A Green Faerie's Witchcraft Herbal, - from author and fay enthusiast Sorelle Sucere...

Sunday, June 7, 2026

Saturday, June 6, 2026

Rampion... ;)

Once cultivated for its edible roots and leaves, rampion has been cultivated at least since the time of William Shakespeare, who mentioned it in some of his plays. And its cultural footprint extends even further: Rampion is a crucial plot device in the fairy tale "Rapunzel," which is the German name for this once beloved veggie. The root of rampion is small, white, and tender, with a mild, nutty sweetness that made it a good candidate for roasting or boiling, much like a parsnip. Its leaves, by contrast, were eaten fresh in salads, offering a soft texture and pleasant, slightly bitter edge. The plant's tender shoots can be prepared like asparagus, delicious with olive oil, lemon, and sea salt. Gardeners also admired its delicate purple-blue flowers, which made rampion as beautiful as it was delicious. The rampion was root, leaf, and beauty all in one. While this gorgeous, tender veggie is still cultivated by some farmers in France, Germany, and Italy, it's generally fallen out of favor with mainstream cooks.

Wednesday, June 3, 2026

Changelings...

Faeries With Deer Hooves...

Mermaids are beautiful water faeries, but Ursula is an evil octopus queen!!!...

Tuesday, June 2, 2026

What is the faerie called a Jack?...

The faerie is most often called a Jack-o-the-Green or a Green Man — a pagan woodland sprite and nature spirit associated with vegetation, fertility, and the cycles of growth and renewal Sacred Wicca+1. In folklore, the Green Man is depicted as a horned man emerging from a mask of leaves, often the sacred oak, and is linked to the spirits of trees, plants, and the natural world Pagan Green. In the British Isles, fairies are sometimes called “Greenies” or “Greencoats”, and some are believed to have green skin Sacred Wicca+1. Because green is the fairy colour, the Green Man shares a strong affinity with them. In some traditions, the Green Man is seen as a bridge between humans and the faerie realm, embodying the eternal truths of nature Sacred Wicca. The Green Man also appears in seasonal customs, especially May Day celebrations, where he is sometimes called “Green George” — a young man dressed head to foot in greenery who leads processions Sacred Wicca+1. In these rites, he symbolizes the return of life after winter and the fertility of the land. So, while “Jack of the Green” is not a standard faerie name, it likely refers to the Green Man or a similar green-clad woodland spirit, representing the faerie’s connection to nature, fertility, and the green world.

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The History of Midsummer's Eve...

There is evidence that the summer solstice has been culturally important since the Neolithic era, with many ancient monuments throughout Eurasia and the Americas aligned with sunrise or sunset on the summer solstice. In the Julian calendar used in the ancient Roman world, the date of the summer solstice was the 24th of June and Marcus Terentius Varro wrote in the 1st century BC that the Romans saw this as the middle of summer. In the city of Rome, it was the festival of the goddess Fortuna. People thronged the River Tiber and rowed in boats to the temples of Fortuna; "after undisclosed rituals they rowed back, garlanded and inebriated". The Julian calendar had a flaw in that the solstices and equinoxes gradually fell on earlier dates. At the First Council of Nicaea (325), the Christian Church set the date of the spring equinox to the 21st of March on the Julian calendar, for the purpose of calculating Easter. This also brought the date of the summer solstice forward to the 20th of June. --- Wikpedia.

Hmmm...

(Giggle. Snort.) It seems that some misguided human souls think all faeries are beautiful... (Their worlds ARE beautiful) And... Well, --- some are truly beautiful. But, a lot, --- tsk-tsk, just aren't. The Unseelie especially, often AREN'T!!!... They are the boggles, scags, breaknecks, kelpies, redcaps, druggars, goblins, hags, fetches, fire-drakes, knockers, burnt-tails, raw-head-and-bloody-bones', spunks, boggarts, imps, men-in-the-oaks, bonelesses, incubusses, buttery spirits, sucubusses, hob-headlesses, buggaboos, spectres, wraithes, gringes, dopple-gangers, yeth-hounds, water leapers, vila, tritons, vodyanoi, gargoyles, fox spirits, pixies, salmanders, winged panthers, changelings, bull-beggars, spriggans, death-hearses, bolls, sirens, black dogs, giants, satyrs, leshys, pookas, noggles, krakens, manticores, madcaps, fiends, fates, swarths, bygorns, gringylows, bunyips, lamia, tengu, harpies, nixies, trolls, hobthrusts, shocks, salamanders and dragons of the for elements, --- water, fire, earth and air, of course. (To name only a few, --- believe it, or not!) ;)

