In his excellent recent offering "How fare the Landwights?" Lothar makes reference to the Elf-Mill working he and I led at the 2008 Feast of Aegir in Central California...

The working, together with commentary, can be found here...

http://edred.net/community/members/10/vault.php

If you find yourself moved by Lothar's tale, please download it at your pleasure and experiment with it as you will...

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Ristandi

In celebration of the high festival of Eostre, and the lusty stirrings of Spring, I just uploaded a new audio lecture/workshop to the digital downloads section here at edred.net.   This is a much updated and expanded version of an afternoon workshop I gave back in Los Angeles on Valentine's Day 2008.  

Germanic Love Magic and Erotic Sorcery is a complete audio workshop focusing on this most stimulating area of traditional Germanic magic! We’ll look closely at historical and mythic traditions of erotic sorcery and examine their traditional cultural and ethical contexts. We’ll examine a variety of love charms, omens, and rituals drawn from folk tradition and from textual sources like the 16th century Scandinavian grimoires or galdrabækur. We will explore ways to draw upon these various streams of lore, to enrich and better understand our lives and loves in the contemporary world.

This workshop contains over an hour-and-a-half of audio lecture, together with extensive handouts in .pdf format.   For more detailed information, check here... 

Enjoy!

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Ristandi

(image: "Skull" from Dali / Halsmans portrait, In Voluptas Mors (1951).

Hail All!

Just enjoyed Edred's excellent discussion of the Fylgia in RFR # 23.  For those interested in further exploring this aspect of the Self in a practical manner, using concepts and techniques drawn from Germanic Folk tradition, some of these may be found here.

Operative work with the various subtler aspects of the Self is a vital part of the greater Work of the Gild, both in terms of the re-invigorating of the Germanic Tradition, and in terms of the work of Self-Initiation.  As Edred suggests, finding and becoming familiar with your Fetch is a powerful step towards truly Becoming Who You Are...

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Ristandi

Sæmundur's Shadow: Legends of the Black School in Germanic Folklore, Vernacular Religion, and Magical Practice.

This is a presentation I gave as a representative of the Woodharrow Institute at the 4th Annual Conference on Current Pagan Studies at Claremont Graduate University in Southern California.  It concerns a favorite topic of mine, namely, the falsely adversarial attitude members of the modern "Occult" community often take when approaching the Academic study of Magic and Sorcery.  This is an important issue for those of us inspired by Edred's works, which necessarily demand that we straddle those two (not so different) worlds...