Archive for the 'traditions' Category

Of shells, dells and wells

• May 16, 2011 • 2 Comments

Posted in beetles, Beltane, death, divination, doors, Easter, eggs, Eostre, etymolgy, folklore, food, gardening, hares, Hawthorn, hedgerows, home, law, life, light, llanllawer, love, May Day, oomancy, petrification, pets, random, roots, spring, superstition, The Wicker Man, traditions, Tramps, wales, well, white lady
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Of ridges, fridges and midges…

• January 14, 2011 • 6 Comments

Posted in birds, chattan specil, christmas, eclipse, etymolgy, food, Glenelg, home, kites, midge, midges, Pembrokeshire, photography, red kite, scotland, Skye, traditions, turkey, Ullapool, Uncategorized, wales


Of Tort, Strangeness and Charms…

• June 24, 2009 • 8 Comments

Posted in birds, birdsong, blogging, blue peter, death, druids, eclipse, execution, family, folklore, gardening, goddess, great tits, gwaun, hedgerows, home, human sacrifice, kites, language, law, life, love, megaliths, midsummer, moon, music, mythology, Pliny, Preselis, robin, rocks, snails, solstice, st john's wort, standing stones, Tacitus, traditions, Uncategorized, vervain, wales, white lady
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Of Love, Labour and Loss…

• February 22, 2009 • 2 Comments

Posted in American Civil Rights Movement, Anglesey, birds, CND, Corstorphine, divorce, Dwynwen, Edinburgh, execution, folklore, food, gardening, home, Ikea, Irene Morgan, language, life, love, love letter, Montgomery bus boycott, Moomins, mythology, Pembrokeshire, photography, protest, random, robin, rocks, Rosa Parks, Sarah Keys, spring, traditions, Uncategorized, wales


Of Wails, Watchers and Wales

• October 12, 2008 • Leave a Comment

Posted in angels, birds, Bride, Brigit, death, folklore, food, funerals, home, keening, life, men, music, mutes, mythology, Paris, Pere Lachaise, traditions, Tramps, Uncategorized, wales, watchers


Of time, tides and turns

• August 3, 2008 • 3 Comments

Posted in birds, clocks, death, Dog Days, eclipse, folklore, food, gardening, home, life, moon, mythology, Pembrokeshire, robin, Sirius, time, traditions, Uncategorized, wales, weather, welshcakes, whinberries


Of Beltane, Basilisks and boulders…

• April 30, 2008 • 8 Comments

Posted in Belanus, Beltane, death, folklore, food, geology, home, life, May Day, megaliths, music, mythology, need-fire, Odin, Pembrokeshire, petrification, photography, Preselis, rocks, standing stones, time, traditions, Trivia, Uncategorized, wales, weather


Of ill winds and wilful minds…

• March 31, 2008 • 2 Comments

Posted in birds, borrowed days, clocks, death, equinox, folklore, gales, gardening, Hanami, home, honey, life, photography, robin, spring, storms, time, traditions, Uncategorized, wales, weather


Of heirs, hares and airs…

• March 1, 2008 • 29 Comments

Posted in birds, Boudica, death, Easter, eclipse, Eostre, folklore, goddess, hares, home, life, moon, mythology, photography, poetry, random, spring, traditions, Uncategorized, wales


Of February Fecund…

• February 2, 2008 • 2 Comments

Posted in birds, Bride, Brigit, Cailleach, candlemas, doors, dunnock, Ffraed, folklore, gardening, goddess, groundhog, hecate, hekate, hellebores, home, Imbolc, mythology, robin, spring, traditions, Trivia, Uncategorized, weather


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