles, letting your feet guide you. The nine circles of power are an ancient magical device, and if you now stand within the innermost ring, reaching out with just your fingertips to the trunk, you may momentarily make contact with the spirit of the tree.</li>
<li>Ask the essence within the tree, the earth, and the moon mother to bless your love or to bring to you the person who will make you happy. You can also ask for fertility if you are trying to conceive a child.</li>
<li>Spend a little longer watching the moonlight filter through the leaves and amplifying the tree energies.</li>
<li>Bury a silver earring or nine silver-colored coins, the metal of the moon mother, beneath the roots as a token of thanks; whisper your love's name or call out on the air the one who will make you happy to find you.</li>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #cc99ff;" class="font-size-3"><strong><font face="Buckingham">There are many theories as to the origin of the FaeryFolk and much lore has come down to us concerning their nature and behaviors. Whatever one believes of their nature and origin, they are noted to be attuned to the land and live in the Underworld, which they enter by mounds known as Sidhes. These mounds are their dwellings (as are other underground spots such as caves, caverns and hollow hills) as well as entrances to deeper parts of the earth. Faeries are said to change residence at every quarter - thus reflecting the change in the seasons and within the earth. The "quarters" referred to in this case are actually what the modern pagan traditions refer to as the "cross-quarter" days - Brigid, Beltane, Lughnasahd and Samhain.</font></strong></span></p>
<p align="center"><span style="color: #cc99ff;" class="font-size-3"><font face="Buckingham"><strong>The Underworld is also said to be the dwelling place of the Ancestors and in Celtic legend and lore there was not always a big distinction made between the faeries and the ancestors. It was often thought that the dead went to live in the "Blessed Isles of the West," often referred to as the Land of Summer or Summerland. These Blessed Isles of the West were also held to be the original home of the Shining Ones of Old - the Tuatha de Danann. One of the Irish legends states that after the defeat of the Tuatha at the hands of the Milesians, the Tuatha were banished to - or chose to take as their domain - the mounds and the hills: that is, the places <em>below</em> the surface of the earth: the Underworld Realm. This brings in the connection with the faeryfolk - whom some say </strong><em>are</em> <strong>the Tuatha de Danaan. </strong></font></span></p>
<p align="center"><span style="color: #cc99ff;" class="font-size-3"><strong><font face="Buckingham">Of all the nights of the year, it is only on Samhain that the sidhe mounds, hollow-hills, caves and caverns are open and the</font><font face="Buckingham"> treasures of the sidhe can be seen. All the spirits are abroad this time of the year - ancestors and other ghosts, pucas, faeries and hosts of other Under and Otherworldly beings. The Sidhe-dwellers were considered by the Celts to be the rulers of Samhain and of the other spirits at large at Samhain. The costume aspect of Halloween/Samhain might possibly come from the custom of "Ritual Disguise." Only those in disguise would dare venture out this night, their disguise designed to confuse the sidhe dwelling faeries, who along with the revered, but sometimes feared, ancestors, were abroad on this night when the veils between the worlds were so thin as to allow easy passage between them. A Samhain feast was held with special foods and the hearth was prepared for the visit of the Ancestors. Food was left out to propitiate the spirits. In some parts of the Celtic world a place was set for them at the family table. Samhain is a night to honor the ancestors, and the Tuatha de Danaan, and the dwellers in the sidhe, who may, after all, be one and the same.</font></strong></span></p>
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<p class="SKYUI-Highlight-Node F02a17nc">Fairies live in some type of land both on earth and on an other plane of existence. This place has been called many names throughout history: <strong>Fairyland, Elfhame,Tir-na-nOg, the Realm Perilous, Avalon, ...…</strong></p>
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<p class="SKYUI-Highlight-Node F02a17nc">Fairies live in some type of land both on earth and on an other plane of existence. This place has been called many names throughout history: <strong>Fairyland, Elfhame,Tir-na-nOg, the Realm Perilous, Avalon, ...</strong></p>
