{"id":495,"date":"2005-08-22T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-22T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=495"},"modified":"2010-11-14T22:14:16","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T05:14:16","slug":"495","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=495","title":{"rendered":"The Fairy Faith in Nova Scotia"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries<\/em><\/a> is one of the background books to the Pagan revival, sort of like Rudyard Kipling’s Puck of Pook’s Hill<\/em><\/a>. Graham Harvey and I included some of the Kipling in The Paganism Reader<\/em><\/a>; perhaps we should have included Evans-Wentz too, although I admit to always being a little unsure how to interpret the word “faith” in his title.<\/p>\n

The Fairy Faith<\/em> is also the title of a new video on fairies. A Flash version of the trailer is online<\/a>. I did like the Eskasoni, Nova Scotia, episode.<\/p>\n

The link came from a Colorado Springs Wiccan priestess who said, “I am currently doing research on the Fey preparing to teach a section on working with them to my students…”<\/p>\n

Certainly the older Indian woman in the video clip had no interest in “working with.” She thought it was wiser to give the fairies a wide berth.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: The Paganism Reader<\/em> gets a five-star review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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