Hay, Man: The Curious Life and Times of Scarecrows As the spring season of seeding and planting unfolds with shoots and blooms, it also marks the time of year long ago in Europe, when children scuttled through the plots, sounding … Continue reading →
Sunday, June 23, 2013 Keeping Silent in Traditional Witchcraft To know, to dare, to will and to be silent. The four powers of the Sphinx within Hermetics, which were written by Eliphas Levi, and found their way into modern Witchcraft … Continue reading →
Just a short note to the point that we have done a bit of housekeeping and have slightly rearranged some things here. Now when you come to NemedCuculatii.org you will be arriving on our “Welcome” page instead of our most … Continue reading →
by Lady Gwen (Celtic-Trad. Wicca*) Who or What is Old Jack? Old Jack is another name for our Great Horned God of Wicca when he appears at the death of the year (Hallows) and takes complete charge over the winter … Continue reading →
(The Irish Ossianic Song of the Forest Trees is to be found in Standish O’ Grady’s translation in Eleanor Hull’s Poem Book of the Gael is a listing of trees to be found on Dartmoor. Fortunately, the whole text of … Continue reading →
Come, ye thankful people, come, Raise the song of harvest home! All is safely gathered in, Ere the winter storms begin; God, our Maker**, doth provide For our wants to be supplied; Come to God’s own temple, come; Raise the … Continue reading →
Many neopagans today call the Autumn Equinox festival by the name “Mabon”. This name was first suggested in an article by Aidan Kelly in the middle 1970s, along with Litha and Ostara to repaganize the names of the festivals. While … Continue reading →
[Editor’s note: much of this article regarding “The Four Jacks” is written by Scarecrow, which was inspired in part, by Lady Gwen’s article in Green Egg Vol VIII, #74, Samhain 1975, “Halloween and Old Jack” It reflects a much earlier … Continue reading →
The Voice of the Mother My breath is on the morning and my smile is summer. From my hands the birds of the air take their food. The mild ox is my friend, the wolf trots by my friendly side: … Continue reading →
The year moves another notch on the wheel, and the harvest season begins. The eve of Lammas is also the birthday of Shakespeare’s Juliette, as her Hurse relates in Act One Scene Three: NURSE Even or odd, of all days … Continue reading →
is not the watch-word of the Craft. We are Witches, not physicians, and it is within the purview of the Witch to both heal and harm. Consider: when one heals, one is cursing illness, by banishing it from its host … Continue reading →
“What is Your Witch Potential?” The Witches’ Almanac Spring 1995 – Spring 1996 pg. 94 Originally appeared in the first public edition of The Witches’ Almanac, 1971) Read the following questions and see how you react to them: Have you … Continue reading →
“Over hill, ove dale” from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, Act II, Scene I, by William. Shakespeare
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