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<p class="SKYUI-Highlight-Node I01t32dH">It is told in the legends, that once there was a time when the human world was one with Faerie. But because of some dramatic change, faeries had to retreat and maintain only an avant-post on our world. However, the same legends say that there still exist some gateways between the world of faeries and our. Those who have the gift or are in possession of the magic mantra can enter into faerieland.</p>
<p class="SKYUI-Highlight-Node I01n17dn"><span>In the legend of Childe Roland, he gained entrance to a fairy knowe by circling it three times <span><em>widdershins</em></span>, crying "Open door! open door!". At the third pass it opened and he found himself in the Dark Tower of Elfland</span>.</p>
<p class="SKYUI-Highlight-Node T01i60sa"><strong>Time</strong> appears not to exist in fairyland, and neither is there any ugliness, sickness, age, or death. Mortals taken to fairyland may pass as much as 900 years there, thinking it only one night. Although no one dies in fairyland there appears to be a fairy birth, as there are many stories of fairy infants and children who require mortal mothers to nurse them. <br/> <br/> <strong>Fairy palaces</strong> (see Ir. Brug) are thought to be lavishly decorated in gold and silver, where the residents and their guests spend much time consuming immense banquets of the richest, most delicious food. Much time is given to dancing and music. Fairies favour two domestic animals, the dog and the horse, although fearful dogs and cats are sometimes ascribed fairy powers. Fairies ride in procession on their white horses, their manes braided and decorated with tinkling silver bells.</p>
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<p class="SKYUI-Highlight-Node T03h10ee">The two worlds are said to be connected by fairy rings, fairyislands and fairy steads, magical gateways to the other world. The passages that lead to Faerieland were as numerous as people and countries. Banks of mists often surround fairy rings or fairy hills. However, there sometimes can be found a gap in the mists. This is called the mist-gate.</p>
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<li><strong>Karnach</strong>: there was a time when the Korrigans nation had its main city under the megaliths of Karnach in South Britanny.</li>
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<li><strong>Broceliande</strong> : a deep forest in Britanny (France) which was believed to be Camelot at the time of the King Arthur. Viviane has her own fountain where one with pure heart can see her.</li>
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<li> <strong>Isle of Skye</strong> : The houses at Glenn an Uird are so-called fairy houses. The island is particularly rich with fairy stories and these underground homes have long been regarded as the doorways the fairies, or na Sithein, used between their world and our own.</li>
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<p class="SKYUI-Highlight-Node O01n18hr">One family who was supposed to have stumbled upon this underground abode was the MacCrimmons, whose fame as pipers is known throughout Scotland. They were supposed to have been granted this marvelous musical gift from the Seelie Court in return for their unselfish desire to serve their fellow countrymen. Incidentally, they found the Seelie Court's burgh.</p>
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<li><strong> Bryn y Ellyllon</strong> : (the hill of the goblins) in Somerset, near Mold, Clyd Flint. </li>
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<li><strong>Castle Neroche </strong>: in Somerset. Faeries defended their hill from gold seekers by instilling the miners with a fierce panic and they all died within a month of the attempt.</li>
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<li>The tumulus at New Grange, Ireland</li>
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<li><strong>Knockma Hill</strong>: Under Knockma Hill is King Firvarra's palace. He still holds court there as the leader of the Daoine Sidhe.</li>
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<li><strong>Isle of Man </strong>: where fearies have been the most active in the United Kingdom</li>
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<li><strong>Gump Hill </strong>: near Cornwall, reported to be a popular faerie meeting place.</li>
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<li><strong>Knockfierna</strong> is a large fairy hill on the Limerick plain. On the top of the hill is the palace of the fairy king Donn Fierna. There was once a song about the hill, perhaps now lost.</li>
