Art by Ed Org

The modern Welsh name for fairies is y Tylwyth Teg, the fair folk or family. This is sometimes lengthened into y Tylwyth Teg yn y Coed, the fair family in the wood, or Tylwyth Teg y Mwn, the fair folk of the mine. They are seen dancing in moonlight nights on the velvety grass, clad in airy and flowing robes of blue, green, white, or scarlet…They are spoken of as bestowing blessings on those mortals whom they select to be thus favoured.

Wirt Sikes

The name Puck was originally applied to the whole race of English fairies, and there still be few of the realm who enjoy a wider popularity than Puck, in spite of his mischievous attributes. Part of this popularity is due to the poets, especially to Shakspeare. I have alluded to the bard’s accurate knowledge of Welsh folk-lore; the subject is really one of unique interest, in view of the inaccuracy charged upon him as to the English fairyland.

Wirt Sikes

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There’s no such thing as purity spiral. You either follow ancestral traditions properly or not. When you turn a blind eye on your community having an atheist-zoophile because you don’t want to purity spiral or whatever you belong on a cross right next to your degenerate buddy. Those who know whose position I described-throw a bolt just to let me know the numbers.

Cowbells

One of the few remaining European cowbell masters from Romania, who still makes them by hand.

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Freyr with the golden Boar Gullinbursti

"Nor are the women hurried early into marriage: the same age and the same full growth is required for both husband and wife: as a result the two sexes unite equally matched and physically healthy; and so the children inherit this strength from their parents."

- Roman historian Tacitus on the virtuous sexual morality of the Germanic Pagans his "Germania" 98 AD

Do I not then deservedly detest all you philosophers…men whom not only did Lysimachus the king banish from his own dominions, as Carystius tells us in his Historic Reminiscenses, but the Athenians did so too. At all events, Alexis, in his Horse, says:

Is this the Academy; is this Xenocrates?
May the gods greatly bless Demetrius
And all the lawgivers; for, as men say,
They’ve driven out of Attica with disgrace
All those who do profess to teach the youth
Learning and science.

Athenaeus of Naucratis

Sophocles, passed a decree to banish all the philosophers from Attica. And Philo, the friend of Aristotle, wrote an oration against him; And the Romans, who are in every respect the best of men, banished all the sophists from Rome, on the ground of their corrupting the youth of the city...And Anaxippus the comic poet declares your folly in his Man struck by Lightning, speaking thus:

Alas, you’re a philosopher; but I
Do think philosophers are only wise.
In quibbling about words; in deeds they are,
As far as I can see, completely foolish.

Athenaeus of Naucratis

Antiochus the king banished all the philosophers out of his kingdom, writing thus—“King Antiochus to Phanias: ‘We have written to you before, that no philosopher is to remain in the city, nor in the country…As soon, therefore, as you receive this letter, order a proclamation to be made, that all the philosophers do at once depart from those places, and that as many young men as are detected in going to them, shall be fastened to a pillar and flogged, and their fathers shall be held in great blame.

Athenaeus of Naucratis

It is, therefore, with good reason that many cities…will not admit either rhetoric or philosophy, on account of the jealousy, and strife, and profitless discussions to which they give rise; And it is owing to this, too, that Theodorus the Atheist was put to death, and that Diagoras was banished; and this latter, sailing away when he was banished, was wrecked.

Athenaeus of Naucratis

Well then did the Romans, who are in every respect the most admirable of men, banish Alcius and Philiscus the Epicureans…And in the same manner the Messenians by a public decree banished the Epicureans.

Athenaeus of Naucratis

Have a merry Kupala!

Kupala

Traditional Kupala folk song

Kupała, Wojciech Gerson, 1897

The Eve of Ivan Kupala

Witold Pruszkowski

This painting depict a traditional search of magical fern flower which only blossoms on Kupala night