Faries and Little people

Since I was a little girl I have always had a strong connection to Faries and other nature spirits.

In mythology, nature spirits  are composed of etheric matter. Their job is to build and maintain the plant kingdom while working in conjunction with the devas and elementals. They are said to have been here since the beginning of time, have created the landscape of reality, which we return to for different reasons as guided.

The fairies are supernatural beings that can be best described by the Greek word – daimon, which means “spirit”. They are not divinity, ie. god or goddess, in the usual sense of the word, and yet they are not mere mortal; often, it is easier to classify them as minor divinity.A fairy is a little magical spirits with insect wings. Usually either grants wishes or wreaks mischief.

Our fairy house, were we leave them offerings, we always ask them to watch out before we do things in the  garden, as we do not want them to get hurt. In front of the house there is lavender, we will also have some butterflies and dragonwings decorations up to.

Little people is a type of nature spirits we have a lot of in the back of the garden. I think it has a lot to do with us having the forest so close to the house, they tend to live under roots in trees and they love to do little jokes on us as moving around on things in Norwegian we called them “små folk”.

Our house for the Små folk, just under a tree, we also bring offerings for them to. I tend to leave small gifts for them as old keys, marples and so on. We also burn candels in front of both of the houses.

There is also a number of other spirits around in nature such as tree spirits, elementary spirits and many more. But I might talk about them another time.

Do you have any contact with nature spirits? Do they have there own special place in the garden?

Blessings

Luna

17 May (Norwegian national Day)

It is not long untill th 17 of May, wich is Norway`s national day. So I wanted to tell about this fantastic day.17 May is Norway’s Constitution Day, and is celebrated with children’s parades, food, drink and festivities.

Every part of the has a child parade, as this day really is a day for the children. Every school, kindergarten and any other kids that wants to join can do so 🙂

During 17 May we do a whole lot of parading . On this day there is three parades everyone can join in on: The morning parade, children parade and Borgatoget (wich is a parade of all the different activies in the city you live in, wich is always fun to watch).

When people graduate after done college they have a celebration called “Russefering” and they have there own parade were they do all aosrts of silly bits 🙂

But there can`t be any big celebrations in my country without food, as food is very important in my Country. It is also that day children can eat as much ice cream, cake, candy and food as the want to.

A small cake table at one of the many places for festivites.

We have good breakfast, lunchm supper and keep eating all day long.

Between parades there is loads of free activites for kids at every school and they all get prices.

We have many beautiful varieties of our national clothing.

A bunad used to show wich part of the country you were from, as there is one bunad for each part, and they are all unique and special. But the last couple of years you can buy any bunad you want.

This is a photo of “Sunnfjordsbunaden” wich is the one I have from my part of the country. It shows the female and male version of the clothing.

So I will finish off this post with our national anthem.