Tag: Druid
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Clover: The Sacred Three Leaf Cover Crop
“There was an herb called wood sorrel and it is said that there is a tradition connected with it. It was a sacred plant of the Druid before Saint Patrick came to Ireland. It is now called shamrock as Saint Patrick picked it at Tara and held it up as a symbol of the three…
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Cyclical Living
Cover art by Jan Eric Krikke “Today is the first day of the rest of your life. The past is history. The future is mysterious. Then tomorrow—this starts all over again.” Kat Lahr The way we focus on the wheel of the year in some pagan traditions can make it tempting to try and shoehorn…
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The Gifts of the Four Cities
In the tale, “Cath Maige Tuireadh,” The Tuatha Dé Danann became masters of Magick by studying the occult arts as taught by four Wizards in the four Otherworldly cities of the islands of the “North.” North here means the Otherworld and could just as easily be in the Sky or under the sea. The names…
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Ireland’s First Witch Burning: Petronilla de Meath
Cover art by dawndraphoto.com There is a famous Jonathan Swift quote about how the law impacts upon the rich and poor in unequal measure which reads… “Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but lets wasps and hornets break through.” This interpretation was certainly the case three centuries earlier when Irish law decreed…
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Chickweed: The Nutritive Star
“In olden times the people had great belief in the power of herbs for curing diseases. While the herb was being applied they always chanted some old rhyme. When one gets a sprained ankle he pulls chickweed and roasts it on red coals and then applies it to the ankle. I believe this old cure…