Fairy Folk, Magick, Spiritual, World Events

FLOOD!

It’s strange – as someone who lived in South Yorkshire for most of his life – to hear the familiar names of the villages and towns mentioned on the radio and TV. Sad to hear why as the floods that have torn through those hamlets and villages has dominated the news, revealing in vivid details the sad tragedy of it…

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Fairy Folk, Theatre and TV

Those that walk amongst us.

Last night I went to see the National Theatre Live’s production of A Midsummer Nights Dream from the Bridge Theatre at the cinema. This “gender bending” production saw the roles of Oberon and Titania swapped around – leading the King of the Fairy’s to have a sweet (and rather sexy) fling with the donkey translated Bottom! Briefly too the four…

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Fairy Folk

The Strong Wee Folk

Ask someone in the street about the Fairy folk and they will talk to you about Tinkerbell and Flower Fairies! Tutu wearing wide eyes girls with dragonfly wings and wands with stars on the end. This is the image we have been sold, a relatively modern day fairy folk, largely disempowered from their origins in the folk law of our…

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Fairy Folk

Fury Dust

In Peter Pan it’s Fairy Dust that makes the Darling children fly (that and a happy thought) but real Fairy Dust – and such thing does indeed exist – doesn’t have quite the same effect but it does do something similar. For the Fairy Folk have the power to lift the spirits of those who have fallen – emotionally –…

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Fairy Folk, Uncategorized

All Around Us

Once upon the fairy folk lived all around us, dancing with us side by side under the light of the full moon, sharing their sacred groves. Once upon a time the Fairy Folk aided us in our endeavours, invited into our homes, tending our gardens, milking our cows. Then the Christian folk came – seeing the Fairy Folk as demons…

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Fairy Folk, World Events

BEWARE THE TRICKSTER!

The Trickster is a powerful archetypal figure found in many different cultures around the world from the Norse Loki – god of lies and flies made into a bit of an anti hero by recent Marvel Film – to the Native American Coyote – transformed into Wiley Coyote of the Road Runner cartoons – to the Devil of Christian Fables.…

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Fairy Folk

The Wee Folk

It’s an odd thing to think of elementals as being seasonal but in truth – in a way – they are! As the energy of plants and trees recedes into the Earth as the warmth of Summer fades to the harsh coldness of Winter so too do the elementals leave our land en large and return home to the Other…

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