This is an interesting, and for me, irresolveable issue.
I do not consider myself "reclaiming feri" - while I did take their skeletal curriculum back twenty years ago, that was the last I ever had to do with that community. I came to Feri through folks who were *not* also reclaiming identified.
Once I *was* initiated, and began to meet folks who had started out as reclaiming and ended up as feri, I found the similarity to what it was I did was quite uneven. Thorn is a good friend, but it is also very clear to me that her roots were in reclaiming. Some things we do are the same, some things are sort of different, or perhaps more correctly, the same basic premise informs two different manifestations. I've had the benefit of circling with some folks who started out reclaiming, ended up Feri, and after we worked together, we had both cross-fertilized enough to feel our common ground.
So, I guess there *are* lines, and I've seen some folks delineate lines based on the coven in which one was a member. I'm a founding member of Night Hares Coven, and some have called us the "Night Hares Line" because we work a particular way, heavily flavored by Victor's last decade and a half, and by Gwydion's poetry. But it seems to me that this gives our coven too much prestige in a consideration of the larger Feri community.
So, I think you have to ask each person whether they see themselves as a member of a particular line. Usually, reclaiming feri will self-identify as "reclaiming feri," rather than simply Feri. Night Hares, on the other hand, will almost always state (if not strongly) that we are simply Feri (of the Victor Anderson variety).
Tom
Seattle
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, mapremshya wrote:
> Hi Tom and all;
> I am curious to know whether Feri is breaking into different branches. (or perhaps it is Reclaiming breaking into different branches!). While Reclaiming has always had a strong Anderson influence, there now appears to be a Reclaiming Feri offshoot. Do you see yourself, Tom, as part of this line (Thorn, Oak, Dawn et al) or a different line, and if so what would that lineage be?
> Thanks
> Shya Young
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> As I am a Feri initiate as well, this topic was discussed among a list consisting of initiates, and one of the two people responsible for its adoption into Feri liturgy admitted that it was taken from Crowther's published work and then slightly rewritten. Prior to this, a prominent member of a CVW tradition had claimed that he had shared it with Gabriel Carillo (aka Caradoc ap Cador) and it was from CVW that Feri adopted it. I'm more apt to believe the former as a reliable source. Regardless of source, however, the Dryghton prayer doesn't come into Feri until 1975 at the absolute earliest, in the form Pitch quoted it.
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