Post by Peace on Aug 23, 2007 17:52:43 GMT -5
If you've ever caught a whiff of a subtle perfume wafting through the air.... Or caught a glimpse of movement out of the corner of your eye yet when you looked no one was there. If you've ever heard the faint strains of music when no musicians were nearby.... Chances are you've had an encounter with the Fae.A long, long time ago, the Earth belonged to the creatures of the wood. By creatures of the wood I mean gnomes and elves, fauns and faeries, goblins, ogres, trolls and bogies, nymphs, sprites, and dryads. They tended it and took care of it, played, danced and sang in it, cared for wounded animals, sat on mushrooms discussing matters of import and drinking Labrador tea, rode down streams on leaves and bark, and parachuted from trees with dandelion seeds. This was the world into which mankind was born..................Mat Jacobson
"The realm of faery-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow sharp as swords. In that realm a man may, perhaps, count himself fortunate to have wandered, but its very richness and strangeness tie the tongue of the traveller who would report them. And while he is there it is dangerous for him to ask too many questions, lest the gate should be shut and the keys be lost."
J.R.R. Tolkien, "On Faery-Stories," in The Monsters and the Critics and Other EssaysEarly Europeans built fires to celebrate the Summer Solstice and to frighten off witches and faeries on this magical night. To enhance the power of these ritual fires, they burned herbs such as lavender, nettle, mullein, and betony. The most potent of these was hypericum, whose radiant yellow blooms were associated with the sun's magical powers. (In Greek, hypericum means "over the icon," for this protective plant was hung as an amulet above figures of the ancient gods.) To convert the European Pagens, Christian Priests assimilated their festivals into the calendar of saint's days, designating Midsummer Day as the feast of St. John the Baptist. They renamed hypericum St. John's wort (hypericum) and included it among the herbs burned as incense on this day.Susan Wittig Albert
"The realm of faery-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow sharp as swords. In that realm a man may, perhaps, count himself fortunate to have wandered, but its very richness and strangeness tie the tongue of the traveller who would report them. And while he is there it is dangerous for him to ask too many questions, lest the gate should be shut and the keys be lost."
J.R.R. Tolkien, "On Faery-Stories," in The Monsters and the Critics and Other EssaysEarly Europeans built fires to celebrate the Summer Solstice and to frighten off witches and faeries on this magical night. To enhance the power of these ritual fires, they burned herbs such as lavender, nettle, mullein, and betony. The most potent of these was hypericum, whose radiant yellow blooms were associated with the sun's magical powers. (In Greek, hypericum means "over the icon," for this protective plant was hung as an amulet above figures of the ancient gods.) To convert the European Pagens, Christian Priests assimilated their festivals into the calendar of saint's days, designating Midsummer Day as the feast of St. John the Baptist. They renamed hypericum St. John's wort (hypericum) and included it among the herbs burned as incense on this day.Susan Wittig Albert
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