The Hama and Its Faring: Evidence for a Pan-Germanic Spirit-Travel Complex

The Hama and Its Faring: Evidence for a Pan-Germanic Spirit-Travel Complex - Ingwina Ferræden

Introduction Among the many difficulties attending the reconstruction of pre-Christian Germanic religious practice, the question of intentional spirit-travel — the […]

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Gang, I am consolidating all the magic and soul-lore stuff in here too, so we get better use from groups.

Guys, we have too many groups and they are dead. Can I consolidate a few?

@jackiebird @thehoptimist @jorre @bearscottco

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Yeah, why don’t we make a forum thread here for that?

That may indeed be related! Does look like a preference for white stones.

Does anybody here know who Charmer of Bees is? They have been accidentally removed from discord.

Comparative Family Trees

Old English (Beowulf proem): “Shield, son of Sheaf” — boat-funeral for Scyld; no boat-birth.

• Sceaf (“Sheaf”) — progenitor; no narrative here of a boat-birth in Beowulf
  • Scyld Scefing (“Shield, son of Sheaf”) — founder-king; ship-funeral described
    • Beow…

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Boat-foundling and founder-king motifs in Germanic traditions

Tradition
Foundling?
Name
Meaning
Role

English (later chronicles)
Yes
Sceaf
Sheaf
Found in a boat with grain; father of Scyld.

English (Beowulf)
No
Scyld Scefing…Read More

Making a thread to capture lore and research on this subject.

Scyld, Sceaf, and Beowa in Anglo-Saxon and Danish Tradition

This comparison outlines the roles of Scyld, Sceaf, and Beowa across early sources, with interpretive notes highlighting their mythic functions and relevance for veneration—especially within a harvest rite like Bendfeorm.

🛶 Sceaf: The Culture-Bringer

• Source: Anglo-Saxon C…

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The above looks right, but is AI assisted content, VALIDATE EVERYTHING.

The Bendfeorm: Structure of an Anglo-Saxon Harvest Feast

Hosts and Providers of the Bendfeorm

In Anglo-Saxon England, the Bendfeorm (also spelled bén-feorm) was a communal harvest feast held at the end of reaping (the “binding” of grain sheaves). It was typically hosted by the lord of the manor as one of the great customary feasts he was expe…Read More

This is a thread to capture our lore-gathering efforts for Bendfeorm.

https://historyofeconomicthought.mcmaster.ca/hone/manor.pdf

This is a source that addresses Bendfeorm (corrupted to Benfoeorm) in a post-medieval document. I will add other relevant sources below, and other can do so too.

I wanna highlight the relevant text that Hirut pointed out in discord:

*** In times of disaster, a few twigs were thrown into the hearth fire.

Prayers to Saint Donatus, patron saint of thunderstorms, were often said, or the Gospel of St. John was read. This

is because St. John’s wort is also found in the kroedwusj.

This custom recalls the…Read More

🌿 Hælgwyrt-tīd: Reclaiming the Pre-Christian Roots of the Herb Blessing Tradition

In the modern Heathen revival, many of us are rediscovering the sacred rhythms that once shaped life in pre-Christian Europe. One of the more enigmatic survivals is the mid-August herb blessing ritual known today in German-speaking regions as the Kräuterweihe—a trad…Read More

I’d like to make this post to open the discussion on a possibly official or semi official herb blessing to take place on or about 15 August, preferably for magical purposes the full moon of Weodmonaþ.

Sources to explore:

Lorsch Leechbook
St Gall Botanicus
Capitulare de Villis
Plan of St Gall
Fulda Liturgical Calendars
Gelasian Sacramentary
St.…Read More

Jorre,

Your picture was too big. an you scale it down?

I just wrote a blog on crystal and gems, and how they are NOT out of place in Ingwine Heathenship as apotropaic or talismanic purposes. So let’s go full bore, howabout a little chart of correspondences for the purpose of Leechdom?

Stone/Crystal
Traditional Associations
Early Sources / Context

Amber…Read More

Coatis!

This is some random Mexico flower, this is just a test post, to see if I can upload an image.

This thread is for Bendfeorm Lesson assignments.

This thread is for Litha and Midsummer Lesson assignments.

This thread is for Blostm-freóls lesson assignments.

This thread is for Eáster Feast Lesson assignments.

This thread is for Lenctentide ritual and activity reports, from students in the Heathenship Introductory Journey Course.

Before I forget,

“In Hákonar saga góða, Snorri Sturluson describes hlautteinar (“sacrificial twigs”) being used like sprinklers to spread blood over the stallar (“altars” or “platforms”)…”

In OE we can say “hlot-tān” or “hlot-tānas” PL

Here is a great paper, that discusses Anglo-Saxon Heathen terminology in context of sacrifice and rituals.

Snorri on blót:

In Hákonar saga góða, Snorri Sturluson describes hlautteinar (“sacrificial twigs”) being used like sprinklers to spread blood over the stallar (“altars” or “platforms”), the walls of the hof (both inside and outside) and the people who were present there. It is possible that this description was influenced by the ecc…Read More

Ibn Fadlān and the Rūsiyyah – James E. Montgomery Translation

When) he reaches the large figure, he prostrates himself before it and says, “Lord, I have come from a distant land, bringing so many slave-girls (priced at) such and such per head and so many sables (priced at) such and such per pelt.”29 He continues until he has mentioned all of th…Read More

SIGRDRIFUMOL

Sigdrifa raises a horn to wights and Gods.

https://sacred-texts.com/neu/poe/poe25.htm

So we have some good clues, spread all throughout various sources, about Gield and how it worked. Some folks say “we know so little!” But that is because they searched for the word “blot” and then didn’t do due diligence. I want to capture the various attestations we know about, that show Gield in different contexts.

Saxo. Chapter 39 paragraph…Read More

I wanted to start this thread, to capture research and discussion around these white stones, and how we might incorporate this into our current ritual technology.

https://www.brutenorse.com/blog/2018/3/5/sacred-white-stones-objects-of-an-ancient-scandinavian-fertility-cult