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Continue reading →: Day the Twelfth: Places associated with Herne
Day the Twelfth: Places associated with Herne and their worship. The most notable is Windsor Forest. It was there that he hunted, and in death lead his Wild Hunt. Damh the Bard wrote a beautiful post about his own journey into Herne’s forest here. For those of us wanting to…
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Continue reading →: Day the Eleventh: Festivals, days, and times sacred to Herne.
Day the Eleventh: Festivals, days, and times sacred to this deity. The Horn Dance. I first read about the Horn Dance in Eric Fitch’s book, In Search of Herne the Hunter, mentions a local festival which he believes is “a living echo” of an earlier time. In A Staffordshire village there…
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Continue reading →: Day the Tenth: Offerings – Historical and UPG.
Day the Tenth: Offerings – Historical and UPG. Historically, I can’t find mention. I’ve looked in my books, and naturally on Google. The feeling I get is that historically it’d be meat. Red, raw meat. Admittedly I did have to look up what UPG meant as this 30 day quest…
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Continue reading →: Day the Ninth: Common mistakes about Herne.
Day the Ninth: Common mistakes about this deity. Major one: He is not Cernunnos. Please stop saying that he is another facet of Cernunnos. They are not interchangable. Just like Athena and Diana are not the same Deity – they are individuals! [pause for Monty Python responce] Another facet of…
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Continue reading →: 20 Questions
(Participating in the Pagan Blog Project and not sure what to do for your second Q post?! Do this 20 questions!) 1. What is your favorite witchy movie? The Spirit of Albion! 2. Where is your favorite place to do a spell? In sunshine, outdoors. But! If it’s cold and…
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Continue reading →: Day the Eighth: Variations and regional forms of Herne.
Day the Eighth: Variations on this deity (aspects, regional forms, etc.) He was local to London, to Berkshire, and to Windsor Forest. His reach extended out from there through story, through generations, and then through his comparison to Cernunnos. He certainly isn’t Cernunnos, as Cernunnos is as old as time.…
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Continue reading →: Day the Seventh: Names and epithets.
Day the Seventh: Names and epithets. ep·i·thet (ɛpɪˌθɛt) noun 1. any word or phrase applied to a person or thing to describe an actual or attributed quality: “Richard the Lion-Hearted” is an epithet of Richard I. . Herne…the Hunter. I sometimes refer to him as Herne of Windsor. Depends on both…
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Continue reading →: Finding your Local Quarters
I know there are a lot of traditionalists out there, and I am by no means one of them. When I first began on this path, there was very little online. Each website said you HAD to be in a Coven, which HAD to be Gardinarian or Alexandrian. As for…
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Continue reading →: 30 Days of Devotion – Day Six
Day the Sixth: Other related deities and entities associated with this deity. His association with Cernunnos is certainly his most popular association. Margaret Murray, in her book God of the Witches published in 1931, suggests that Herne is a localised version of Cernunnos. There isn’t a great deal of Herne’s influence…
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Continue reading →: Day the Fifth: Members of the family
Day the Fifth: Members of the family – genealogical connections. None from a historically accurate point of view. He’s told me that he had a wife and child, and that he was one of many children, I was somewhere in the middle and there were a few of us, but since…
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Continue reading →: Plight of the (Pagan) Fan Girl
Let’s face it – at one stage or another, we’ve all Fan-Gender-Neutral’ed over something. As my 30th was soon on the horizon (last week!) I found myself reliving my over-the-top Fangirl attitude over my childhood favourite band – Hanson. Why? Tickets to their show at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney…
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Continue reading →: Day the Fourth: A favourite myth of Herne.
Day the Fourth: A favourite myth or myths of this deity. My favourite is the ending of the story that many writers, and I guess myself when I wrote my short story, graze over. Once Herne died, other men of the hunting party were promoted to his role. With each…
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