It is 5:55 p.m., Sunday, April 25, 2021. I have been working for the past two weeks on a post about Mata Durga. First set back was I tried to throw out a cat food can lid and got a slice on my middle right hand finger (I’m right handed) so I had a terrible time using my Apple track pad. Next I tried to hang new drapes and I think I pulled a tendon, you guessed it, in my right wrist so I’m currently typing with a Futuro splint.
It’s been raining all day so editing a long post on a very complicated subject seemed too much of a strain. So I took a detour. It will prove relevant as time goes on, I promise.
I discovered Craig Hamilton-Parker several years back. It took awhile before I got around to watching his Amazon Prime special Mystic Journey to India and a few months after that to decide I really need the companion books. The film is outstanding. The books are very interesting but I bit repetitive – Craig could have used a better editor but that’s my opinion only.
The topic of this blog post is Naadi or Nadi leaves – which I had never heard of until Craig talked about them. In researching Mata Durga, I really wanted to find a translation of the Vedas or the Puranas that I could trust. In one of the many, many, many, numerous comments and discussions on the Vedas, someone wrote that if you’re interested look up Swami Vivekananda. Oh, yeah. I said. After googling Vivekananda, and I think Puranas, I ended back in a rabbit hole I had gone down a very long time ago. But THIS TIME something jumped out at me. NADI LEAVES!
So what is a naadi leaf? That’s complicated and Craig says mind blowing.
I will trust that you just watched the above video.This next one is over 2 hours long but it is another example. The description reads as follows:
“One of our seeker’s, Dr. Erica Middlemiss (Co-host of the Positive Head Podcast, QHHT -Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique- practitioner ), was so kind to allow us to share with you her entire Indian Palm Leaf Reading experience. Listen to her entire matching and reading and learn more about the process, the atmosphere and the remedies that are prescribed in a Nadi Reading. The Indian Palm Leaf Reading Institute helps you find your Palm Leaf Prophecy that was written specifically for you over 2,000 years ago. Your Prophecy is stored in a library in India and was written to answer your most important questions about your life as well as to help you with your most important challenges and decisions of your life.
So now that we are on the same palm leaf page, let me take you down a rabbit hole. The post I was working on was about avatars. LOTS of avatars. And about reincarnation or incarnation or the idea of transmigration of souls. What I had forgot about was that I had discovered this person before but didn’t bookmark his website so that I would be reminded to research his site when I had time. Mmmm.
I have not decided what I think about this webpage. In fact, I am hoping you all will leave lots of comments. You can click on the photo and you can watch the video. I thought that Kalki would appear and we’d all know about it. If you ever watched the 1937 movie or read the 1933 book, Lost Horizon, you would have heard about “Shangri–La“. It’s a mythical place that shows up in a lot of films and books. If you ever had a Kalachakra empowerment, you would have received the teachings, given only to initiates, about Shambhala and KALKI. Ah, HA, you say. Now she is finally making sense!
So, who is this man who looks an awful lot like Swami Vivekananda? What do the Nadi leaves say?
As soon as I upload this blog post, I am going to use the contact form and try to see if Kalki will leave a comment. Because I can write about avatars until I am blue (pun intended if you get it) in the face, but what IF I can write to a real avatar? I don’t know if Amma would have the time to read my blog and comment. I haven’t asked Yasmin Boland yet because I assume Narayani is focused on pujas but who knows? We live in very, strange times, yes?
PS Swami Vivekananda died in 1902 – two years before my father was born in Brooklyn, New York. Swami-ji was in New York City in December 1893 but my dad never mentioned his father or grandfather going to hear him. But who knows? Nikola Tesla met Swami-ji, did any of you expect to read that?Tesla, will be the topic of several posts at some point because I keep encountering HIM also.
PLEASE leave comments. I really want opinions, input, compassionate constructive criticism, and just plain ol’ feedback. I hate writing in a vacuum.
Yasmin Boland is famous for coining the term Moonology. Yasmin showers her Sun, Moon, and Stars community subscribers with worksheets, live chanting sessions, reminders to watch her do a live radio show on Monday mornings (which is recorded on Facebook if you live, like I do, in a different timezone), astrology lessons, and more all designed to help you live a rich and full life and to manifest what you want in life. Subscribers to her newsletter also receive a lot of goodies but if you can afford the subscription, it is well worth it.
