As usual, Eboard Members are identified by first name, and others are identified by preferred initial! Attendees at this meeting 1/11/20 were Cat, Kate, Aleja, and SW, referred to below as S (not the same S as previous posts – that’s SM). INTRO TO PART III Aleja: My first note is “Oh look a thesis …
[The notes that follow are much more rough than usual, as we were a bit meandering] Attendees: Aleja, Cat, Kate, R, SO, SM, K K, Aleja, Kate, Cat all finished part II. SM still in Part I. [Aleja’s rant about irish color word glas and journey myth types imramma and echrtrai, and mytho-real islands. “Sea” …
Part II Intro and Overall: Aleja: Thoughts overall? Cat: over a month since I’ve read intro. Oh, okay, starts saying whole point is to discuss indigenous cultures and shamanic practices and compare to early modern cunning folk and I don’t know how I feel about that. Cultures often have things in common, and in metaphysical …
[Sorry for the late posting! I thought I’d already done this one… Whoops! As usual, people are referred to by first initial unless they’re members of the EBoard.] CHAPTER SIX: RENUNCIATION AND PACT We began by catching K & S up through the first part of chapter 6, to the heading Demand for the Soul. …
Please see below for the updated reading schedule for the Fellowship Book Club! This has been updated in order to better accommodate for our reading/discussion pace as a group. If you have any questions, let us know! If you are interested in the discussions of previous book club meetings, you can check them out here …
We started at: Ch.5, Sabbaths and Elf homes, p.84 Aleja: Endnote 42 & 43 discuss journeys into Fairy. I follow Ginzberg here: folkloric devil is a fairy king. Cat: Did my undergrad thesis on Sir Gallant and the Green Knight. Folklorist Vladimir Propp: reading a tale with folklore and Christian lore, proof that the story …
Kate: General impression? Aleja: don’t have a familiar so this fairylore is a bit out of my wheelhouse. More familiar with chance encounters than working relationships. Kate: Me either, I have an animal familiar which isn’t really like this. Maybe my raccoon spirit, or Raccoon? Small spirit or archetype? Both-and, probably, not just one. Cat: …
As before, all notes here are approximate, EBoard members are referred to by full name, and other attendees are referred to by initial. Kate: As we usually do, do folks have overall impressions of the chapter? Cat: I read it in a fucking whirlwind. This one was different than the other chapters. There are a …
As before, all notes here are approximate, EBoard members are referred to by full name, and other attendees are referred to by initial. Aleja: I am GOING TO REMEMBER TO TAKE NOTES THIS TIME!!! S: Finally have the book, and almost caught up! Aleja: Opening Question: Do you have a familiar or work with spirits …
Once again, this is meant to be a summary of the discussion, not an exact recounting. EBoard Members are referred to by first name, and all other attendees are referred to by first initial. Librarian’s Note: We began with finishing our discussion of Chapter One, as we’d left off on p. 17 during the previous …