Our Merry Folk
ElissaI write about British & European calendar customs including their historical roots. Any New Age ideas attached to them are also debunked. Here you will find old ways wisdom to help you navigate life, along with a dash of ancestral common-sense.
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Old May Eve on the Isle of Man
The national flag of the Isle of Man features a triskelion known in Manx as ‘ny tree cassyn’ (the three legs). The symbol of the three armoured legs with golden spurs is debated but its motto ‘Whichever way you throw it, it will stand’ symb...
Our Merry Folk Zine (Bealtaine Issue #1)
Ring-a-Ring-a-Roses-Oh by Frederick Morgan (1856-1927) Towneley Hall Art Gallery & Museum. Image credit: Bridgeman Images
A very warm welcome to the first issue of Our Merry Folk Zine; a monthly patchwork of folk ways that weaves itself ac...
Pre-Christian Rituals of St George's Day
Edward Burne-Jones, ‘The Legend of St George and the Dragon, VI: St George Kills the Dragon’, 1866
The feast of St George falls on the 23rd of April in today’s Gregorian Calendar, but for the Eastern Orthodox Church which uses the older Ju...
Ostara; Ancient Goddess or Romantic Folly?
Spring Maiden by Charles Webster Hawthorne (c.1925)
There are many untruths about the origins of the neo-pagan spring festival of Ostara as well as its namesake the elusive Eostre; a goddess who may or may not have existed before the ninet...
Toxic Heritage
“This feels like an important moment, confirming what we should have expected: that what were previously thought to be pristine archaeological deposits, ripe for investigation, are in fact contaminated with plastics, and that this includes...
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Writing about the folklore and customs of the British Isles with a sprinkling of Slavic and Germanic folk traditions too.
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