The New Moon in Aries took place at 7:30 p.m., Pacific Daylight Savings Time in Spring Creek, Nevada on Sunday, April 12, 2021. Prior to the New Moon Yasmin hosted a Dark Moon ceremony and then a New Moon ceremony and for just shy of $30 US, she offered a workshop for those, like myself, whose Rising Sign/Ascendant is in Gemini. It was AMAZING. Thankfully, it, too, was recorded because she did the workshop live at 4 a.m. my time. I’m glad I wasn’t awake because I could stop the recording and take lots of notes before resuming play.
Joshua P. Warren is famous for being the “Wizard of Weird”, owner of the Ashville Museum (now shuttered because the building it was in couldn’t be brought up to code.), host of ghost tours, paranormal experiments, and now host of Strange Things on IHEART Radio. Josh also showers his newsletter subscribers with invitations to events, instructions on how to conduct experiments, links to free charms, and private offerings. I discovered Josh when he appeared in myriad of news headlines and on the Las Vegas FoxNews channel back in July 2018.
I immediately had to write to him. I learned he had a website and a now retired podcast series called “Joshua P. Warren Daily”. It was in one of his emails alerts, and, I believe, in a Facebook post that I learned about a limited time offer to purchase a wand. Yup, a wand. That’s what I said and immediately clicked to see his promotional video. SOLD. (And it is now listed as SOLD OUT FOREVER). You can watch Joshua’s psionic pal, Tom Vrilock’s YouTube video by clicking on the image.
His Curiosity Shop on his website has videos about the Miraculous Prayer Board, the Wishing Machine, the Bad Buster, and a lot of books. It took a long time to save up to afford a few of them. His friend, Dr. Brad Mulder (2), programmed my Field X Wishing Machine. When it arrived I waited until the next NEW MOON at precisely 13 minutes 15 second Sidereal Time(1) for my exact longitude and flipped the switch. It paid for itself within a matter of 16 days from when I placed an image of them moving into the machine to the day the realtor drove a stake a for sale sign into the front lawn of my neighbors from the pit of hell’s house.I’ll write more about that wish in detail in another post because it was truly a miracle they moved.
It paid for itself a second time, when I asked for a great new neighbor to buy it. Well, the person who did buy the house turned out to be one of the nicest people I’ve ever met and a hermit of sorts – disabled air force medic who just wanted a place to live that was quiet. And now that the previous fiends are gone, my cul de sac is about as quiet as it gets except for the snorting of horses and cattle and peacocks squawking on the ranch down below.
The emerald wand and its accompanying sigil engraved on a pendant were working as advertised the few time I got to use it in the local casinos before the governor ordered everything closed. I haven’t been back now that they are open. I’ll wait until COVID 19 fades out like most pandemics do on their own.
I will confess that I didn’t use the Miraculous Prayer Board as much as I should have. I placed it on a table covered with crystals in a room that I did not go in much because the energy felt off. I did a lot of decluttering, bought a shamrock plant, hung a bamboo windchime on the door, and burnt a lot of incense. A LOT. I re-watched Josh’s video for inspiration. And added a MUST USE DAILY into Yasmin’s Action Plan for the New Moon and the coming 12 months.Vrilock, by the way, invented it.
But you must be wondering WHAT is this woman yammering on about. Yes, Geminis are long winded and they will talk you to death so imagine what’s it’s like having Gemini as your Sun Sign and Gemini as one’s Rising sign. At least I always have myself to talk to, right?
Well, I’m getting to the point now. Joshua P. Warren talked about the NEW MOON and why there might be a scientific basis for thinking there is magick in the air that day, in his I Heart radio podcast (Ep 25) that aired on Friday, April 9, 2021.
This is what he had to say (No transcript, sorry, I had to transcribe this myself).
Josh starts out by talking about his friend, the late Jim Marrs. Jim Marrs, if you don’t know, was a journalist (as was Yasmin Boland) and one of Linda Moulton Howe’s friends. Linda, an investigative journalist, who went on to write a series of books about UFOs, animal mutilations, and crop circles, uploaded a series of interviews with Marrs if you’re interested. They’re not in a Playlist so start with this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_iJK3vNxBg.
The 6 degrees of separation theory has been debunked but I often wonder as I seem to keep constantly circling around the same people.
Josh points out that a lot of the things that Marrs wrote in his 2000 book about aliens has now been documented to be true.. Next Josh moves on to talk about how he worked as a student assistant for Charles A. Yost. Yost was one of the engineers who helped designed the early Apollo spacecraft. Yost firmly believed in UFOs. He showed Josh an official NASA video of what looked like a puff of smoke coming from the surface of the moon.
