Why I consider myself one of the FeyFirst a few personal facts. I am small (5 feet even), high energy, and high emotion. I've always had prophetic dreams, the ability to see small fey, and to do some other psychic odds and ends I don't want to go into at length here. I am French and American Indian (Cherokee) by blood. My family traces our "bloodline", if you will, through the women. Men are generally discarded after they father a few children, preferably girls. I really am not kidding. My great-grandmother was cordially feared by all as a witch. There are even stories of her returning to watch her own funeral and greeting the gathered relatives. Other family stories document a strong tendency to psychic abilities, including prophetic dreams and sensing danger or catastrophic events involving friends and family far away as the most common. At the minimum, these facts taken as a whole make us witches, by the most common use of the term, be you modern or ancient humans. The ancient Celts and Gauls (Gauls being the French before they were French) would have found us quite a normal family of wise women. The ancient Romans and Saxons, when they invaded, took over, and married into the tribes, would have called us witches, and worse. The verbal histories and mythologies passed down to us from those ancient Celts and Gauls, filtered through Christianity, Romans and Saxons all speak of a "little people" or the "old people" who lived in the forest. They are also often described as being "brown" or darker skinned, as well as smaller in stature. And of course, elusive. Before the infusion of Roman and Saxon blood - the Celts and Gauls WERE small people and undoubtedly those tribal members who did not wish to be assimilated, simply melted into the forests, just as the Native Americans did hundreds of years later in the Americas, when invaded by white folk. Tribal members who still believed in the Old Religion, who revered their wise women - or WERE the wise women - had even more reason to hide. Yet, still, country people - Pagans - would seek the wise woman out for her herbal healings when the Christian priests prayers seemed to of no avail. And so - the "little people", the "old people", the "people of the forest" were simply the remnants of the original tribes of the region - or so I believe. Eventually, to survive, even those people were assimilated to some extent. Still, there are certain charecteristics to mark those who carry much of that blood and culture - the matriarchal nature of the family, the psychic abilities, and even the very small stature (I am a tower among my family - at 5 foot naught). Many families passed on traditions of the Old Religion, even artifacts such as an athame, right down to the present day. And so I do believe I am one of the fey, although I don't believe the fey of that sort were really anything other than a variation on the human race - a bit smaller, darker, and perhaps more in tune with their psychic and magical abilities - which I believe all humans have to varying extents. We came to be called elves and fairies and fey as we melted away and became elusive and hidden from those who would have destroyed us if they could. Now with that said, I have seen the small fey, pixies, sprites and water nymphs. I believe they are quite a different being altogether, more spirit and less corporeal. In "Behaving as if the God in all life Mattered", Machaelle Small Wright describes them as Deva's, and her description of them agrees in many ways with what I have sensed. So there you have it - why I believe I am one of the fey. :D Blessedbe Summer Fey Foovay Posted: Tuesday 17th January 2006, 5:02 PM |
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