The Way of the Seabhean

Author: AMANTHA. MURPHY
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910559635
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
"The seabhean (pronounced 'sha-van') is the Irish female shaman, healer and seer, the woman who walks between the worlds." What if we didn't have to look to other traditions for our spiritual practice? What if we could connect to the roots of our own ancestors' rituals? Amantha Murphy was schooled in the ancient and hidden lore of wise women and healers, rooted in the Irish landscape and guarded over the years by her female forebears. In The Way of the Seabhean, she brings to life shamanic practices from the Irish tradition, combining story, ritual, energy teaching and the insights gathered from her own shamanic journeying. At its core lies the pre-Celtic understanding of the Tree of Life and the Wheel of the Year, containing the seasonal turning points such as Samhain and Imbolc, their attendant festivals and the role and powers of long-suppressed Irish goddesses. Along with the better-known goddesses, Medb, Brigid, Áine and the Cailleach, we also meet a pantheon that includes Tailtiú, Boann, Macha, Tlachtga. These goddesses are archetypes, aspects of ourselves, which can help us to understand and embrace our many facets. Amantha's shamanic teaching in Ireland, the US and Canada has already opened the Way of the Seabhean to an eager audience.

Moods of Motherhood

Author: Pearce H Lucy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910559215
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
Moods of Motherhood gives voice to the often nebulous, unspoken tumble of emotions that motherhood evokes: tenderness, frustration, joy, grief, anger, depression and love. Lucy H. Pearce explores the taboo subjects of maternal ambiguity, competitiveness, and the quest for perfection, offering support, acceptance, and hope to mothers everywhere.

Meeting the Other Crowd

Author: Eddie Lenihan
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101167335
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
"The Other Crowd," "The Good People," "The Wee Folk," and "Them" are a few of the names given to the fairies by the people of Ireland. Honored for their gifts and feared for their wrath, the fairies remind us to respect the world we live in and the forces we cannot see. In these tales of fairy forts, fairy trees, ancient histories, and modern true-life encounters with The Other Crowd, Eddie Lenihan opens our eyes to this invisible world with the passion and bluntness of a seanchai, a true Irish storyteller.

The Encyclopaedia of Celtic Wisdom

Author: Caitlin Matthews
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780712611053
Category : Celts
Languages : en
Pages : 456

Book Description
A guide to Celtic spiritual traditions. It contains translations of primary Celtic texts, including stories, poems and prose pieces, some dating as far back as the 7th century. Topics covered include: shamanic memory; Druidic divination and prophecy; shapeshifting, soul-loss and restoration; and magic and healing. These ancient texts are accompanied by detailed commentaries, background material and practical shamanic insights.

The Sorcery Trial of Alice Kyteler

Author: Richard de Ledrede
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 108

Book Description
"The contemporary Narrative of the 1324 Sorcery Proceedings against Alice Kyteler (of Kilkenny, Ireland), a document of extraordinary importance, is the first recorded instance of a woman being accused of gaining the power of witchcraft through sexual inte"

A Path through the Forest

Author: Luke Eastwood
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1803415126
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
Covering an entire metonic cycle of 19 years (2004-2023) in the life of a druid, this collection covers everything from ethics to gardening with the intention of provoking both thought and action. Of his Druid work the author states “My job is to push the boundaries of Druidic understanding, to challenge the accepted norms and to question what direction neo-Druidry should be headed in. I am not here to comfort and sooth, but to stimulate and promote wisdom and the evolution of Druidic consciousness.

The Burning Of Bridget Cleary

Author: Angela Bourke
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446412326
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 253

Book Description
In 1895 twenty-six-year-old Bridget Cleary disappeared from her house in rural Tipperary. At first, some said that the fairies had taken her into their stronghold in a nearby hill, from where she would emerge, riding a white horse. But then her badly burned body was found in a shallow grave. Her husband, father, aunt and four cousins were arrested and charged, while newspapers in nearby Clonmel, and then in Dublin, Cork, London and further afield attempted to make sense of what had happened. In this lurid and fascinating episode, set in the last decade of the nineteenth century, we witness the collision of town and country, of storytelling and science, of old and new. The torture and burning of Bridget Cleary caused a sensation in 1895 which continues to reverberate more than a hundred years later. Winner of the Irish Times Prize for Non-Fiction

Pagan Portals - Gods and Goddesses of Ireland

Author: Morgan Daimler
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1785354507
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 91

Book Description
A concise guide to the Gods and Goddesses of pagan Ireland, their history, mythology, and symbols. Rooted in the past but still active in the world today, the Gods and Goddesses of Ireland have always been powerful forces that can bless or challenge, but often the most difficult thing is to simply find information about them. This short introductory text looks at a variety of different Irish deities, common and more obscure, from their ancient roots to the modern practices associated with honoring them in, an encyclopedia-style book with entries in easy-to-use sections.

Early Irish Myths and Sagas

Author:
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141934816
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
First written down in the eighth century AD, these early Irish stories depict a far older world - part myth, part legend and part history. Rich with magic and achingly beautiful, they speak of a land of heroic battles, intense love and warrior ideals, in which the otherworld is explored and men mingle freely with the gods. From the vivid adventures of the great Celtic hero Cu Chulaind, to the stunning 'Exile of the Sons of Uisliu' - a tale of treachery, honour and romance - these are masterpieces of passion and vitality, and form the foundation for the Irish literary tradition: a mythic legacy that was a powerful influence on the work of Yeats, Synge and Joyce.

The Celtic Heroic Age

Author: John T. Koch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436

Book Description
A new edition of an invaluable collection of literary sources, all in translation, for Celtic Europe and early Ireland and Wales. The selections are divided into three sections: the first is classical authors on the ancient celts-a huge selection including both the well-known-Herodotos, Plato, Aristotle, Livy, Diogenes Laertius, and Cicero-and the obscure-Pseudo-Scymnus, Lampridius, Vopsicus, Clement of Alexandria and Ptolemy I. The second is early Irish and Hiberno-Latin sources including early Irish dynastic poetry and numerous tales from the Ulster cycle and the third consists of Brittonic sources, mostly Welsh.