Moonologists! Josh next talks about the moon having a tail. I had seen mention of this in the news. Then I heard Josh talk about it so I shared it on Facebook, logged into the temporary university library account I was given in order to do research for a renowned professor who is translating a series of wood cuts on remedies used by “doctors” in China circa 1800, and downloaded the article from JGR Planets.
If you’re not into reading scientific journal articles, and the vast majority of people are not, then by all means use a search engine with the words “the moon has a tail”.
This article WATERS it down quite well. Sorry for the pun. It will drive home a point later.
“Like a comet soaring through the cosmos, the moon is followed by a slender tail of irradiated matter — and Earth passes directly through it once a month.
According to a study published March 3 in the journal JGR Planets, the lunar tail is made of millions of sodium atoms blasted out of the lunar soil and into space by meteor strikes and then pushed hundreds of thousands of miles downstream by solar radiation. For a few days a month, when the new moon sits between Earth and the sun, our planet’s gravity drags that sodium tail into a long beam that wraps around Earth’s atmosphere before blasting into space on the opposite side.
The lunar tail is harmless and invisible to the naked eye. During those few new-moon days each month, however, the beam becomes visible to high-powered telescopes that can detect the faint orange glow of sodium in the sky. According to the study’s authors, the beam then appears as a fuzzy, glowing spot in the sky opposite the sun, about five times the diameter of the full moon and 50 times dimmer than human eyes can perceive“.
Joshua P. Warren points out that “sodium is a component of salt and when you add salt to water it becomes more electrically conductive”. He then points out that our atmosphere is made up of primarily water in various stages. So that means when a beam of sodium is shooting towards earth that maybe the Earth’s atmosphere is more conductive during the time of the new moon. And remember SALT is a crystal and if we are being bombarded with sodium which is a metal, are our ceremonies more powerful on the new moon?
So if that is the case, does that mean there is more paranormal activity around the time of the new moon because you always hear about electricity and electromagnetism being connected to paranormal activity?
Josh then goes on to talk about how many paranormal events in his life happened on the new moon. So when Yasmin Boland talks about NEW MOON CEREMONIES, we now know that there is a scientific basis for WHY it is really, REALLY, important to pay attention to the phase of the moon! My neighbors are gone and life on my isolated cul de sac is just shy of bliss. It used to be hell and I mean HELL!
So during Monday, April 12, 2021 after completing Yasmin’s 7 Day Challenge leading up to the full moon, and attending her Dark Moon Ceremony and New Moon Ceremony, I printed out all of the worksheets I had filled in, downloaded Joshua P. Warren’s 30 minute Good Luck Tone onto my IPAD, saged my meditation room, lit some palo santo, turned on the IPAD so the tone would play for 30 minutes, faced Mata Laxmi’s yantras and Shri Ganesha and Shri Hanuman’s paintings, and read the affirmations one by one using a stop watch so I’d read for at least 68 seconds.
Then I reloaded Joshua’s BAD BUSTER, reloaded and reset the Field X Wishing Machine, read a prayer using Joshua’s explicit instructions with my thumbs on the Miraculous Prayer board, then hung aBulgarian bill from 1951 (3) on the wall, chanted OM NAMO NARAYANI, all while wearing Joshua’s Ho’oponopono dog tag, his Golden Ratio pendant its gold chain (SOLD OUT) that I added Shri Ganesha’s yantra, and my raw moldavite pendant, while wearing a gold pixu on a Feng Shui Black Obsidian Wealth Bracelet and two pixus on the Natural Gold Obsidian Double Pi Yao Wealth Bracelet – both on my left wrist after being charged in a $10 vintage sterling silver bowl facing down onto gold.
I went to bed feeling like I had spent the day at the beach or having had a 90 minute massage. You don’t have to be as obsessive about it all as I am but I’ve seen it all work a miracle and I have no doubt it will again.
(1) In one of Josh’s Daily Podcasts he talked about how you can use an app to calculate sidereal time. WHY? Because “There is a 400% increase in spiritual/psychic/energy healing at 13:30 Sidereal time; 200-300% increase in abilities between 13:15 and 13:45 Sidereal time, and 200% increase in abilities between 12:45 and 14:15 sidereal time.”
First type your house address into the boxes here:
Next copy the longitude and ENTER times until you get 13.5
I do NOT recommend accepting an invitation to stay in the Lincoln Bedroom on the night of the new moon in May 2021. Especially if you plan on turning the lights off at 10:02 p.m.!
