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Events, talks and presentations that could be of interest to this group
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I was thinking that it could be a good idea to make a thread, where all kinds of events, talks and presentations that could be of interest to this group can be added by anyone. There is a talk, for instance, between Darragh Mason and Peter Mark Adams about otherworldly encounters on January 23rd. It will also be available on Watkins' YouTube channel, I just read. https://www.watkinsbooks.com/event-details/peter-mark-adams-darragh-mason-otherworldly-encounters This talk, which is part one of two, between Peter Grey, co-founder of Scarlet Imprint with Alkistis Dimech, and Ranveer Allahbadia, creator and host of The Ranveer Show, is also deeply interesting and unusual when it comes to a conversation of this sort in public. https://youtu.be/aPAxVr31Mq4?si=961nkDDU3wf64vF1
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The Lincoln Star Lincoln, Nebraska ? Sat, Apr 14, 1906
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Autism and faeries
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This is a long shot, but if I do not ask I will never get any answers for sure. So does anyone know of any books, or blogs, or other things that relate to autism and faeries? One of the reasons I ask is because I have heard several times about people on the autism spectrum, which includes me, who have had the feeling of being a changeling, of having been misplaced in a family, feeling like an alien in some ways. So is there a link somewhere that can be found? And just to broaden my question so it is more possible to find something: Does anyone recommend books about autism and spirituality, ways of sensing the world, in different ways? Being diagnosed myself very late, at the age of 48 (I am 50 now) makes me want to look back once in a while and try to reconsider different experiences, now with this knowledge about myself.
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Faery-related because of a mystery person being there
I remember reading this and felt like going back to it because of this: "Mysteriously the group also found some upturned pots at the source of a stream, suggesting they were probably a spiritual offering from a medicine man to keep the water flowing down to the settlements below. No-one could imagine how the medicine man had ever reached that point as Dr Bayliss’ team had used specialist climbing equipment to climb the sheer crater walls." https://www.bbcearth.com/news/the-man-who-discovered-an-unseen-world It also says a lot about how important it is to question how we talk about mysteries in the world, not unlike cognitive ethology that has to question its own approach on an ongoing basis.
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Monaghan Northern Standard November 17, 1944 From: kay coggin Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2025 1:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Monaghan Northern Standard November 17, 1944
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Monaghan Northern Standard July 30, 1971
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Fairy Wedding witness
Kilkenny People 1895-current, Friday, December 11, 2020
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Offaly Independent Saturday, December 19, 1936
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The new FIS newsletter is out! Please let me know if you didn't get it. After checking spam etc. We are hoping to have a number of articles on changeling beliefs in the next newsletter in June. If you can contribute, let us know!
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On Fairy Privacy
https://britishfairies.wordpress.com/2025/02/02/keeping-faery-secret/#like-14003 This is an interesting article by John Kruse over at British Fairies which covers how fairies guard their homes and activities. Might the paralysis that many humans experience while interacting relate to alien abduction tales?
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Belfast News-Letter - Thursday 08 January 1976
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One book I look forward to reading soon is "At the Borders of the Wondrous and Magical: Nature Spirits, Shapeshifters, and the Undead in the Never-Ending Middle Ages" by Claude Lecouteux. Description: "Explores how the haunted, magical world of medieval times still surrounds us ? Examines the esoteric side of texts and tales from the Middle Ages, including the enduring presence of haunted areas and power places and the roles of witches, house spirits, rune priests, shapeshifters, and the undead ? Discusses the dividing line between magic and deviltry, as well as the significance of grimoires, bells, blacksmiths, storm callers, and more ? Serves as a guide to a still-present magical and imaginal realm, pointing readers to the borderlands and liminal thresholds that enable access to the other world In this new collection of his writings, scholar and Sorbonne professor Claude Lecouteux reveals that the magical world of the distant past is real and still very present—if you know where to look. Explaining how he makes the texts he studies reveal their hidden teachings, Lecouteux directly explores the esoteric side of medieval myths and tales, peeling back the Christian veneer to show the enduring presence of haunted areas and power places, witches, house spirits, rune carvers, vampires, shapeshifters, and the undead. In tales originating from Greenland and Iceland to Saxony, Romania, and beyond, the author discusses the dividing line between magic and diablerie as well as the significance of grimoires, bells, blacksmiths, and other magical objects and characters. He explores magic in the elements of nature and as illustrated by the art of witches and magicians specializing in weather magic—storm callers and storm dispellers. He examines the medieval mythology surrounding clouds and the mythic significance of mountains in the haunted world of our ancestors, which is still as close to us today as it was to them in the past. Looking at borderlands and liminal thresholds that can serve as gateways to other worlds, the author also discusses land spirits and the rituals needed to engage with them, recognizing how their ownership of the land can never fully be usurped. Through these writings Lecouteux acts as a ferryman, transporting readers into the realms of the wondrous and magical. He enables us to see how the haunted magic of the Middle Ages never ended and how the imaginal realm, standing just beyond the borders of our own, is as vividly real as the material world." Sounds amazing. Which books are you looking forward to?
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When I stumbled upon some of the music by the Romanian composer Doina Rotaru, I quickly thought, that this is how faery music could sound like. Like this, for instance: https://youtu.be/xtmoEx15vj4?si=_0-lj5Xb66JVfHHG It has that seductive, mysterious, quality to it, that I connect with faeries. Which compositions, songs etc. do all of you associate with faeries?
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Edmund Jones is one of our great fairyists and (believing them to be diabolical) collected many accounts from Wales. This was his own childhood experience...
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A good approach to one's experiences
I think, this article speaks of a good, neutral, approach towards having paranormal experiences, including what can be labelled an encounter with faeries, which is why I recommend it and its approach. Fear begets fear, so getting rid of fear of what one experiences, or at least keep it moderate, is an important step in being honest and respectful about it. https://www.patheos.com/blogs/normalizingtheparanormal/2023/12/normalizing-the-paranormal/ The weird thing about this is that some people claim that so many experiences are "superstition", except their own, which they refer to as faith, and, always wrongly, "the real truth about everything", from which they claim to speak. It is a black and white world view, that makes further conversation difficult, often impossible, to have with these people.
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Limerick Leader 1905-current, Saturday, July 07, 1962
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Other-than-human animals and faeries
When I read different stories about faeries, I notice what I believe to be a fabrication supposed to condone the behaviour of humans towards, some, other animals. I think based on other stories that faeries, or at least some of them, do not condone the mistreatment, violence towards and killing of other animals by humans, and I think, it has the same effect on making them disappear out of sight as the destruction of places in nature does. And I think it is very important to look into what is possibly a projection of human ideas and what is actually going on in the world(s) of faeries. It is also deeply interesting to read about stories, where links between other-than-human animals and faeries are talked about. I could read a whole book, if such a book exists, just about that topic. It is also interesting to think about how to interpret the behaviour of other animals, when they react, because of their heightened senses of smell and sound for instance, to experiences that are, usually, out of reach for humans. Can any of you point in the direction of articles, books, clips etc. concerning this topic?
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