Celtic
epub |eng | 2019-05-29 | Author:Ellen Evert Hopman

Asphodel (Asphodelus ramosus) With its gray foliage, this is said to be a favorite food of the dead. In ancient Greece, the living roasted the roots and ate them, or ...
( Category: Spiritualism August 7,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Michael Greer

Receptive Working The deep places of the Earth are the home of the telluric current, one of the two primary currents of nwyfre used in Druid magic. The telluric current ...
( Category: Celtic July 20,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Courtney Weber

RITUAL: MISTLETOE RITE OF SACRIFICE Romans wrote that the Druids collected mistletoe on the sixth day following a new moon, cutting the mistletoe from its oak host with a golden ...
( Category: Celtic June 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 2009-06-06 | Author:Jennifer Emick [Emick, Jennifer]

The Brownie The brownie was a creature particular to Scotland, a tiny, wizened brown goblin with large eyes and oversized, pointed ears. A usually benevolent household elf, the brownie was ...
( Category: Celtic June 7,2019 )
azw, mobi |eng | 2014-09-01 | Author:JOHN RHYS M.A.D.Litt.

Whether the Manx are alone in thinking it unlucky to lend salt from one boat to another when they are engaged in fishing, I know not: such lending would probably ...
( Category: Celtic June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-12-21 | Author:Larrington, Carolyne [Larrington, Carolyne]

Conclusion Our journeys in this chapter have taken us through east England, over the heathland and mires of Dartmoor, to the Borders and North Yorkshire where corpses once roamed, and ...
( Category: Celtic June 6,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2011-09-29 | Author:Green, Miranda [Green, Miranda]

Pits – Entrances to the Underworld The custom of digging deep pits or shafts in the ground, where the primary function was apparently religious rather than utilitarian dates back, in ...
( Category: Celtic June 6,2019 )
azw3, azw |eng | 2016-06-22 | Author:MacCulloch, J. A. (John Arnott), 1868-1950 [MacCulloch, J. A. (John Arnott), 1868-1950]

* * * CHAPTER XIII. TREE AND PLANT WORSHIP. The Celts had their own cult of trees, but they adopted local cults—Ligurian, Iberian, and others. The Fagus Deus (the divine ...
( Category: Celtic June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2004-11-30 | Author:NicMhacha, Sharynne MacLeod [NicMhacha, Sharynne MacLeod]

An Ancient Division of Space and Time In Celtic Heritage, Alwyn and Brinley Rees write extensively about the two-fold division of space and time.32 Some of the earliest traditions pertaining ...
( Category: Paganism June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2018-03-05 | Author:Eason, Cassandra [Eason, Cassandra]

Elhaz or Algiz: the Elk or Eel-grass STRENGTHS, SYMBOL-SIDE UP: Facing difficulties head-on and resolving them; altruism; rising high through achievement and battling to fulfill a dream; good employment prospects, ...
( Category: Fortune Telling June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-07-28 | Author:Bonwick, James [Bonwick, James]

SERPENT FAITH. No country in Europe is so associated with the Serpent as Ireland, and none has so many myths and legends connected with the same. As that creature has ...
( Category: Druidism June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-06-22 | Author:Hans-Peter Ph.D., Hasenfratz

5 The Powers The religious human being finds himself or herself confronted with a multitude of powers, which are often experienced as individual entities embodied in a particular form. These ...
( Category: Paganism June 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-13 | Author:Robert Kirk

A succinct account of My Lord of Tarbat’s relations in a letter to the Honorable Robert Boyle, Esquire (of the predictions made by seers whereof himself was ear- and eyewitness) ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology June 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-18 | Author:Graham Phillips

Fig. 8.1. Locations discussed in the search for Merlin. Besides Uther Pendragon the early medieval romances also include Ambrosius Aurelius, the first author to interpolate him by that name in ...
( Category: Celtic May 28,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-12-05 | Author:Miranda J. Green

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO JEWELLERY AND ADORNMENT Sara Champion It is not currently possible to prove that any of the iron age peoples who lived in central and western Europe in the ...
( Category: Celtic May 27,2019 )