Thanks for the love! I'll make sure the music doesn't steal the show next time 😂

Thank you so much for your helpful comment - I'll definitely follow this format in the future then! You're ever so lucky for having orange trees near you, and they sound wonderful as a decoration for the Yule tree 🥰💜💞

Thank you! That's our next venture, we yearn for the mines ⛏

Thank you for your truly heart warming words! It really was a magical weekend, and we can't wait to go back again next year 🥰 Thank you so much for your support and I'm really looking forward to seeing my altar grow naturally with me as I keep learning over the years 💕

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@@Bramble_Fairy Thank You

Fantastic! 💕

Thank you! 💜

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Hey @wotsitorlabart, many thanks for the comment! 😄I know there isn't any concrete evidence of the maypole's symbolism, which I alluded to in the first few seconds of the video. I'd also be surprised if *any* maypoles were ever carved into the shapes of aubergines! I just added that as a little joke as KZbin would probably censor me for adding an image of an actual penis. Lastly, things as late as the 19th century and beyond can be imbued with symbolic meaning - things don't have to be ancient to be sacred or serve an important purpose. Thank you for engaging and please feel free to reach out in the future should you wish to discuss anything further! 💕

This person is ignorant and believes nonsense, celibate the coming summer lmao. The may flower extract from alchemy air in vascular cleaning for blood flow to the member. Which is what the pole is that they dance around. And it was more the Irish/Scottish slaves that were sold to new England iron mills from the Dunbar war of 1635 in England against kingJames . This pics of Scottish highlands from the river sprey around castle grant of grants town Scott land area. So try to forget the misguided simpletons that claim to know and prove they don't when trying to educate everyone. Just saying . Smart people have knowledge , intelligent people understand the knowledge. Again just saying.and quite the contrary there is a plethora of evidence just not were you are looking.

Sources are not certain she was not tortured, I merely detailed the kinds of horrific things that men and women have been subject to during the witch trials. Apologies if this was not clear 🙂

@@Bramble_Fairy all primary sources where very clear about the lack of torture and they couldnt lead her with questions, the scribes couldnt even keep up with the dictations Claiming "she had a vivid imagination" also attempts to discredit her experience and wisdom as made up. A good practice when commenting on traditions other people hold sacred is to do plenty of research and possible reach out to the practitioners within that community

I'm sorry but if a woman comes forwards voluntarily claiming to dance with the devil, turn into a hare and enter the fairy realm, she is not brave, she is unwell 💔

Thank you! I'd absolutely love to come and visit - will definitely be putting Samhuinn in the calendar 😁💕

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This is actually the best back-handed compliment I've ever received, thank you lovely 🥰

Lovely idea, thank you ☺️

No thank you tea leaf reading is more fun. God bless 🥰

Then please do not watch our videos, thank you kindly

It's amazing what you can actually find when you look around out there 💜

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That's really interesting and certainly worth looking more into, thank you! Blessed Ostara! 💕

Actually, other than one line written by the 8th century Anglo-Saxon monk Bede (and it is clear this is his interpretation of the information - he is perhaps assuming the month was named after a pagan goddess) we have no other evidence that a goddess called Eostre ever 'existed'. There is no corroborative evidence at all. Also there is little evidence that a pagan festival was celebrated so early in spring. The word Eostre being linked to east and dawn may simply refer to the month of April with its longer days being the dawn of the year - Eosturmonath. A goddess named Eostre certainly does not appear in any Anglo-Saxon folklore.

@@Wotsitorlabart Some will claim that because Ēostra’s name only appears in one written source; a text from the works of the Venerable Bede, that he invented her, and this Germanic deity never existed. The place and personal names based on her name in the areas she was worshiped however, completely contradict this claim. In addition, the Brothers Grimm, more famous for their collecting of fairy tales, also conducted important work in the burgeoning field of Folklore. The brothers surveyed the local people all around Germany and in neighboring German speaking regions. Through his study of oral history, they discovered that the goddess Ostara was to be found in nearly *all* German speaking areas. The folklore recorded by the Grimms demonstrated that people miles and miles apart retained shared cultural memories of the same goddess. If Bede invented her in England, then how did illiterate peasants in Germany know of her over one thousand years later? Either she was genuinely worshiped, or Bede had an excellent PR team! Bede was born during the early stages of the Christianization of England, when the names of the Anglo-Saxon gods and goddesses would have been common knowledge, and still worshiped in many places. The highly respected father of English history would have been unlikely to invent a goddess of that name. He would have been "called out" on it had he done so. Furthermore, a number of English place names of Saxon origin, such as Eastry in Kent, Eastrea in Cambridgeshire and Eastrington in East Yorkshire, are derived from Ēostra. The Indo-European root of this name is cognate to other dawn goddesses in Europe; for example, the Roman goddess of dawn, Aurora, has the same root. There are many names of gods and goddesses that still survive in the oral traditions, but are either not evidenced, or very sparsely evidenced in the written tradition. The fact that Ēostra does not appear in the written corpus, does not exclude her existence. The Norse Vanir, for example, appear in only three written sources. The Egyptian ritual of the Five Gifts of Hathor only survives in the oral tradition of Egypt; it is very poorly documented in actual texts. Further, Ostara (in another form, ‘Austra’) was verified in 1958 with the discovery of more than 150 Roman-Germanic votive inscriptions to the matronae (female deities) Austria-hena near Bonn, Germany which were dated to the 2nd century AD, well before the Christian era in that part of Europe. The evidence of her existence appears to be rather strong. In addition, the mere fact that in the very places she was most prevalent (Anglo-Saxon England and northwest Germany), the name for the pre-Christian spring celebration is still called by her name (Easter and Oster) and was not overtaken by English and German forms of what in Dutch is “paask”, (Easter - derived for Hebrew “pesach” - Passover) strongly speaks to her existence. Clearly, this was not someone merely 'invented' by Bede as some would suggest. It would seem that such a deity did exist in the Anglo-Saxon and northern German pantheon. Ēosturmônað is one of two A/S month names named for a deity. The other is Hreðmônað (March). named after Hreth.

@@kavikv.d.hexenholtz3474 There is so much that is dubious in your post. But typical are the place names. From 'The English Place-Name Society'; Eastry in Kent was the capital of the eastern province of the Kingdom of Kent (the Lathe of Eastry). Eastrea was originally in the more easterly part of the island of Whittlesea. Eastrington - 'those living to the east' (of Howden). Do you notice a common denominator in these names? Hint - it's not a goddess called Eostre. PS. Austria - originally Ostmark the Eastern March of the Holy Roman Empire.

@@kavikv.d.hexenholtz3474 thank you so much for the interesting information! I'll definitely learning from this for a future video! <3

So glad!

It's mad isn't it? King James had just come back from Denmark where there were already witch trials so he must have been heavily influenced by that as well as being highly superstitious/ paranoid 🌊

​@Bramble_Fairy Gillis Duncan in outlander is just as much a backstabber as her historical counterpart

Thank you Nick 😊

She married Tobias Shipton when she was 24, he passed away a couple of years later and she kept his name. Sadly the townspeople believed she was responsible and were cruel to Ursula in her period of grief so she moved back out of town back to the cave she was born in

That's a great tip! I have been using cardboard to do the same but hadn't thought about natural fabrics to do it too 😀

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