Reconstruction of a 2nd. century B.C. Gaulish banquet. (Artist: Ru-mor). The guests are accurately depicted sitting on the ground on wolf skins, in accordance with the description provided by Diodorus Siculus. ("Library of History", Book V).
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Reconstruction of a 2nd. century B.C. Gaulish banquet. (Artist: Ru-mor). The guests are accurately depicted sitting on the ground on wolf skins, in accordance with the description provided by Diodorus Siculus. ("Library of History", Book V).
Spent the day at sea enjoying my beautiful country like this fat seal 
If you want to use plants to enhance spiritual experiences, you don't have to take anything as extreme as ayahuasca (which I often hear bad stories about and I wouldn't take it myself) . Some of the experiences that I've been having with blue lotus and forget me not have been wild. I have been using both the plants and the homeopathic versions. The forget me not is a threshold plant. I had a dream in the summer that I was in the same room as someone that passed away in december. I called out to Odin and said "please let me touch him." Then I woke up with the words "forget me not" in my head and I knew that he meant the plant. Since using it, the spirit world has been closer than ever.
The clue is in the story about forget me not which comes from European folklore. A Knight was crossing the river to see his lover. He slipped and fell in and drowned because he was weighed down by his armour. In his final moments, he grabbed hold of some forget me not flowers that were growing by the river and shouted "forget me not." After the Knight's death, his lover wore the flowers in her hair in memory of the Knight. This plant can be used in ancestral and dream work.
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HALLOWEEN π SPECIAL π» in which Dave Martel and I discuss the history of horror and our favourite Halloween films πΏ
https://youtu.be/WjMkr9Ra8OI?feature=shared
https://youtu.be/WjMkr9Ra8OI?feature=shared
A member of HOD produced this beautiful oil painting of our Winterfylleth blot at a Bronze Age barrow. 
The Hearth of Devon made a blot to Ingui and the elves on the second night of Winterfylleth despite strong winds making fire impossible - 2026
Winterfylleth / Hunterβs Moon hails!
Blessed Winter Nights to all. ππ»Hail Ingui-Frea!
Some people WRONGLY dismiss Halloween as a commercial American custom. Others think the origin of pumpkin jack-o'-lanterns is exclusively Irish or at least βCelticβ. In reality these lanterns are as much British as Irish, and the tradition is found in other Germanic nations such as Germany and Sweden too.
Prior to the American pumpkin tradition, people in Ireland, Scotland and England used turnips, swedes and mangelwurzels. The lanterns were associated with the Catholic holiday of All Hallowβs Eve in Ireland, but protestants in Britain sometimes moved the festival, such as in Somerset where it was held on the last Thursday of October and was called βpunkie nightβ. Punkie means βjack-o-lanternβ in West Country dialect and these were carried about in a tradition much like trick or treating in America. They didnβt always have faces carved on them, but they were always intended to scare away evil.
The word punkie probably comes from Old English PΕ«can or pΕ«clas which were evil spirits in Anglo-Saxon folklore, cognate to Swedish and Norwegian puke βevil spiritβ. The Irish word pΓΊcaβspiritβ is probably a loan from Old English as the p sound didnβt exist in primitive Gaelic.
The earliest attestations of carving such lanterns are from Worcestershire in England in 1840, Hampshire, England in 1838, and Scotland in 1808. So there is no reason to think it originated in Ireland. Various traditions of bonfires and carrying root lanterns or blazing fagots while going door to door for food existed across the British isles but the switch to pumpkins instead of turnips occurred in the USA.
The tradition of using turnip lanterns was still extant as far East as Sussex in 1973 when it was recorded among children there by Jacqueline Simpson in the Folklore of Sussex. Therefore, the introduction of the American pumpkin jack-o-lantern in Britain occurred while the native turnip tradition still existed, so there has never been a time when British people DIDNT make jack-o-lanterns for this season.