(2) April 15, 2021 Forgot to add a hyperlink and found this gem!
(3) Joann’s had these really cute tiny clothespins. When I got home I found ideas on how to use them on Pinterest. I hung picture hooks and strung a colored string and am now using my hallway as a manifesting tool.
Back in 1998, I think it was, a friend of mine started emailing and following the work of a very interesting poet and artist named Birgitta Jónsdóttir. Back then she had not yet become famous as an activist and no one ever thought there would ever be nor be a need for Wikileaks. And back then, Iceland had the rest of the world had not anticipated another global financial crisis. So, we were able, instead, to chat away about elves and faeries and music and folklore and artwork and poems.
Back then we were able to admire poems and songs about the Huldufólk never imagining that our innocent friendship based on art and music and dance would get our phones tapped because we were friends with a friend who had rocked the international boat. I find it ironic, that had we been friends with an advocate for FAERIES say as late as 1840 in a strict Protestant town or strict Catholic one, we would have been outcasts and have been viewed with suspicion as well.
But back in the late 90s and for several years, I was happily reading about a SCHOOLwhere you could learn everything you ever wanted to know about ELVES!
“I’ve met more than 900 Icelanders and 500 foreigners from 40 countries that have seen elves. Three hundred and eighty have talked to them; 170 have talked with them more than once; 65 or 70 have had a lifetime friendship with them …; and 15 or 16 have been invited into their houses in another dimension“.
It’s pretty hard to discount the personal accounts – again NOT STORIES – of so many people! It wasn’t until the United States military started admitting that pilots and seamen and ground forces had seen UFOs that most people stopped scoffing.So putting aside anyone’s disbelief that there are highly intelligent beings or entities who appear to possess magical abilities or one or more siddhis –
the ability to shrink in size even to the point of becoming as small as an atom
expand one’s size out into the universe if desired
become “infinitely heavy”
become weightless and/or to shapeshift and/or to enter another creature’s body
manifest things out of thin air
fly, walk on water, etc.
control all of the elements of the universe
control life and death
what kinds of elves or faeries or gnomes or goblins live in Iceland?
There are a few videos on YouTube about a lovely lady that gives tours of the Elf Garden in Hafnarfjordurless than 6 miles from the Reykjavik International Airport.
One such video is done by Paula Froelich. I made this clip. I hope to extract a few more but the program that I found that actually worked (after trying several and reading several articles and blogs about extracting clips) is down awaiting an upgrade. Sigh!
The comments are very unkind – not about Ragga thankfully. You can watch the entire video by clicking on the comment. I suggest possibly reading all the comments first.
I find extremely useful information in comment sections. Those that also can see elves posted their accounts. Although the video is professionally filmed, I found Paula’s attitude to ruin the interview – especially the divination scene at the end.
A much better interview with Ragnhildur Jónsdóttir (Ragga) allows her to just talk and walk around the park. It’s not a commercially produced video but it lets Ragga explain just what she and others see and hear.
A lively travelogue by Joan Jetsetter, a travel expert and producer, was quite good.
In yet another interview, Poppy Koronka writes that while speaking, Ragga began to describe several beings currently in her sight.
‘I’m looking across a fjord”, she said, looking out the window at the Mountain Devas Ragga said she could see on the peaks in the distance. “They’re huge. Like guardian angels of the area, they are constantly sending and transmitting energy between each other all over the place, it’s like a net of light all over the world”.’
So why DO I believe Ragga and all the other people from around the world who have seen elves, dwarfs, gnomes, devas, angels,and/or nature spirits of various sorts? Because, and this will be a topic for a different post, I walked into my mother’s nursing home room back in 1999 I looked right at and heard (in my mind’s eyes not with my eyes) what I can only describe as a demon standing next to my mom’s roommate as she lay dying.
Okay, so that sounds crazy EXCEPT that the floor nurse and one of the CNAs (Certified Nursing Assistant) told methe woman died shortly after I left the room and that THEY both had seen it. In fact, it had shown up precisely 3 days before the old lady died. From all accounts, unseen beings have a habit of showing up exactly 3 days before someone dies.
Thanks to Alice Hurst, this section has now been re-written to make the timeline of what happened a lot clearer. It still creeps me out writing about it all these years later.
