Awesome purchase at Barnes and Noble today, The Book of Witches: A Spellbinding Guide. It has fantastic illustrations. I can't wait to read it. It looks like a journal/Book fo Shadows. And only 6 bucks!!!

You Are A Walnut Tree

You are strange and full of contrasts... the oddball of your group. You are unrelenting and you have unlimited ambition. Not always liked but always admired, you are more infamous than famous. You are aggressive and spontaneous, and your reactions are often unexpected. A jealous and passionate person, you are difficult in romantic relationships.

What's Your Celtic Horoscope?

You Are a Chimera

You are very outgoing and well connected to many people. Incredibly devoted to your family and friends, you find purpose in nurturing others. You are rarely alone, and you do best in the company of others. You are incredibly expressive, and people are sometimes overwhelmed by your strong emotions.

What Mythological Creature Are You?

Autumn, this one's for you! I took the pic at the Wizard of Oz Museum in Kansas.

Virginia

Leaving tomorrow for Virginia. *sigh* It will be busy. Business trip. Flight home is at 6 AM on Friday. Ugh.

So, I will take a soy candle, pictures of my husband, daughter and dog, a book, my Circle Sanctuary Magazine and the current Fit Yoga. Oh, and my sketch pad and notebook, in case something inspires me I can jot it down.

This makes me weary.

Oh, more awesome gifts today. A Precious Moments " Just Married" and some gift cards from SIL in California. Sears, Home Depot and a SPA CARD!!!!! YAY!

Fireflies

Tons of them!! To ME this is the beginning of summer, truely. I caught one, one of the few bugs I'll touch. It took me about 5 tries to catch one but I finally did! it was much easier when I was younger! lol!

I truely believe these are the Fae of the Midwest.

Goddess Name

Nicneven Scottish Mother
Her Direction is Center.

Call on her to manage Winter, Witchcraft, Divination, Ghosts, Magic, Peace and Protection .

Her symbols are Gourds and Pumpkin.

She has no Totem Animal.

I have chosen this name to represent myself on a friends blog. I feel most closely related to her because of Winter, Witchcraft, ghosts, peace and of course pumpkins. I was born in November in a pumpkin patch.

Some of me

5 snacks I love:

cheese-any

corn on the cob

shit on a shingle

krunchers Hawaiian potato chips

pizza

a good Merlot or Syrah

5 songs I know all the lyrics to:

all on the Born to Run Album


5 bad habits

not flossing

too much stuff

smoking

not eating well

not exercising

5 things I'd do if I was a millionaire

start an antique/art store

go back to Europe

pay off everything

by F a Charger Hemi

buy a farm

5 things I like doing
laundry

photography

reading

sex-sorry! *giggle*

watching trash TV

5 things I'll never wear again

a bikini

stirrup pants

anything in a size 4 or 6

anything remotely snug

my Miller Beach Bum Bash t-shirts

5 favorite toys

my new Faerie dolls

my books and magazines

my Nikon F150

my computer

my friends blogs

Cottingley Faeries

I saw this on the History Channel this morning. Decided to do a search and see what came up. I still believe.

fairy
A fairy is a mythical being of folklore and romance. Fairies are often depicted as diminutive winged humans with magical powers. The tooth fairy exchanges presents, usually coins, for teeth left out or under one's pillow at night. Fairy godmothers are protective beings, like guardian angels.

Fairies should not be confused with gnomes, which are also mythical diminutive humans but are deformed and live underground. Pixies, on the other hand, might be considered a type of fairy known for their cheerful nature and playful mischievousness. An elf might be thought of as a big pixie, often depicted as a mischievous dwarf, such as the Irish leprechaun known for his pranks but also believed to know where treasure is hidden. Elves are sometimes depicted as helpers of magicians, e.g., Santa's helpers.

Belief in such mythical beings seems common in rural peoples around the world. Occasionally, a city slicker who should know better is duped into believing in fairies. An infamous example of such a dupe is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who was conned by a couple of schoolgirls and their amateur photographs of paper fairies (known as the "Cottingley Fairies") taken in their Yorkshire garden. The faked photos are reminiscent of the most famous Loch Ness Monster picture, faked in a similar fashion by Ian Wetherell, as are many UFO photos, e.g., those of Billy Meier. Doyle even published a book on the fairies: The Coming of the Fairies. He and a theosophist named Edward Gardner published the photos taken by 16-year old Elsie Wright of her 10-year old cousin, Frances Griffiths, with Elsie's cutouts of fairies. Doyle and Gardner proclaimed that the photos were not fakes, but the real thing. The real howler, though, was the debate which ensued over whether these were photos of real fairies or psychic photographs which recorded the thoughts of the girls projected onto the film! Doyle, like many who have come before and after him, longed for any proof of a world beyond the material world. His desire to find support for spiritualism led him to a number of delusions. Even so, he wrote great detective stories and in Sherlock Holmes created a mythical being much more interesting than any fairy, even if he didn't know the difference between induction and deduction.

Paramount Pictures has made a movie about Griffiths and Wright called Fairytale: A True Story. Harvey Keitel plays Houdini and Peter O'Toole plays Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

See also Aztec UFO hoax, Carlos hoax, Arthur Ford hoax, Mary Toft hoax, Piltdown hoax, Pufedorf hoax, Steve Terbot, hoax, and the Sokal hoax.



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further reading

reader comments

The Case of the Cottingley Fairies by James Randi
The case of the Cottingley fairies by Joe Cooper
The Tooth Fairy by Adrian Barnett
The Debunking of Three Hoaxes by James Opie
Bourke, Angela. The Burning of Bridget Cleary (Pimlico, 1999).

