Cousins

Cousins ISSUE #13 - August 1993 A place for the Witches, pagans, nature spirits, fey-folk, and assorted elder kin of Sherwood to share ideas, challenges, dreams, and projects, and to stir up a little magic of our own. for more information about Cousins, contact Susan Gavula, sjgavula@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu This Issue's Fun Word: SARCASM A form of humor utilizing exaggerated imitation to satirize vice or folly. (So when people start talking crazy - look for the Smiley- face!) LETTERS Frances Quinn Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa... sorry you could not understand my scrawl last time, I'll try harder with my erratic calligraphy & graduate ...

A place for the Witches, Pagans, nature spirits, fey-folk, and assorted elder kin of Sherwood to share ideas, challenges, dreams, and projects, and to stir up a little magic of our own. *** ISSUE #8 - October 1992 Happy 1st Birthday to Us! *** This Issue's Fun Word: WEDBEDRIP An agreement under which a feudal lord's tenant was bound to provide him, on request, with a day's reaping from the tenant's land. (Thanks to: Sharon Wells) *** LETTERS Pen [...has graciously sent along her list of...] Books of Interest Green, Miranda J. Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend. ISBN #0-500-01516-3 Campanelli, Pauline. Wheel of the Year: Living the Magi...

COUSINS ISSUE #7 - August 1992 pt1 A place for the Witches, pagans, nature spirits, fey-folk, and assorted elder kin of Sherwood to share ideas, challenges, dreams, and projects, and to stir up a little magic of our own. for more information about Cousins, contact Susan Gavula, sjgavula@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu This Issue's Fun Word: CUCULLATUS Latin for Hooded Man. Genius Cucullatus is what the Romans called the statues of Hooded Men that they found throughout Celtic Europe. In Britain, they tended to be triple Hooded Men. They also tended to be phallic. Sometimes they carried eggs, making them fertility images, but one Hooded Man st...

COUSINS ISSUE #6 - June 1992 A place for the Witches, pagans, nature spirits, fey-folk, and assorted elder kin of Sherwood to share ideas, challenges, dreams, and projects, and to stir up a little magic of our own. for more information about Cousins, contact Susan Gavula, sjgavula@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu This Issue's Fun Word: GNOSIS Knowledge of spiritual truth and of the deeper wisdom that is concealed from those without the necessary faith or insight. (Thanks to: Sharon Wells) Gnosis: A Journal of the Western Inner Traditions is also the name of a wonderful magazine, centered on Gnosticism but touching on all kinds of themes from ...

COUSINS ISSUE #5 - April 1992 A place for the Witches, pagans, nature spirits, fey-folk, and assorted elder kin of Sherwood to share ideas, challenges, dreams, and projects, and to stir up a little magic of our own. for more information about Cousins, contact Susan Gavula, sjgavula@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu This Issue's Fun Word: SYNCRETISM Attempted union or reconciliation of diverse or opposite tenets or practices, especially in philosophy or religion; specifically the system or principles of a school founded in the 17th century by George Calixtus, who aimed at harmonizing the sects of Protestants and ultimately all Christian bodies....

COUSINS ISSUE #4 - March 1992 A place for the Witches, pagans, nature spirits, fey-folk, and assorted elder kin of Sherwood to share ideas, challenges, dreams, and projects, and to stir up a little magic of our own. for more information about Cousins, contact Susan Gavula, sjgavula@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu This Issue's Fun Word: TRANSDIMENSIONAL I made this one up myself to describe anyone or anything to which time and space are relative rather than absolute. A transdimensional gateway defies Euclidean physics. A transdimensional being thinks that's just fine. Herne is transdimensional; the old man is not. I'll just keep making up wor...

COUSINS ISSUE #3 - February 1992 A place for the Witches, pagans, nature spirits, fey-folk, and assorted elder kin of Sherwood to share ideas, challenges, dreams, and projects, and to stir up a little magic of our own contact Susan Gavula, sjgavula@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu for more information. This Issue's Fun Word: TANIST The successor apparent to a Celtic chief, usually the most vigorous adult of his kin, elected during the lifetime of the chief. I picked this one because Murry Hope's incessant references to "the Sun King and the Dark Tanist" in his otherwise lucid and fascinating book Practical Celtic Magic were driving me crazy! ...

COUSINS ISSUE #2 - December 1991 A place for the Witches, pagans, nature spirits, fey-folk, and assorted elder kin of Sherwood to share ideas, challenges, dreams, and projects, and to stir up a little magic of our own. contact Susan Gavula, sjgavula@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu for more information. This Issue's Fun Word: PAGAN One who follows the ways of the rural people. From the Latin paganus, a well from which country folk would get their water; later came to mean "farmer," "hick," or "civilian" (when most Romans in a given area were in the army.) Eventually came to denote adherence to a native pantheist/polytheist religion (when ...

COUSINS ISSUE #1 - November 1991 A place for the Witches, pagans, nature spirits, fey-folk, and assorted elder kin of Sherwood to share ideas, challenges, dreams, and projects, and to stir up a little magic of our own. for more information about Cousins, contact Susan Gavula, sjgavula@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu This Issue's Fun Word: METEMPSYCHOSIS The preservation of the identity and/or some or all of the personality of the individual through the process of reincarnation. (If you have ideas about this issue's Fun Word, or a suggestion for another, or even if you think that having a Fun Word is just too Gemini for, well, for words.....