Monday, April 30, 2012

The Sidhe ride on May Eve, moving their cattle to high ground for the summer as mortals do.


It is said that at Hallowe'en the spirits come from the other world to visit, but at Beltane we may go to them, and safely return again if sensible precautions are taken. (Eat nothing that they give you, is the most important thing.)





May Eve, the Air Tide Flows

"The wind blows out of the gates of the day,
The wind blows over the lonely of heart,
And the lonely of heart is withered away.
While the faeries dance in a place apart,
Shaking their milk-white feet in a ring,
Tossing their milk-white arms in the air
For they hear the wind laugh and murmur and sing
Of a land where even the old are fair,
And even the wise are merry of tongue
But I heard a reed of Coolaney say,
When the wind has laughed and murmured and sung
The lonely of heart is withered away."
 
W.B. Yeats