It was Lady Raglan who first coined the term "Green Man" in her 1939 article "The Green Man in Church Architecture" in The Folklore Journal.  He is often seen in relation to Jack in the Green, a figure which is gaining popularity in many seasonal celebrations, pagan or not.  Other names for this figure are Puck, Robin Goodfellow, the Wild Man and the Green Knight. The Green Man has survived centuries of Christianity, and is currently enjoying a popular revival, in both paganism and folklore c...

I love the word wilderness.  It conjures up images of windswept moors and heathland, dark tangling forests and craggy mountaintops.  That spirit of the untamed, the uncivilised, that spark that humanity cannot touch, much in the same way as deity is traditionally viewed.  For many Druids, that wilderness is deity – it has the power to give or sustain life or the power to kill.  It has not and, in many places, cannot be touched by human hands, existing without any human interference.  I like...

Druidry, perhaps more than any other strand of Paganism in the wide weave of spiritual traditions, takes the environment into consideration on so many levels.  Druidry – most commonly believed to be from the old Irish words dru and wid meaning “oak knower”, or even the  Proto-European deru and  weid “oak-seeker” acknowledges this communion with nature in the very roots (pardon the pun) of the word.  Heathenry – one from the heaths, or Wicca (most commonly believed to be from the S...

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