The Cauldron of the Allta Cailleach

•August 25, 2008 • Leave a Comment

We are of the Old Craft and have been declared to be a Coven of the Hunting Path. There to protect all those of the Old Ways and to reach beyond the mundane boundaries to search out the adversaries that seek to use magick or physical means to cause harm to our kin, the wild creatures of this land and indeed, this Sacred Land itself, and to offer practical support and protection to all those that seek us out in the hidden ways of our creed. We remain in the shadows and the dark pathways are our hunting grounds. We do not limit ourselves to internal coven and individual spirituality, we are akin to a Hunting Coven in many respects. We use the Coven Powers to give ‘aid’ both practical, physical and magickal to all who have need of us. We also use those same powers in the protection of both the environment and all animal life. Coven members are activists in the fullest sense of that word and our ethos is simple……

To protect all from attack, both physical and magickal, and to fight for the preservation of the Old Ways and our Sacred Land.

Fruits of the Earth, our NEW sister website

•December 12, 2009 • Leave a Comment

The Allta Cailleach has today opened a new website that is solely to allow fellow Witches and Pagans to buy Magical Herbs that they know to be pure.  

Check it out and let us know what you think…       http://friutsoftheearth.wordpress.com/

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YULE BLESSINGS

•December 9, 2009 • Leave a Comment

The A.C. have a busy time at Yule…. our Rituals and celebrations start early…. The Friday before Yule this year.

WE WISH ALL WHO KNOW US A WONDERFUL YULE TIDE WITH MUCH CELEBRATION AND EVEN MORE FEASTING

WAES HAEL      !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Coven members meet Wolves, or did the wolves actually meet them.

•December 8, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Some lucky Coven Members…. had a very special encounter yesterday, they spent the day with wolves…..

The A.C. try to have these wonderful events as often as possible……      A trip to see Blue Whales is next on the agenda…

But this Wolf encounter was simply the experience of a lifetime…………Words are nowhere near expressive enough…

New Anti Hunt Monitoring Group

•December 5, 2009 • Leave a Comment

The Allta Cailleach is setting up a new Hunt Monitoring group in the new year, to ensure we are ready for the expected repeal of the Hunting Act by the Conservatives when, as seems likely, they win the next election….

Please see our recent posts below…… the Anti Hunting page and the NEW Hunt monitoring page……..

A CALL TO ARMS (Anti hunt)

•November 2, 2009 • Leave a Comment

The News and the broadsheets are this week full of the Tory promises to overturn the Hunting Ban. The Hunting act was always a very poor Bill,  in reality it has saved very few foxes, but it was better than nothing. Within six months we are very likely to see a Conservative government and I foresee the hunting fraternity not bothering to wait for the abolition of the Bill before going back to the viciously cruel and barbaric customs they enjoy partaking in. We at the Allta Cailleach spent twenty years campaigning to see a ban enacted and we will be back in the countryside once more to save the hunted animals from pointless and horrific suffering. No one has ever called the A.C fluffy, in fact we couldn’t be more opposite to that and we know life and death to be our future, but we abhor the wanton cruelty inflicted on our Foxes, Deer and Hares for nothing more than the pleasure killing gives to those sick bastards. Every wild creature is deserving of respect, both in life and death, and an honourable death is their right. Mass killing for pleasure is simply immoral…. Come a Tory government, next August will see a return to cub hunting…(the massacre of 4 / 5 month old cubs, that are still totally dependant on their mothers) and a return to the A.C. out in the field ready to fight for our wild creatures right to life…… The Hunt Sabs and others will need your support so please join us in offering them your practical help.

If you truly understand the Spirit of the Stag …watch this and think… PLEASE.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty8LFUP857U&feature=related

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Mandrake Protection

•November 1, 2009 • Leave a Comment

On the Eve of Samhain, the Coven harvested this years Mandrake crop and each home is now under the fully charged protection of the Mandrake. There is no greater protection possible than the energised root to repel all attacks and render the harm back to the attacker. The Coven ritual that brings forth the magical powers of the Mandrake is kept hidden, but its force is open for all to see. Samhain is a time for the Ancestors, a time to Walk with the Dead and a time to celebrate lives past. The Mandrake keeps those of the Old Craft attuned to the true aspects of the Old Ways and brooks no retreat into the ways of the ‘New Age’.

Old Bones, Old Spirits, New Lives , New Hearts all under the protection of the Man Tree………….

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Fruits of the Earth (Herb Magic)

•October 25, 2009 • Leave a Comment

The Covens herbalists have now added a page where you can buy selected herbs…. This list is in no way complete, but it contains the herbs the Coven use most often and so may be of interest to other witches who don’t have secure sources of reputable herbs, grown and gathered in compliance with the Herbalists’s Art. PLANT LABEL   ttttttttttttt

Successful Mandrake Crop

•September 29, 2009 • Leave a Comment

The Coven are chuffed to bits that this season has been wonderfully successful for all our magical herb growing, but each member has been espeacially  proud to see their mandrake’s  flourish….

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Some argue that Mandrake’s are easy to grow, but we have never found that to be the whole truth. Mandrake prefer a more mediterranean climate……….Full Sun, months of warmth and very little rain… not exactly the average British summer.. But the Gods smiled upon us this year.

All our herbs grew well, Monkshood, Henbane etc etc all blossomed and we were so thrilled that it looks as though our crop of woodruff will be terrifically abundant next spring which means that at Beltaine, the Coven will be freely imbibing the infamous German May Bowle.  Beltaine is probably the most … erm !!! does the word energetic cover it for you… well with the May Bowle Punch in abundance we may need till the Summer Solsitce to recover….

The Coven owes thanks to the wonderful Tash from Avebury for the sharing of her superb Monkshood…..Thanks girl, this is it as of today…doing great… Having been previously grown in the centre of the Avebury Stone Circle means our cuttings have an energy not found in any other plant…

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Of the forty or so Magical herbs that the Coven grows, we are missing just one….    Calamus, if anyone out there knows of any growing in Dorset or the West Country, we’d be mighty grateful to hear from you….. and the A.C can be very mightily grateful indeed…

SCHELMISH CONCERT

•September 2, 2009 • Leave a Comment

I know it seems a long way off ….. BUT it isn’t

The MAGNIFICENT SCHELMISH have been booked for July 3rd 2010 in Dorchester , so put it in your diary now.. Tickets sold out for this years concert in aid of Dorset Wildlife Rescue and so the venue will be bigger, better and Schelmish will be just as SPECTACULAR as they always are….

We can hold tickets for you so let us know, it will be a sell out as always and tickets will be hard to find so reserve yours…

Check em out on this YouTube link   .. Miss this concert and you’ll be beating yourself up for missing the event of 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIQiSZdX8vA&feature=related

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The Fight for the Hill of Tara goes on !!!!!

•August 17, 2009 • Leave a Comment

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The fight to save the Hill of Tara along with the Lismullen Henge has raged on for years now, and despite the Irish governments determination to totally destroy thousands of years of heritage… all is still not lost. The activists fight on and even now at the eleven hour the Irish Government is being taken to the EU Courts of Justice to answer for their illegal destruction of Lismullen… There is also a new petition calling on the UN to act before it is all too late…….

Check out this video from Tara Pixie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z60QB3S0V_k

Then please sign the UN petition, you’ll find it here …     http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/UN-Must-Save-Tara