Carroll, Robert (2004). "Pranks, Frauds, and Hoaxes from Around the World." Skeptical Inquirer. volume 28, No. 4. July/August, pp. 41-46.

Cooper, Joe. "Cottingley: At Last the Truth," The Unexplained, No. 117, pp. 2338-40, 1982.

Crawley, Geoffrey. 1982. The astonishing affair of the Cottingley fairies. (Part 1 of a 10-part series). The British Journal of Photography. December 24, 1982 pp. 1375-1380.

Gardner, Martin. Science: Good, Bad and Bogus (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1981), ch. 9.

Randi, James. An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural (St. Martin's Press, 1995).

Randi, James. Flim-Flam! (Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books,1982).

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Goddess Farmeress'

Hey all you gals who like to far or wish you could farm, or heck just' like to talk about farmin', check out the link to a NEW, AWESOME space. I hvvae called it "Hittin the hay and havin' fun". It's really called "Womenr Who Farm" and here is the link.
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Summer Solstice

Happy Summer Solstice to all my friends (Pagan or not!).

Blessed Be

Here you go!

Daisy

This has been a sad week for many of my friends. Daisy past away while I was in Indiana. Daisy was a new blog friend for me. I was just beginning to get to know her. From what I have read it was sudden and unexpected.

I have lit a candle for healing light to her family and all of her friends.

Take the Quiz here!

And

You scored as faerie, You are a faerie! You love the woods and flying around with your friends. You often wish you could fly around for hours on glittery faerie wings. faerie 80% fallen angel 60% angel 50% mermaid 50% vampire 20% Which mythological creature is most like you? created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as Earth, Your pentacle point is Earth, you are a grounded and centered person, strong and firm, steadfast in your ideals and uneasily swayed! You are the the friend everyone calls when they need sound advice and are generally well liked by everyone you meet. Earth 100% Water 85% Air 85% Spirit 55% Fire 55% (Pagan) What point of the pentacle are you? created with QuizFarm.com

For Daisy

OK, I can't necessarly say this is my favorite, but when I was little my mom taught me this poem and would have me recite it for people!

Bobby Shafto's gone to sea,
Silver buckles on his knee;
He'll come back and marry me,
Bonny Bobby Shafto!
Bobby Shafto's bright and fair,
Combing down his yellow hair;
He's my love for evermair,
Bonny Bobby Shafto

Excellent Summer Soltice Article

The Pagan Spirit Gathering (PSG) is among the celebrations mentioned in
a
recent article about Summer Solstice around the world:

Summer Solstice fests have deep roots
Celebrate the Sun
June 3, 2007
Orange County Register, California
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/travel/newsandnotes/article_1713297.php



PSG 2007 will be held June 17-24 at Wisteria in southeastern Ohio.
Registration Deadline: Wednesday, June 6 -- register right away if you
want
to come!

To register & for more info: http://www.circlesanctuary.org/psg


PSG NEWS: Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Today

was a great day. After the storm, my luv and I went to the Arts & Crafts Show in town. Quite a few artists with some nice stuff with a few crafters thrown in. We gathered business cards of the ones we like to save our pennies for future artwork. Hopefully before they get too famous and then we REALLY won't be able to afford them. Tons of Harley Riders today too.

One of my friends sent me an e-mail saying she and her daughters washed their hair in the rain (with environmentally safe soap) and rinsed off in the gulley fully clothed! I was so enchanted and envious! How I wished I was with them to enjoy the fun. It brought back memories of all the baths I took in the lake gorwing up.

I finished recovering the scrapbook I made for a friend today. I hope she is pleased. I still need to get pages together for the reception and I have some great fabric scraps to start either an altered journal or my BoS.

My muse is beginning to peak in at me. I need to see if I still have a sketch pad floating around here. I have an idea of a sketch I want to do using a self portrait my DD took of herself. As she reads my blogs, this is all I can say!

The current issue of Faeries Magazine is awesome. I may have to keep this one for myself and get another copy for DD. I should get one for miss*R, too as there is an article on Cornwall.

Been doing some research on Ancestry.com. Found a little info on Ezra, the great of mine that served in the Revolutionary War. This enabled me to become a member fo the Daughters of the American Revolution. Found some info on hubby's family, but will need to due some deep digging and document ordering as the last name is very common. I have my lineage on my poppa's side back to the 1600's. momma has hers somewhere and there is a European plaid involved. I bet I could really make a statement the the family plaid and hubby's plaid!!

Quiz Crazee

What Kind of Goddess Are you?

You are the Goddess of Hope. You are the one with faith when things seem hopeless. For you, hopeless is a word that does not exist. You are sweet, caring, and always have a glimmer of hope in you no matter how bad things are. You never give up and love the wind. To you, the wind guides you towards your destiny. You have many friends that never lose trust in you and will believe you no matter what. You are very wise and extremely friendly. When ever someones in need you are there. Please rate and message. ^-^
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Uncanny how true this is!!

I am a Canna What Flower Are You?

"You stand up for what you believe in, even if it gets in the way of what other people think. You are proud of yourself and your accomplishments and you enjoy letting people know that."

How exciting!

Someone is visiting from Tokyo!!!! I wish my visitors would say hi or post.

Busyness

Tomorrow I am off to post the clothespins I made for the clothespin swap. As well as the May Day Fey Day exchange. My partner and I are a little behind on this one! lol! One more round of the doll swap then I am limiting myself. I need to find my *muse* again.

The storm has finally past and now there is somewhat of a sunset.