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<li><strong>The Mönchen Mountains</strong>, near Knesebeck in Germany</li>
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<li><strong>The Dwarves' Cavern </strong>in Hasel not far from Schopfheim in Germany was once home to a large number of male and female dwarves, from whom the cavern's name derives.</li>
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<li>On the north and the south sides of the Harz mountains in Germany, especially in several areas of the Hohenstein region, there once lived many thousands of dwarves or "Kröpel" in the clefts of the cliffs and in the still-extant dwarf caves.</li>
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<p class="SKYUI-Highlight-Node F01a22sS"><strong>Fairy islands</strong> are mythological islands where endless spring and happiness is. Ageing and sickness in unheard of. Somesay they float, some are underwater and come above surface at night and some are visible only at special occasions.</p>
<p class="SKYUI-Highlight-Node A02m02se">Among the best known are the <strong>Isles of the Blest</strong> (a/k/a Fortunate Islands), <strong>Tir Nan Og</strong> (the Land of the Young), <strong>Tirfo Thuinn</strong> (the Land Under the Waves), <strong>Tire Nam Beo</strong> (Land of the Living), <strong>Tirn Aill</strong> (the Other World), <strong>Mag Mor </strong>(the Great Plain), <strong>Mag Mell </strong>(the Pleasant Plain), and <strong>Tir Tairngire</strong> (the Plain of Happiness).</p>
<p class="SKYUI-Highlight-Node T08r68yf"><span id="SKYUI-Higlight-Marker-i122647" class="SKYUI-Higlight-Marker"></span><img alt="" src="http://faerie.monstrous.com/images/stories/fairy%20islands.jpg" class="SKYUI-Highlight-Node f02a04gs"/><br/> <br/> <strong>Tír-na-n-Og</strong>: There is a country called Tír-na-n-Og, which means the Country of the Young, for age and death have not found it; neither tears nor loud laughter have gone near it. According to many stories, Tír-na-n-Og: is the favourite dwelling of the fairies. Some say it is triple-the island of the living, the island of victories, and an underwater land. The shadiest boskage covers it perpetually. One man has gone there and returned. The bard, Oisin, who wandered away on a white horse, moving on the surface of the foam with his fairy Niamh, lived there three hundred years, and then returned looking for his comrades. The moment his foot touched the earth his three hundred years fell on him, and he was bowed double, and his beard swept the ground. He described his sojourn in the Land of Youth to Patrick before he died. <br/> <br/> <strong>The Isle of Apples</strong>: known as <strong>Avalon</strong> in the Arthurian mythos (often equated with Ablach Emain). Here we find the Silver Bough that allowed a living mortal to enter and withdraw from the Otherworld or Land of the Gods. According to legend, the Fairy Queen sometimes offered the branch to worthy mortals, granting them safe passage and food during their stay.</p>
<p class="SKYUI-Highlight-Node A05n43ti">Another medieval writer described Avalon, which meant the isle of apples, with the following words:<br/> <br/> 'Avalon, which men call the Fortunate Isle, is so named because it produces all things of itself. The fields there have no need of farmers to plow them, and nature alone provides all cultivation. Grains and grapes are produced without tending, and apple trees grow in the woods from the close-clipped grass...Thither after the battle of Camlan we took the wounded Arthur...with the Prince we arrived there and Morgan receved us with becoming honour. In her own chamber she placed the King on a golden bed, with her own hand uncovered the wound, and gazed at it long. At last she said that health could return to him, if her were to stay with her for a long time and wished to make use of her healing art.'</p>
<p class="SKYUI-Highlight-Node Y01s58pe"><strong>Ys</strong> is a mythical city that was built on the coast of Brittany and later swallowed by the ocean. Most versions of the legend place the city in the Douarnenez Bay.<br/> <br/> <strong>Pembrokshire Coast</strong> : the Welsh thought it to be an invisible island in the Irish Channel just off this coast <br/> <br/> <strong>Hy Breasail</strong> : elusive island to the west of Ireland <br/> <br/> A Dutch pilot, settled in Dublin, told M. De La Boullage Le Cong, who travelled in Ireland in 1614, that round the poles were many islands; some hard to be approached because of the witches who inhabit them and destroy by storms those who seek to land. He had once, off the coast of Greenland, in sixty-one degrees of latitude, seen and approached such an island only to see it vanish. Sailing in an opposite direction, they met with the same island, and sailing near, were almost destroyed by a furious tempest. </p>
