Faerie Magick Podcasts

In this 14-minute podcast, Fiona Broome discusses three main topics: The words we use to describe faeries. Poltergeists - faeries or ghosts? Who has faerie ancestry. Terminology Faeries, pixies, goblins, elementals... what are they?  Are they connected? Fiona describes the problems in using labels and categories to describe faeries.  She traces the history of the term "elementals" to describe nature spirits -- sometimes faeries -- and how extreme the connections have become over many centuries. For example: Elementals of the ground are usually called gnomes, related to the element of Earth, the direction of North, the Moon, and the season of autumn. Sylphs are the elementals of the air, related to the east, the sun, and spring. Salamanders are elementals of fire, the south, Mars, and summer. Undines are elementals of water, the west, Jupiter, and winter. However, that's just one way to categorize faeries.  We can also categorize them by size, by whether or not they seem to remain in groups (or t