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Hello all

This topic reminds me of an online conversation I had just the other day with Aidan Kelly on the need for someone to undertake some in-depth research into the historical development of the Feri tradition. It would be fascinating were a U.S.-based scholar able to undertake that investigation, examining the lives of Victor Anderson and Gwydion Penderwen and exploring Victor's claims as to the existence of the pre-Gardnerian Harpy Coven.

Both Philip Heselton's work on Gerald Gardner and the New Forest coven, and Michael G. Lloyd's research into Edmund Buczynski, have shown how those outside the academy can investigate these areas to a fantastic standard and shine light on the enigmatic history of Wicca. If anyone reading this might be in a position to undertake that research, then I would heartily support them in such a worthwhile venture.

All the best!
Ethan


Ethan Doyle White MA

http://ethandoylewhite.blogspot.co.uk/

https://ucl.academia.edu/EthanDoyleWhite



> Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 17:57:56 +1000
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> Hi Sabina,
>
> How interesting! Right... I'm a bit vague on Feri, so while I knew there was
> some sort of peacock deity in there, I don't know much else about it. Or
> should I say "them" as apparently many Feri initiates taught directly by
> Victor have found that he presented Feri to them all completely differently,
> so it doesn't seem to be one of those Witchcraft Trads that can be smoothed
> out into it "canonical" characteristics.
>
> Yes, interesting re the Yezidis in US Interfaith, unfortunate for them being
> persecuted back home though.
>
> ~Caroline.
>
>
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> Hi everyone,
>
> Yes, Caroline -- Victor Anderson's Feri tradition of Witchcraft does include
> the Peacokck Angel as one of its deities, and from my understanding, Feri
> initiates do see a continuity between him and the deity of the Yezedi.
>
> Interesting that Yezedi influence is now being felt in US Interfaith. How
> cool is that?
>
> BB,
> Sabina
>
> Sabina Magliocco
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> Department of Anthropology
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> Wow, that album sounds interesting... and talk of a peacock angel is
> reminding me of the Feri Tradition of Witchcraft which has some sort of
> peacock deity, not sure if it's meant to be evoking the Yezidi angle in any
> way...(as an invented tradition, I mean).
>
> ~Caroline.
>
>
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> Hi, Caroline -
>
>
> Thanks for the heads-up - another one for the shelves of our new Library (
> once the shelves go up, any day now)!
>
>
> The Yezidi immigrants are definitely making their presence felt here in the
> States, religiously and culturally - for example, the dialogue going on with
> Southern Baptist groups ( among others ) in Tennessee, with interfaith study
> groups sharing and comparing their origins and cosmologies.
>
> And as an example of cultural / artistic impact, I would point to the lovely
> acoustic guitar track on William Tyler's 2010 *Behold the Spirit* album,
> entitled "The Cult of the Peacock Angel".
>
> Cors in Manu Domine,
>
>
> ~ Khem Caigan
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> "Heat and Moisture are Active to Generation; Cold and Dryness are Passive,
> in and to each Thing; Fire and Air, Active by Elementation; Water and Earth,
> Passive to Generation."
>
> *Of the Division of Chaos*
> -Dr. Simon Forman