I had gone to the nursing home to pick up my mom’s laundry which I did every week. I’ll write about this in another post. The point I want to make here is that when I returned to the room, the floor nurse and the CNA came running towards me to warn me that the woman had died. When they saw the look on my face they both stopped short and said “OMG YOU saw it!”. And that’s when my account of what I had seen and heard came blurting out in a fit of hysteria. And that is when they both told me how, although they were used to seeing (WITH THEIR EYES) all kinds of beings arrive at the bedside of the dying – they had NEVER seen anything like this thing. What shook them to the core was they were afraid to look at it and it never spoke to either of them.
ME – it told me to get the FUCK out of the room. And that’s when I got pissed off. But, like I said, that’s a whole blog post for another time. Have I seen nature spirits? No! But I can tell when there is, what the Buddhists call, a sentient being in a room or garden near me or in some cases tugging on me. But, unlike Ragga, I have not seen them. I hope she never sees what I saw. I would not wish that on anyone – well, not intentionally.
I was watching the story arc detailed in Vighnaharta Ganesh where Bandasura is battling Parashakti and all of the goddesses. In Episode 576, Bandasur evokes the asura (demon) named Rogastrasur who spews all manner of diseases upon the army of goddesses.
The make up and special effects artists took pains to make the young vibrant actresses appear to age and to succumb to fearsomely gruesome diseases. Just when you think all is lost, Mata appears superimposed over the arms of each goddess like a tattoo. Then Sri Ganesh narrates all creatures have the Goddess residing within them. Then he says, that those who invoke the name of the Goddess (alas this part wasn’t properly translated) and chant
ACHYUT ANAND GOVIND SLOKA
will be cured of their diseases. THAT caught my attention and sent me on a search for several hours. The first thing I had to do was figure out if a sloka was the same as a mantra only sung. This article explains that it is.
The next step was to find out if anyone had recorded it and luckily, I found an OUTSTANDING, renowned singer named Jayateerth Mevundi. Better yet I found Mr. Mevundi performing the sloka. However, I could not make out what he was singing except for the words “Achyuth Anantha Govinda”.I did a few more searches and found all of the words but with a “meaning” that did not make sense. I wanted what I think of as a real translation.
For example, this post was very interesting but it did not translate the words.
I literally prayed and switched search engines and found this incredible blogger who used this mantra in one of his lessons on how to learn Sanskrit through slokas. I kid you not! It was his second lesson.
And the words used in the lesson matched up with what I was hearing being sung on the first track of an entire album called Healing Mantras for Arthritis. Since I have osteoarthritis, I couldn’t believe my good luck.
Here are the screen shots from this wonderful blog entry by Rangarajan Parthasarathy because he has formatted this so well, I do not think I should even try to quote it. All of a sudden the strange “meaning” I found on other sites, made sense! The sloka really does state that this is the truth or I speak the truth. The comments on this sloka on various sites were interesting in that there were first hand accounts of how reciting this properly “cured” or at least greatly alleviated ailments.
I highly recommend you check out Rangarajan Parthasarathy‘s blog. He writes that with Thedal, he becomes one with the universe and he is hoping that his search will help him discover the eternal truth. Please join him as he traverses through the universe across temples, philosophies and science!
Apparently, I’m not the only one with the same vision, mission, goals, and objectives for blogging about these topics!
My late mother (1917-2001) loved pixies. She absolutely LOVED telling me stories about pixies painting autumn leaves. We had a fantastic issue of Ideal magazine with a perfect painting of pixies doing just that – painting leaves but in one of the moves, I felt I would never have anyone to share the issue with so I gave it away. Don’t you hate that? Usually a week to a month after throwing something out, you find you really need it back.
But there are so many wonderful websites and Facebook pages about the Fae now that I hope I’ll find that issue online again. No, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a faerie, but I have definitely sensed a presence in flower gardens and forests. My whole life I’ve LOVED LOVED LOVED creeks (streams, brooks) – any body of water with stones so you can skip across and not get too wet.
Tinkerbell fascinated me when I first saw it. No! I’m not THAT old to have seen it when it was first released in 1953! But my great love was Peter Pan himself – and there’s the question – WHAT was Peter Pan? Certainly not a human child. If you want to ruin your mood, you can search the literary criticism section in a library but I suggest you avoid that and think of Pan as an elf or nature spirit of some sort. He is, afterall, a literary creation and NOT a REAL faerie!
Which brings me to the AMAZING body of work by Elysia who lives in India. I suppose I should not be surprised that I am typing right now during the Third Quarter Moon in Capricorn when Chandra-dev (if you’re in India) or Luna’s face is illuminated on the left side in the Northern Hemisphere while in shadow in the Southern hemisphere. The MIRROR image of the face in shadow on the right and on the left Down Under might REFLECT the very nature of faeries. Illusive, sometimes seen in broad daylight and sometimes only in shadow!
