The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/tag/grief)
Articles and perspectives on how Pagans, Wiccans, Heathens, Witches, and other polytheists approach grief. These may include personal stories, rituals or rites regarding grief, or more.
“She pushes me under the water quickly, but there’s no violence to it,” writes Luke Babb in a searing encounter with the spirit world. “Still, I panic. I hold my breath, struggle against her, but this is the sort of thing she is. I am the sort of thing that breathes, and so, despite my body’s stubborn refusal, eventually my lungs pull in and I taste the water in the back of my throat.”
Siobhan Ball explores the folklore and science behind rosemary’s ties to memory, and also offers a recipe for garlic and rosemary lamb.
That little wet and bedraggled baby shone his light onto a deep, haunted wound and showed me that my part of that haunted space could heal now because the rest is healing, too. It is a big release to let a ghost go. To let that much darkness go. To cleanse a haunting.
Alan D.D. recounts a story of trying to heal his dying father through magic and pop music.
Alan D.D. nos cuenta una historia de cómo intentó de curar a su padre moribundo a través de la magia y la música pop.