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<p class="SKYUI-Highlight-Node I02n20hr">In old Celtic fairy lore the sidhe (fairy folk) are immortals living in the ancient barrows and cairns. The Tuatha de Danaan are associated with several Otherworld realms including Mag Mell (the Pleasant Plain), Emain Ablach (the Fortress of Apples or the Land of Promise or the Isle of Women), and the Tir na nÓg (the Land of Youth).</p>
<p class="SKYUI-Highlight-Node S01o09dd">Some 19th century archaeologists thought they had found underground rooms in the Orkney islands resembling the Elfland in Childe Rowland.</p>
<p class="SKYUI-Highlight-Node T04h30sr">Those who do not live in the big cities tend to settle down in small packs of several families. There dwelling can sometime be recognized. The Gaelic belief recognizes no Fairyland or realm different from the earth's surcface on which men live and move. The dwellings are underground, but it is on the natural face of earth the Fairies find their sustenance, pasture their cattle, and on which they forage and roam.<br/> <br/> <strong>Sithein</strong> is the name of any place in which the Fairies take up their residence. It is known from the surrounding scenery by the peculiarly green appearance and rounded form. Like a tumulus, it is nearly conical a form and covered with rich verdure. Its external appearance has led to its being also known by various other names.</p>
<p class="SKYUI-Highlight-Node B02r64ss"><span id="SKYUI-Higlight-Marker-i13870" class="SKYUI-Higlight-Marker"></span><img alt="" src="http://faerie.monstrous.com/images/stories/fairy%20sidhe.jpg" class="SKYUI-Highlight-Node"/><br/> <br/> <strong>Brugh </strong>denotes the Fairy dwelling viewed as it were from the inside--the interiors--but is often used interchangeably with sithein. It is probably the same word as burgh, borough, or bro', and its reference is to the number of inmates in the Fairy dwelling<br/> <br/> These dwellings were tenanted sometimes by a single family only, more frequently by a whole community. The elves were said to change their residences as men do, and, when they saw proper themselves, to remove to distant parts of the country and more desirable haunts. To them, on their arrival in their new home, are ascribed the words:<br/> <br/> "Though the good haven we have left,<br/> <br/> Better be the haven we have found." <br/> <br/> The Fairy hillock might be passed by the strangers without suspicion of its being tenanted, and cattle were pastured on it unmolested by the "good people". <br/> <br/> There is, however, a common story in the Western Isles that a person was tethering his horse or cow for the night on a green tolman where a head a appeared out of the ground, and told him to tether the beast somewhere else, as he let rain into "their" house, and had nearly driven the tether-pin into the ear of one of the inmates.</p>
<p class="SKYUI-Highlight-Node A01n14tt">Another, who was in the habit of pouring out dirty water at the door, was told by the Fairies to pour it elsewhere, as he was spoiling their furniture. He shifted the door to the back of the house, and prospered ever after. The Fairies were very grateful to any one who kept the shi-en clean, and swept away cow or horse-droppings falling on it.</p>
<p class="SKYUI-Highlight-Node F02i23st">Finding a farmer careful of the roof of their dwelling, keeping it clean, and not breaking the sward with tether-pin or spade, they showed their thankfulness by driving his horses and cattle to the sheltered side of the mound when the night proved stormy. Many believe the Fairies themselves swept the hillock every night, so that in the morning its surface was spotless.</p>
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<p class="SKYUI-Highlight-Node T02h17nl">The Welsh otherworld, roughly equivalant to the Irish faery land where the Tuatha de Danann dwelt.<br/> In the Welsh tale "Pwyll Lord of Dyved" from the Mabinogion, it is told that Annwn was originally ruled by two great rival lords, Arawn and Havgan. However, a deal between Pwyll and Arawn led to Pwyll's slaying of Havgan in combat, and from then on Arawn was sole ruler of that magical land.<br/> However, in more recent legends and lore, Annwn becomes more the land of the dead, and its king is almost always Gwynn ap Nudd.<br/> Sometimes spelt Annwfn or Annwvyn.</p>