And who better to describe the many faeries and their worlds (realms) than Elysia who believes whole heartedly that she is a faerie who has incarnated or reincarnated or taken a rebirth as a human. She even has a SCHOOL where she teaches about everything faerie and an online shop. She speaks with the most charming voice and uses background music and illustrations that just lull you into her world. Her most recent video, I am a Fairy, living in a City (India) could, I think, win a short film award for cinematography.
I started my blog and had already announced to the world my intention to write about faeries when lo’ and behold Joshua P. Warren spent an entire hour on his March 23, 2021 I Heart Radio weekly podcast Strange Things to encounters with “Little People” . Josh doesn’t mess around with tales from books. Oh, NO, he reads emails he has received or relates first hand accounts he has been told in person. If you don’t have the time to listen any other podcasts Joshua has done, this one, is a MUST!
12 inch high to two foot high perfectly proportioned humans wearing brown or tan clothing and old fashioned hats! Or the account (notice I am deliberately avoiding the English word “story” as that is often fiction) by a lady who for years was haunted by seeing a little man. Then long after the Harry Potter movies had gone to VHS, she finally decided to watch Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and freaked out during this scene in Gringotts Bank for the goblins created by the team at Jim Henson’s Creature Shop! For there on the screen in front of her was a creature that looked exactly like the one she had seen years and years before IN PERSON in the flesh or at least what we believe is flesh in 3D. But these “creatures” can fade out or blink out or just vanish into thin air as we say. So are they from another realm or dimension or parallel universe or another time?
I first discovered John Curtis Crawford and Bridget Wolfe while searching for something to watch on Amazon Prime. I think this was a suggestion and it was, no pun intended, MAGICAL!Gateways To Faerie – Discover A Hidden Realm of Mystery, Magic and Wonderis beautifully filmed in a forest in Oregon where you walk alongside Curtis as he talks about how he searches for stones and twigs and forest objects to use to build Fairy Houses. Not those cheap ones you can buy at a box store or even the pricey ones online that I bought for my garden and then couldn’t put them outside because I discovered fine print “not for outdoor use” once I got them home. NO NO! These cost hundreds of dollars but are masterpieces of craftmanship. Alas, by the time I found the film, Curtis had retired and was no longer hosting make a house workshops.
BUT you can browse their website and maybe create something like this!
The point is, this couple firmly believe they have seen faeries, live with faeries, and so do many, if not all, of the people who have attended their workshops. These fae are much loved. But what about the ones that have been vilified? Which brings me to an exchange I had during the Moonology Challenge with a lady I met through the comments. Somehow the word Siddhe came up. And a flood of memories came back about the film and the book Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.
I watched it on Amazon, I believe, with my two best friends. We were captivated and scared poopless. I sent for the book through Interlibrary loan the following week. The book took forever to get here and then I had to renew it twice. The hardcover is 782 pages and is quite heavy. It is 1,000 times darker than the film version and a lot gorier. In fact, it was a difficult slog at times because Susanna Clarke has a REALLY sadistic streak. The book still haunts me.
But it did not frighten everyone. E.C. Hibbs loved it and delves deep into the tale in the Gentleman and Fairy Folklore!
The Sidhe are portrayed as frightening but are they? This page takes a different view.
And then there is Edmund (Eddie) Lenihan who appears in a fascinating documentary called The Fairy Faith, a John Walker Production. I found a copy of it here if you cannot watch it on Amazon. The most interesting interview was with Eddie whose book, Meeting the Other Crowd: The Fairy Stories of Hidden Ireland, I do not own YET. However, a preview of the book yielded this list.
Over the years I used to have to hunt for films or even novels that featured the Fae. Now you can literally get lost on YouTube alone! When in one of our lessons, Anheke (Anni) Greystone instructed us to get a tarot deck so we could learn how to use it, I fixated on an out of print deck which I managed to buy brand new on Ebay far above the original price but it is GORGEOUS. You can still find listings like this one. I, luckily, did not pay $200 but it was still pretty expensive.
The deck is, not always, but at times it can provide a scary spot on reading – as in OMG run out of the room scary spot on reading if I ask THEM and not just the usual type of spread.
In Part Two I will leave Ireland behind and jump over to Iceland. See you there!
Librarian's Guide to the Multiverse! 