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Title

Power of raven, wisdom of serpent : Celtic women's spirituality / Noragh Jones.

Author

Jones, Noragh.

Publication

Edinburgh : Floris Books, c1994.

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Description

238 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Celts > Folklore
• Celts > Religion
• Folk literature, Celtic
• Folklore > Scotland
• Folklore, Celtic
• Women
• Women > Religious life > Scotland

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-238).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Foreword / Caitlin Matthews -- Introduction -- Woman of the house -- Celebrating everyday tasks -- Blessing the household fire -- Ending the day -- Women's work (Dairying -- Calanas or wool-working -- Quern songs -- Doing the baking -- Looking after the hens -- Working in the fields -- Summer on the shieling) -- Becoming a woman of the house -- Woman of loving -- Everyday affection -- Courting and loving -- Rejection and jealousy -- The consolations of religion -- Woman of mothering -- Birth ceremonies -- Brigid the aid-woman -- Love children -- Home learning -- Mary and the mothering of compassion -- Woman of the seasons -- Sun, moon and the elements (Sun greetings -- Moon greetings)
• Festivals of the seasons (St Brigid's feast -- The feast of Beltane (May Day) -- The feast of St Michael -- Christmas and Hogmanay) -- Augury and divination -- Woman of nature -- Animal and bird stories -- Instinct versus civilization -- Attending to the world of nature -- The creatures in Bible stories -- Ethics of killing animals -- Seal lore -- Woman of healing -- Herbal healing -- Safeguarding and encompassing -- Healing plants -- Healing charms -- The healing of livestock -- Healing springs and holy wells -- The evil eye -- Bad-mouthing -- Woman of the fays -- Origins of the fairy people -- Outwitting the fairies -- The hosts of the air -- Fairy lovers and unwanted babies -- Fairy vengeance -- Sisterhood between fairies and mortals -- Changeling children
• The meaning of the fairy world -- Woman of dying -- Ways of seeing the next world -- Dying ceremonies -- Burial and mourning (The mourning-woman) -- Laments -- Celtic spirituality for today -- The Gaelic communities today -- The Iona community (A bridge between past and present) -- Renewing community (Hospitality and conviviality) -- Celebrating the ordinary (Celebrating a new baby -- Celebrating community events) -- Conclusion -- Appendix : the Iona Pilgrimage.

ISBN

0863151868

LCCN

gb^95003054^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library