Reading Notes Awards! What Kind of Reader Am I? Let The Reading Begin! I plan to share some reading I'm doing, but there will be no reviews.
I will, however, be sharing my exploration of vegetarian cooking and the cookbooks and websites I use to educate myself. I hope you enjoy it! Aside from the fact that I found myself hideously distracted by the fate of Werner's pet cat, this is a beautiful and disturbing essay. The distraction was not the fault of the author. I am always distracted by animals in any story no matter how small their role, because I am always afraid they are only included to meet some horrible end.
It's a personal paranoia. This reads so much like a short story that I wished a little more information had been included regarding the origins of this piece of writing. The inner thoughts and emotions of Werner are so boldly exposed that I would have expected this to be either fiction or a personal memoir.
It did have me spending a couple sleepless hours wondering how I would have handled the same situation. I'm not sure I could have saved myself or my cat. But I am certain that reevaluating my values in life would be a top priority if I managed to do so.
Perhaps it would be best to do that without the prompting of a life-changing conflagration. Posted by Lezlie at PM. Labels: Essay Challenge , Reviews. No comments:. Newer Post Older Post Home. Subscribe to: Post Comments Atom. The Book of Samson by David Maine 2. Poems From Guantanamo edited by Marc Falkoff 3.
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Cattle - An Elf Bull was a welcome visitor to any mortal herd, but some Elf Bulls could be ferocious. Cats - Considered to be almost Faeries in themselves. Selkies - Seal people whose natural form is human and who live in an underwater world and put on seal skins so that they mas pass through the two worlds of water and air.
Birds - Particularly eagles, ravens, owls and wrens. Faerie Capture. Faerie Folk are known for capturing and stealing humans. If a person ventured into a Faerie hill and was inveigled into tasting faerie food or drink they could remain captives. Sometimes the captives would be made into slaves, or they would be caught because of their beauty and talent to enrich the Faerie Tribe and to inject the dwindling stock with fresh blood and vigour.
Nursing mothers were taken because human milk gives extra vigour to the more frail Faerie babies. Older children were also sometimes taken to reinforce the fairy stock or because of their beauty.
Older People were stolen for particular qualities that they possessed, such as musicality, wit, strength etc. Beautiful young women were captured to be brides to Faerie kings or princes Faerie Time.
Time in Faerie land can be tricky. A dance of a few moments may take a year and a day of common time, and a few days of feasting and merriment can consume more than years in the mortal world. Occasionally both Faerie and mortal time can be in sync with each other but it's wise to know that if you visit Faerie land you run the risk of returning long after your mortal lifespan has been consumed. The Faeries have been known to steal an un-christened child out of the cradle and leave a substitute in its place.
The substitute could be a block of wood roughly shaped into the likeness of a child and "glamoured" with a temporary appearance of life which soon faded.
When the baby would appear to die the substitute was duly buried. Sometimes a sickly Faerie child would be exchanged for a beautiful healthy human baby. Oftentimes the changeling was an old withered fairy of no more use the Faerie tribe, who was willing to lead an easy life being fed, cherished and carried about by its anxious foster-mother while it cried and wailed for food and attention.
Stolen babies were fed on faerie food, loved and taken care of by Faerie mothers. They would eventually be accepted as full members of the Faeries tribe. Faerie Food: Small delicious cakes, grain, oatmeal, barley, stalks of heather, milk and honey, sweets Protection against Faeries: Verbena, dry bead carried in the pocket, churchyard mold, St John's Wort, church bells Virtues esteemed by Faeries: They like humans to respect their privacy and guard against infringements upon their privacy, humans should be generous, speak the truth, open loving free people are dear to them hate boasters and braggers hospitality specially towards Faeries , neatness and cleanliness of the houses and gardens they visit.
Keeping of promises and fair dealing with all, merriment, cheerfulness, music, dancing. Dancing: All Fey love to dance and all are very good at it. Faerie Offerings: Clear water set out for drinking they like to wash their babies in it milk and honey, bread, cheese, mead, glitter, jewels, flowers, anything shiny and pretty Fairy Plants:.
Bluebells : Fairies are summoned to their midnight revels and dances by the ringing of these tiny flowers. Primroses: Primroses are one key to fairyland. There is a German legend about a little girl who found a doorway covered in flowers, and when she touched it with a primrose, the door opened up, leading into an enchanted fairy castle. Fern: Pixie fairies are especially fond of ferns. One story tells of a young woman who accidentally sat on a fern, and instantly a fairy man appeared and forced her to promise to watch over his fairy son and remain in fairyland for a year and a day.
They are also used to make soft beds. Foxglove: The name "foxglove" came from the words "folk's glove. One legend says that fairies gave the blossoms to foxes to wear as gloves so they would not get caught raiding the chicken coop. According to another legend, if you picked foxglove, you would offend the fairies.
And if the fairies stole your baby, the juice of the foxglove would help to get it back. In some stories, foxglove appears as a fairy's hat, and the Fey like to make clothes of the flowers. Mushrooms: Used by fairies as tables and stools. Ragwort, cabbage stalks, grass and straw: all of these were used by fairies for transportation in the same manner as a witch uses a broom.
Saffron Crocus: The stamens from this fall flowering crocus constitute the herb saffron. Any food prepared with saffron is a favourite fairy food. Saffron used as a dye will turn cloth a royal gold. Such cloth is very valuable to fairies. Tulips: Faeries like to use the tulip bloom to put their babies to bed. Illnesses caused by Faeries. Stroke for a sudden paralytic seizure comes from the word fairy-stroke. It was believed that a person who suffered a stroke had been shot with an elf dart, their body was stolen away and replaced with a transformed faerie.
Rheumatism slipped discs or anything that twisted or deformed the body was supposed to have been inflicted by Faeries pinching or hitting the afflicted person. Faerie Theft. Faeries like all wild creatures feel themselves to have a right to any human possession, particularly food.
They are able to "take the goodness" out of food, that is taking the substance out leaving the appearance of the food behind. This explains why faerie offerings of food and drink appear to remain intact and uneaten.
It's important to remove the old food and replace it with new. Faerie Trees: Oak, ash and thorn, apple and hazel, rowan, holly and willow, elder and alder. Elm - If an Elm is cut down a neighbouring elm will pine and die in sympathy. Willow - Said to be able to uproot themselves on a dark night and follow a solitary traveller.
Elder - One must ask permission of an Elder tree before cutting a branch. Faeries sought protection under its boughs. I'm gearing up to take part in Inktober again this year, and I was looking over some of my pieces from last year to see what sort of inking techniques I want to explore this year. I have a bit of a different goal for Inktober this year, and I'm excited to share that goal on Instagram soon.
But in the meantime, I wanted to share a coloring page from last year's collection, and so I present this little levitating witch. You can This little witch casting a love spell in a cave with her feline familiar is an image I created last year for Inktober.
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