Ancient Spirit by B. Faulkner

Table of Content: Editorial: By Deidrui Callaway Section I - Lughnasadh What is Lughnasadh?.....................................................................Various Sources Who is Lugh?................................................................................Various Sources The Story of Lugh and Balor..........................................................Various Sources Meaning........................................................................................Unknown Section II - Associations Customs Sports and Games.........................................................................Various Sources Plants, Herbs, Colors & Oils.........................................................Various Sources Goddess & Gods..........................................................................Various Sources Faery Folk....................................................................................Various Sources Section III - Poetry & Articles For the Witch who has everything...................................................by Mac Poetry: Lammas Dinner..................................................................by Mac Prepare Yourself for a Bountiful Harvest.........................................Archives of llewellyn Lammas.........................................................................................by Weaverly Fitzgerald Section IV - Kitchen Witch Recipes: Beer Buns.....................................................................................Unknown Lammas Oatmeal-Apple Bread.....................................................Eleanor Roosevelt Perfect Corn Bread.......................................................................Unknown Stuffed Mushrooms.......................................................................Unknown Noodles in Faery Butter................................................................Wisteria's Faery Lammas Tides...............................................................................Unknown Purification Potion.........................................................................Unknown Herb Scented Flatbread................................................................Unknown Berry Vacherin..............................................................................Unknown Apricot-Peach Cake......................................................................Unknown Cherry Lemonade...........................................................................Unknown Grilled Pork Chops with Peach Tomato Barbecue Sauce.................Unknown Chicken with Brandied Fruit and Almonds.......................................Unknown Corn On The Cob With Herb Butter................................................Unknown Herb Butter.....................................................................................Unknown Garden Vegetable Couscous............................................................Unknown Cornmeal Fried Green Tomatoes.....................................................Unknown Guacamole......................................................................................Unknown Oils & Incense: Lammas Oil #1................................................................................Unknown Lammas Oil #2................................................................................Unknown Lugh Oil...........................................................................................Unknown Lughnasadh/Lammas Incense............................................................Unknown Lughnasadh Incense..........................................................................Unknown Crafts Make a Garlic Braid............................................................................Unknown Decorating Clay Pots A project for the whole family.............................Stefani Leto Making a Pentacle Altar Tile................................................................Unknown Gourd Drum........................................................................................Unknown Kids Corner Children And Lammas................................................................................. Jen Corn Husk Doll...........................................................................................Unknown Harvest Seeds of Art...................................................................................Unknown Nature Hike Cane.......................................................................................Unknown Enough For All Feeders...............................................................................Unknown Corn Print Place Mats.................................................................................Unknown After Ritual Sprout Necklace.......................................................................Unknown Walnut Wish Boats......................................................................................Unknown Closing.......................................................................................................Deidrui Callaway Section V - Classifieds For Sale Pagans Hiring Pagan Pagans Seeking Jobs Greetings Everyone, We here at Avalon Forest would like to welcome you to our issue dedicated to Lughnasadh. Here we will give you a beif description of this wonderful Sabbat that we celebrate along with articles that represent Lughnasadh in order to help you as a solitar or someone just coming into the the pagan world better understand our way of life and how to celebrate this wonderful Sabbat that many of us do. This newsletter is more Celtic oriented but there will be articles of other paths and beliefs in the newsletters as they come out. We are only doing the High Sabbats for now and will eventually work on the lower sabbats when time permits. You may want to print out these newsletters as they will be filled with information and add to your BoS (Book of Shadows). Avalon Forest is a tolerant site and can be found at http://PhenomForest.com/avalon.html for those of you who dont know about Avalon Forest it as the best little BoS on the net today. It is quite extensive and is alway being updated. We also have music for your listening pleasure at http://www.phenomforest.com/rip.php. If you would like to share your stories, poems, recipes with others please submit them to ThinkingDemon@aol.com. To submit your writings please mark subject heading: AFN: Story, Poem, or Kitchen Witch. All articles must be submitted by these dates in order to be published: Samhain - Sept. 1 Yule - Nov. 1 Imbolc - Jan. 1 Spring Equionx - Feb. 1 Beltane - March 1 Midsummer - April 1 Lughnasadh - June 1 Autumn Equionx - Oct. 1 We hope you enjoy this newsletter and get much out of it. Deidrui Callaway /|\

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