CelticEarthSpirit 
What’s in a name? To Grandma Lukie they were either ‘Stupes’ or ‘Plaisters’.
So what’s the difference? If you look at dictionary definitions you’d run yourself round in circles; I’m not sure that they know the difference…..
The Hawthorn has more connections with ancient beliefs & traditions than almost any other tree. The Lore, traditions, connections with Faerie Folk & magic go back millennia
Oak Trees are living legends, they have been common in Britain for the last 12,000 years, since the last ice-age. Living to be up to a 1,000 years old it is no wonder that they have so much folklore and so many beliefs attached to them.
Oak Trees are living legends, they have been common in Britain for the last 12,000 years, since the last ice-age. Living to be up to a 1,000 years old it is no wonder that they have so much folklore and so many beliefs attached to them.
British Folk Customs are a legend in their own right. British traditions can be downright WEIRD.
Reindeer antlers and dead horse skulls – customs that have been practiced for thousands of years, and they are STILL GOING.
The Wild Hunt; a belief that occurs in all regions of the Boreal Forest (A circumpolar forest that rings the Northern Hemisphere. Mostly north of the 50th parallel). A belief that may be as old as mankind itself. In Welsh mythology Gwynn ap Nudd is the leader of the wild hunt. Apart from being the leader who is Gwynn? What exactly is his role?
Elen of the Ways – A female antlered deity. The oldest Goddess of the British Isles dating back to Paleolithic times.
What do we mean by ‘The Land on Which We Stand’? Why should we take the land into consideration?
Geology (the solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time) affects and infects the people who live upon it.
Why ‘Myrrh – A Magi’s Cure’ ? The first meeting with Myrrh for most people in western cultures would have been as one of the gifts that the three wise men (the Magi) brought to the infant Jesus; but Myrrh has a history dating back thousands of years that boasts antiseptic and anti-inflammatory properties.
OK – so we changed the name of the blog from EarthBlog to SecretGarden – Why? In the SecretGarden explains.
There was nothing wrong with the name EarthBlog per se. It had seemed a natural name to pick; being the blog section of Celtic Earth Spirit whose aim is to be a resource of all things ‘Old Ways’; our indigenous earth-centred culture.
What is called Wildcrafting today we used to call foraging when I was a kid.
As a child, in the 1960’s, I spent many happy hours grubbing about in hedgerows and other wild places, seeking out our indigenous plants for my grandmothers ‘recipes’.