I'm working on this... It takes place in ancient Eire and in the magnificent faerie lands (seen in the images, below) where the Dagda, the All-father, the High King of the Tuatha de Dannan, rules. Aonghus Mac Og, his seventh child, faerie god of love, youth and beauty, is the hero of "ELFSTROKE". Hmmm... The Bad Faeries are rebelling, and they're desperate. Queen of the Bad Faeries, Mab, has her blue hands full. There is a plague of impotency in the lands of the Unseelie. The Bad Faeries are convinced that bringing back the lovely and fragile extinct faerie race of pleasure slaves, the Myads, would be the remedy. Mab has her scientists working on a plan which has as it's basis using Aonghus as a sire and the beautiful human May Murphy, who has considerable Myad blood, as a vessel. Mab's problem: how to use her evil magic to get them together and somehow harvest their Myad offspring. Of course, Mab is as unscrupulous and manipulative a faerie queen who ever lived!

OKAY. OKAY. Who ARE The Fay???...

That's a question that's pretty hard to answer... According to some thought, there are two types of life: corporeal and in corporeal, --- or earthly and solid and spirit and unsolid. Faeries belong to the later type of life. It is believed that they perhaps "put on" physical form for the benefit or detriment of humans. Yes, --- the detriment, for many, many of the fay ARE NOT NICE. They are definitely NOT cute and cherubic sweeties, as they were thought to be and painted in pictures in Victorian Times. According to folklore, there are two governments of faeries: the Seelie Court, or the Good Fay, and the Unseelie Court, or the Bad Fay. According to some folklore and Shakespeare, King Oberon and Queen Titiana rule over the Good Fay and Mab, the Blue Faerie Queen. rules over the Bad Faeries. >>> Where did the Fay come from?... Some say they're extraterrestrials who came to earth in "dark ships" (cloaked?) eons ago. Others say they're evil spirits, demons from hell and fallen angels, or pagan gods. Others say they're the dead, or simply primitive nature spirits. >>> Will I ever see them?... According to folklore, seeing faeries as if you were looking at any solid object is so incredibly, incredibly rare that's it's hardly worth talking about, --- one person in many, many, many millions. Those who truly DID see faeries with their actual human eyes were, according to stories, whisked away by the fay immediately because faeries don't like to be seen! Some humans said they "saw'" the fay with an "inner eye," and that they sensed faeries just out of their actual eyesight. But, some people will never, ever have any faerie contact, --- the cruel of heart, the greedy, the spiteful and selfish. The fay love the very unselfish humans who will give and give without ever expecting anything back, who are gentle, heroic and strong, who will fight endlessly to protect the helpless and innocent and those who tenderly love animals and nature. >>> Are the Fay still with us?... Folklore says that they were everywhere in the Celtic Isles centuries and centuries ago and actually practically every nation and culture has tales of faeries, but that the fay have dwindled greatly because modernization and technology are their most serious mortal enemies. They have said, very sadly, and repeated and repeated that, --- "We go. We go..." But, do they REALLY GO???!!!... Faeries are very capricious and unpredictable. They delight in being that way!!! >>> WELLLLLLLLL!!!!!... NOW. that you know a bit about the fay, whether you believe they're REAL is REALLY, REALLY very much up to YOU!!!

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE don't pour poison on the breast of our Mother, The Earth!!!...

The "Green Life" Is Such Fun...

I can hardly remember when I wasn't interested in plants. I love it all, - from wild woodlands where everything grows in a tangled jumble, to sculptured, formally structured gardens, like you might see on a castles grounds. [Although, I must confess a definite preference toward the wild side of gardening.]

***Please note: I live in Zone 5, in the U.S.A., if you plan to garden, according to my suggestions, you might have to adjust to your own growing conditions. The weather where I live gets to be hot and humid to frigidly cold, - 90 degrees, F., in July, - and can reach lows of -15 in January with mild lovely Springs with plenty of rain, and brisk glorious Autumns.

It's amazing, the variety of plants that can be called herbs: Did you know that roses are considered herbs?... Yes, roses are, of course, used in aroma therapy, and they are among the edible flowers. [I have eaten rose hip jelly. It's delicious!]

Some of my favorite herbs are: oregano, basil [Ah, that basil pesto!], rosemary, lavender, sage [I love the purple stemmed variety.], Lemon balm, the wide variety of mints and the scented geraniums - rose, lemon, apple and mint.

If you know me at all, you know that I love folklore. There are many faerie folk tales involving woodlands and the "green" life. Faeries love all wild natural places, all over the world, and detest that their environment is constantly being taken over by civilization and mechanization. I believe that this is the main reason why faeries are so vulnerable to iron and metals, and why anything to do with the fey should never, ever include such things!

If you want to make a faerie garden it should be in a peaceful place with sun and shade and where there is water, even if it's just a bird bath. It should have pretty shiny rocks and, perhaps, ferns and moss. Include some garden sculptures of gnomes, winged faeries and animals.

Happy gardening!...