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The Small-Town Pagan's Survival Guide

How to Thrive in Any Community

By: Bronwen Forbes

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The Small-Town Pagan's Survival Guide

How to Thrive in Any Community

By: Bronwen Forbes

Are you living in—or moving to—a small community and wondering how you'll fit in, connect with other Pagans, and live your beliefs in peace? This wonderfully unique book is filled with ways to nourish your Pagan soul in small towns, suburbs, and any place outside the city limits. Along with Bronwen Forbes' own experiences, Pagans from close-knit communities across the country offer hard-won wisdom and advice on all aspects of staying true to yourself and your spirituality. —Starting a coven or study group —Getting along with non-Pagan neighbors —How to find and make ritual tools —Celebrating the Sabbats —Home decoration —Dating non-Pagans —Following Pagan etiquette —When and how to reveal your beliefs —Raising Pagan children After reading the book, join the discussion online at groups.yahoo.com/group/smalltownpagans, where you can make more enriching connections.

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Llewellyn Worldwide

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0738729787

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9780738729787

Make Merry in Step and Song

A Seasonal Treasury of Music, Mummer's Plays & Celebrations in the English Folk Tradition

By: Bronwen Forbes

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Make Merry in Step and Song

A Seasonal Treasury of Music, Mummer's Plays & Celebrations in the English Folk Tradition

By: Bronwen Forbes

See the blazing Yule before us..." This is just one of the many ancient British folk songs we all know and love. Other tunes and symbols that tug on our memories have similar historical roots, hearkening back to a shared Pagan past. These dances, songs, and theatrical plays in the English folk tradition are now little known to most of the modern Pagan community. Reviving these vital traditions can bring new life to Renaissance festivals, neopagan rituals, and community events. Introducing the lively music and homegrown entertainments of times long past, this descriptive how-to is designed for twenty-first-century joviality. The songs, dances, and plays of old are explained in their mythical, seasonal, and historical significance and outlined for easy reenactment. Simple-to-follow instructions detail six dances including the popular Abbots Bromley Horn dance, six full scripts for dramatic performances of Mummer's Plays (folk plays of death and rebirth), and over thirty songs with lyrics and music. Kick up your heels, hold high your skirts, and make merry the year through.

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Llewellyn Worldwide

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073871500X

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9780738715001

Dreams and Divination from Byzantium to Baghdad, 400-1000 CE

By: Bronwen Neil

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Dreams and Divination from Byzantium to Baghdad, 400-1000 CE

By: Bronwen Neil

Why did dreams matter to Jews, Byzantine Christians, and Muslims in the first millennium? Dreams and Divination from Byzantium to Baghdad, 400 - 1000 CE shows how the ability to interpret dreams universally attracted power and influence in the first millennium. In a time when prophetic dreams were viewed as God's intervention in human history, male and female prophets wielded was unparalleled power in imperial courts, military camps, and religious gatherings. The three faiths drew on the ancient Near Eastern tradition of dream key manuals, which offer an insight into the hopes and fears of ordinary people. They melded pagan dream divination with their own scriptural traditions to produce a novel and rich culture of dream interpretation. Prophetic dreams enabled communities to understand their past and present circumstances as divinely ordained and helped to bolster the spiritual authority of dreamers and those who had the gift of interpreting their dreams. Bronwen Neil takes a gendered approach to the analysis of the common culture of dream interpretation across late antique Jewish, Byzantine, and Islamic sources to 1000 CE, in order to expose the ways in which dreams offered women a unique opportunity to exercise influence. The epilogue to the volume reveals why dreams still matter today to many men and women of the monotheist traditions.

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Oxford University Press

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0192644521

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9780192644527

New Zealand Cycling Legends 01 - Phil O'Shea - Wizard on wheels

By: Jonathan Kennett,Bronwen Wall

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New Zealand Cycling Legends 01 - Phil O'Shea - Wizard on wheels

By: Jonathan Kennett,Bronwen Wall

Cycling Legends is a series of books detailing New Zealand's ten greatest cyclists. The first in the series tells the story of Phil O'Shea, the greatest of them all. Born in 1889, O'Shea's quiet, unassuming persona was juxtaposed by an extraordinary athletic ability. He won every track and road cycling title he set his mind to, during a time when competitive cycling was one of the world's most popular sports. He went to Australia and won their road championships three years straight. After 1923, he concentrated on track racing. Champions from around the world were imported for O'Shea to compete against in front of home crowds. After a long racing career he coached other champions, ran a cycle shop in Christchurch, and continued cycling until he was 90.

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0958349088

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9780958349086

Slash and Burn

By: Valerie Bronwen

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Slash and Burn

By: Valerie Bronwen

The Angels and Demons Literary Weekend brings former New Orleans resident Winter Lovelace back to town from her gig as writer-in-residence at a prestigious women's college in upstate New York. Winter desperately needs a break from the book she is struggling to finish, and hopes that this weekend will inspire her and trigger her creativity. But while waiting for a friend in a hotel courtyard, a body lands at her feet, and Winter is dragged into a baffling mystery quite against her will. The victim is a notorious m/m romanceî author who is also a homophobe, and the list of people who wanted her dead is quite extensive. Winter herself is considered a suspect! To make matters worse, Winter's ex shows up to cover the story for a local news stationan ex Winter had hoped she'd never see again.

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Bold Strokes Books Inc

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1626390231

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9781626390232

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The Small-Town Pagan's Survival Guide

The Small-Town Pagan's Survival Guide

Make Merry in Step and Song

Make Merry in Step and Song

Dreams and Divination from Byzantium to Baghdad, 400-1000 CE

Dreams and Divination from Byzantium to Baghdad, 400-1000 CE

New Zealand Cycling Legends 01 - Phil O'Shea - Wizard on wheels

New Zealand Cycling Legends 01 - Phil O'Shea - Wizard on wheels

Slash and Burn

Slash and Burn

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