Archives: February2009

  • Witchery of the Frog and Toad

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    Witchery of Frog and Toad
    I’ll go to the toad
    That lives under the wall;
    I’ll charm him out
    And he’ll come to my call.
    The Frog King

    In the Grimm’s Fairy Tale, Frog King, a little princess chases her golden ball around the [...]

  • Thomas Rhymer: An Exploration of A Faery Ballad

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    Child Ballads:
    One of the things that drew me to the Faery Tradition was my love of the old Child Ballads. these were collected throughout the British Isles by a folklorist Francis James Child in the late 19th century.
    This [...]

  • Lyke Wake Dirge: A Journey Between the Worlds

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    This dark little number has haunted me since I [...]

  • Death in Art

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    A somber procession of three hundred robed and hooded men winds along the edge  of the sea. The deep power of their chanting  mingles with the ringing of the bells and the crashing of the surf, and the [...]

  • Four Witches, Three Graces? Or Something Else…?

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    In 2006, at Treadwells bookshop in London, I participated in a  discussion of the engraving by Albrecht Durer included here. It is greatly loved by many Wiccans who claim it shows a circle of Four Witches doing a [...]

  • The Gate at the Ege of the World

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    When I was seven years old, I learned the poetry of winter.
    In Massachusetts, winter snows are high and deep. I remember we had to pick my brother, Jim, up from some rural place that we never went before. [...]

  • Everything Has a Soul

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    One cannot have the Witchblood and perceive nature as a collection of dead objects to be harvested or exploited. For ones like us, everything is alive and has consciousness. That consciousness is not the same as human consciousness, [...]

  • Who are the Horned Ones?

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    Those of us with antlers, those of us with horns…I saw myself in many dreams with the antlers of a stag. I shall explore the mysteries of horns and those who wear them in the spirit world.

    I was [...]

  • What is a Witch? How do You Know You are a Witch?

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    Many people question what it means to be a witch, so it is important for me to define what a witch is from my own perspective, for none have been so maligned or misunderstood as we.A witch has [...]

  • Legacy of the Witchblood

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    I died when I was born. Reluctant to enter the world that my soul knew was the next phase of my journey, I attempted to flee the womb. I tried to leave for a second time and was [...]

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