<p class="SKYUI-Highlight-Node L01o48nm">Long ago, on every New Year's Day, a door would appear in the side of a great rock next to a certain lake. Those who entered found that it lead to a passage that ended on the island in the middle of the lake. This island was a beatiful garden kept by the Gwrgedd Annwn, who would serve wonderful food to the travelers and treat them as honored guests. They warned the fortunate mortals that the doorway was a secret and that nothing could be taken from the garden. One mortal took a single flower from the garden and as soon as he touched the soil of earth, all of the other other travelers were expelled and the doorway was closed, never to reopen again.</p>
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<p class="SKYUI-Highlight-Node I01N02he">IN the prose <em>Edda</em>, Ganglar inquires what other cities beside that in which the Nornir dwelt were by the Urdar fount, under the Ash Yggdrasil. Hár replies: “There are many fair cities there. There is the city which is called Alf-heim, where dwelleth the people that is called Liosálfar (Light Alfs). But the Döckálfar (Dark Alfs) dwell below underground, and are unlike them in appearance, and still more unlike in actions. The Liosálfar are whiter than the sun in appearance, but the Döckálfar are blacker than pitch."</p>
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<p>To invite fairy creatures into your yard, try showing them the way. <br></br> Choose a smooth surface, like a patch of bare earth or a patio, and lay out a circle of fairy footprints, that is, make a stencil by cutting tiny…</p>
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<p>To invite fairy creatures into your yard, try showing them the way. <br/> Choose a smooth surface, like a patch of bare earth or a patio, and lay out a circle of fairy footprints, that is, make a stencil by cutting tiny footprint shapes in a piece of paper. <br/> Lay the paper on the ground, and sprinkle it with sugar or some powdered milk. <br/> Then move the paper along, and keep repeating until you have a full circle. Put a few flower petals in the center. <br/> As you work be sure to sing appropriate words, such as:</p>
<p>Little folk of flashing wing, <br/> little folk of dancing feet, <br/> hear my words to you and bring <br/> blessings with you when we meet.</p>
<p>Fairies love music and flowers. They especially enjoy dancing in circles. Give them this simple hint, and see what happens.<br/> By: Elizabeth Barrette</p>
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<p>Combine in a teapot: <br></br><br></br>3 tsp black tea <br></br>1/2 tsp chamomile <br></br>1 tsp dandelion rood <br></br>1/2 tsp elder flower <br></br>1/2 tsp hops <br></br>1/2 tsp mugwort</p>
<p>1/2 tsp raspberry leaf <br></br>1 1/2 tsp rose hips <br></br><br></br>saying as you drop the herbs into the pot or filter basket:</p>
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<blockquote><em>Black for power; apple of night, root of the sun, Lady’s blessing, Lord’s leap for joy, then between the worlds to Fairy bramble, with token of love, brewed to bring Fair Ones close…</em></blockquote>
<p>Combine in a teapot: <br/><br/>3 tsp black tea <br/>1/2 tsp chamomile <br/>1 tsp dandelion rood <br/>1/2 tsp elder flower <br/>1/2 tsp hops <br/>1/2 tsp mugwort</p>
<p>1/2 tsp raspberry leaf <br/>1 1/2 tsp rose hips <br/><br/>saying as you drop the herbs into the pot or filter basket:</p>
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<blockquote><em>Black for power; apple of night, root of the sun, Lady’s blessing, Lord’s leap for joy, then between the worlds to Fairy bramble, with token of love, brewed to bring Fair Ones close to me.</em></blockquote>
<p>If not using an automatic tea maker, boil water in a kettle and add to a teapot that was warmed with a bit of hot water before the tea leaves and herbs were put in. Let steep for five minutes. Warm a second teapot by swirling inside it more hot water from the kettle. Pour out the water and strain the brewed tea into this warmed pot. Add to taste in your teacup whatever sweetener and milk you like. You may want to have something to eat such as cookies or tea biscuits (Scottish shortbread is very good and can be found in most supermarkets), or other tea snack. This can be part of your <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.llewellyn.com/encyclopedia/term/cakes+and+wine">Cakes and Wine</a> ritual toward the end of your spellwork, or you can use it to set the mood prior to your Faerie magics. <br/><br/>From <em><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.llewellyn.com/product.php?ean=9781567186888&utm_source=llewellynjournal&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=llewellynjournal">Green Witchcraft III: The Manual</a></em>,</p>