Fire in the Head: Shamanism and the Celtic SpiritIn 'The Song of Wandering Aengus' William Butler Yeats refers to the ‘fire in the head’ that characterises the visionary experience. Tom Cowan has pursued this theme in a lyrical cross-cultural exploration of shamanism and the Celtic imagin |
Contents
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SHAPESHIFTING SEVERED HEADS AND THE WEB OF LIFE | 28 |
THE EDGES OF TWILIGHT | 49 |
THE MUSIC OF ENCHANTMENT | 70 |
FIVE | 104 |
FOREST FOLK | 134 |
SEVEN | 152 |
PERILOUS JOURNEYS | 161 |
EIGHT | 174 |
THE CENTER OF A LONG LIFE | 181 |
EPILOGUE | 206 |
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ability Amirani ancient apple archetype Arthur beauty become belief benandanti birds body called Carlo Ginzburg cauldron Celtic Christianity Celtic shaman Celtic spirit Celts century Cernunnos Christian common consciousness core shamanism Cuchulain cultures Dananns dance death deities divine druids earth ecstatic enchanted Evans-Wentz evil faery Fenians Finn fire Fisher King Fomorians Fool forest Ginzburg Grail healing helping spirits hero hood Horned human initiation Ireland Irish island journey into nonordinary Kalweit land legends living magical Merlin Mircea Eliade modern mysteries mystical mythology Native American nature night nonordinary reality older ordinary reality Otherworld pagan physical planxty poet power animal quest realm rituals sacred Samhain shamanic experience shamanic journey shamanic practices shamanic practitioners Shamanic Voices shapeshifting Siberia similar skull societies song soul spirit world stories storyteller Taliesin tion tradition trance transformed tree tribal tribes twilight vision visionary experiences W. B. Yeats warriors Western witches woman women wound