The same kind of tradition is attested in the 19th century among Germanic people on the continent who made vegetable lanterns between late October and early November. This tradition still survives in places and the lanterns are sometimes mounted on poles as they are carried about. Their names include:
German: RΓΌbengeister ('turnip spirits')
German (Swabia): Schreckgesichter ('horror faces')
Swiss: Bochseltieren ('rumble animals')
South Germany and Lorraine, France: Rummelbooze ('turnip disguise')
German (Hesse): Gliihnische Deijwel ('glowing devil')
Swedish: rovgubbe ('turnip man')
As in the British Isles, the lanterns are often said to represent spirits and the children who carry them receive treats. Other times they are placed outside the house to protect the home from evil.
In my own video essay on the pagan origins of Halloween, I demonstrate that just as Halloween has a pagan precedent of Samhain in Ireland, it has other pagan precedents across Europe including Slavic Dziady, Baltic MΔrtiΕi or MΔrtiΕdiena, and the Germanic pagan festival which marked the start of Winter and was known in Old English as Winterfylleth, in Old Norse as VetrnΓ¦tr, and included a sacrifice made to elves (ancestral spirits) known as ΓlfablΓ³t.
Therefore this season has always been associated with spirits of the dead in many European cultures and Halloween is highly traditional and far from a merely commercial American innovation.
Prior to the American pumpkin tradition, people in Ireland, Scotland and England used turnips, swedes and mangelwurzels. The lanterns were associated with the Catholic holiday of All Hallowβs Eve in Ireland, but protestants in Britain sometimes moved the festival, such as in Somerset where it was held on the last Thursday of October and was called βpunkie nightβ. Punkie means βjack-o-lanternβ in West Country dialect and these were carried about in a tradition much like trick or treating in America. They didnβt always have faces carved on them, but they were always intended to scare away evil.
The word punkie probably comes from Old English PΕ«can or pΕ«clas which were evil spirits in Anglo-Saxon folklore, cognate to Swedish and Norwegian puke βevil spiritβ. The Irish word pΓΊcaβspiritβ is probably a loan from Old English as the p sound didnβt exist in primitive Gaelic.
The earliest attestations of carving such lanterns are from Worcestershire in England in 1840, Hampshire, England in 1838, and Scotland in 1808. So there is no reason to think it originated in Ireland. Various traditions of bonfires and carrying root lanterns or blazing fagots while going door to door for food existed across the British isles but the switch to pumpkins instead of turnips occurred in the USA.
The tradition of using turnip lanterns was still extant as far East as Sussex in 1973 when it was recorded among children there by Jacqueline Simpson in the Folklore of Sussex. Therefore, the introduction of the American pumpkin jack-o-lantern in Britain occurred while the native turnip tradition still existed, so there has never been a time when British people DIDNT make jack-o-lanterns for this season.
The same kind of tradition is attested in the 19th century among Germanic people on the continent who made vegetable lanterns between late October and early November. This tradition still survives in places and the lanterns are sometimes mounted on poles as they are carried about. Their names include:
German: RΓΌbengeister ('turnip spirits')
German (Swabia): Schreckgesichter ('horror faces')
Swiss: Bochseltieren ('rumble animals')
South Germany and Lorraine, France: Rummelbooze ('turnip disguise')
German (Hesse): Gliihnische Deijwel ('glowing devil')
Swedish: rovgubbe ('turnip man')
As in the British Isles, the lanterns are often said to represent spirits and the children who carry them receive treats. Other times they are placed outside the house to protect the home from evil.
In my own video essay on the pagan origins of Halloween, I demonstrate that just as Halloween has a pagan precedent of Samhain in Ireland, it has other pagan precedents across Europe including Slavic Dziady, Baltic MΔrtiΕi or MΔrtiΕdiena, and the Germanic pagan festival which marked the start of Winter and was known in Old English as Winterfylleth, in Old Norse as VetrnΓ¦tr, and included a sacrifice made to elves (ancestral spirits) known as ΓlfablΓ³t.
Therefore this season has always been associated with spirits of the dead in many European cultures and Halloween is highly traditional and far from a merely commercial American innovation.
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