I feel it is incorrect to compare modern-day inauthentic collectives/cults to the original authentic collective of the indigenous ethnic tribe

Re-sharing this old post.

It’s an old story about midwife, and her servant girl who fell in love with an elf/fairy, and had his baby.

The story involves a midwife and her servant girl who stayed out all night each time she had a day off. One day servant girl never returned back to midwife’s service. The midwife eventually forgot all about it, until one night she had a knock on her door. A strange young man invited her to assist with the birth of his child.

The young man took the midwife to a far away place where a cave was located. As they stood in front of the cave, the man put one of his hands on wall of cave, and a hidden door appeared. As they walk in, the midwife sees a rustic, primitive looking dwelling.

A young woman was laying on a makeshift bed made of straw and grass. She was in the pains of labor. Midwife helped her deliver her child. Midwife then realized that the girl giving birth was that same servant girl. She understood that this mysterious young man was who the servant girl was visiting each time she stayed out all night.

The father of baby asks midwife to put a special ointment on baby’s eyes. He tells the midwife that the baby needs this ointment so that he could see the world as it really is. The man told midwife that it was very important that she does not get any of the ointment on her own skin.

Midwife did put ointment in baby’s eyes, but she still had a trace of ointment upon her right hand, and by brushing away the hair from her face, she accidentally got some of the ointment on her right eye. As she did so, she could still see the same as before through her left eye, but with her right eye she saw the cave transform. Now as she looked with her right eye, she did not see a dirty primitive rustic-looking cave dwelling. The bare black cave walls were now covered with beautiful silks and satins.The makeshift bed made from straw and grass was a beautiful velvet couch. The girl was no longer dressed in rags, but in a beautiful, elegant dress. Both the girl and the man looked beautiful and wealthy. The midwife then realized that the servant girl became part of the faerie realm.

The man told the midwife it was time for her to go. Midwife thought she was only gone few hours, but when she got home, her husband was angry with her because she was gone an entire week.

One month later midwife and her husband were at a market looking for a new servant. Midwife happened to see that same faerie man from the cave. She looked up at him to ask him how his wife and baby were, but the faerie man made sure to keep himself invisible that day. The man smiled, and blew into her right eye, and suddenly he disappeared from sight.

Re-sharing old post from long ago.


Here they are saying the same thing I said years ago. They compare Tolkien’s Elves to Irish mythological god-like race Tuatha De Danann. I’ve pointed out the parallels between the two. Both were said to be tall, graceful, fair-skinned, with ethnic European appearance. Both are said to either be immortal, or live extremely long lives. Both had supernatural powers, and were very spiritually endowed. Both had a deep connection with nature. In Celtic mythology, the Tuatha De Danann leave towards the end to Tír na nÓg (Land of Youth). In Tolkien’s books the Elves leave towards the end to Valinor (Land of Undying)

Beautiful song and art
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7rWcBwqbH8&feature=share

Gorgeous art Russian/Slavic mythology & folklore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZszx4yWVdk&feature=share

ANOTHER ONE!!

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/man-who-lectured-pupils-about-auschwitz-admits-he-was-never-prisoner-there-a7101746.html

Beekeepers kept the custom of Telling the Bees any events in the family, especially of any deaths.

If the beekeeper died the surviving spouse or oldest son would knock on the hive 3 times & say “Little bees, our lord is dead, leave not while we are in distress."

Painting (1897) by Charles Napier Hemy of a widow and her son telling the bees about the death of their master. #folklorethursday

Gaelic singer Gillebride MacMillan played a bard that performed his songs in castle Leoch in TV series “Outlander”