We might perceive the world’s beauty

Opening up the pores of sensation – or the doors of perception, as Blake called them – we might sense more in the world than can be seen with the literal eye. We might perceive the world’s beauty, its presence as a whole and in parts in relation to us, and our family relationship to it. We might sense a stirring there, a spark – a scintilla, the ancients called it. We might sense, as Meister Eckhart said, an eye looking back at us as we look into the world. 

Thomas Moore, The Soul’s Religion: Cultivating a Profoundly Spiritual Way of Life  

Lie on your stomach

“Lie on your stomach,” I ordered between kisses. 

 
He pulled away. “Why?” 

 
“Just do it.” 

 
Shaye Evans – Seduction Squad 

Souls

In fact, my soul and yours are the same. You appear in me, I in you.  -  Rumi 

wild and sometimes terrifying women

Fairy tales are the domain of women. In past centuries, the traditional European storytellers were women sitting at their hearths and spinning at their spinning wheels – spinning a yarn, if you will. Telling old wives’ tales. 

The original fairy tales were not romantic children’s stories. Only very recently with Walt Disney have these raw and very ominous stories been reduced to little more than cute cartoons. Until the 17th century, fairy tales were adult entertainment, the way of passing a dark winter’s evening. Many older fairy tales are quite bawdy. Allocation of fairy tales to the nursery took place in the 18th century when the educated upper classes rejected the irrational and supernatural aspects of the tales in favor of a more rational and scientific world view, thus dismissing these tales as nonsense and only good for amusing young children. 

Yet, as the enduring popularity of Clarissa Pinkola Estes’ Women Who Run with the Wolves attests, fairy tales are meaningful and relevant for contemporary women seeking deep guiding archetypes and images of female strength. 

These centuries-old stories bristle with wild and sometimes terrifying women who possess amazing powers. The witches and sorceresses who inhabit the dark forests of fairy tales offer a stark and startling contrast to the innocent maiden protagonists…. 

Mary Sharratt – Through a Dark Forest: Fairy Tales as Women’s Stories 

Baobhan Sith

A baobhan sith (pronounced baa’-van shee) is a type of blood-sucking female fairy in Scottish mythology, similar to the banshee or leanan sídhe. Also known as “the White Women of the Scottish Highlands,” they are beautiful seductresses who prey on young travellers by night. 

Often depicted wearing a long white dress, the fairies approach their victims by inviting them to dance, leading them away to a secluded place. With the victims guard down, she uses her long sharp talons to puncture his throat and feed from him, sucking his blood until death. 

The baobhan sith usually settles in forests or mountains, always in a natural environment. She will have a secured coffin somewhere underground so she can return to rest there during the day, being unable to tolerate sunlight. 

Some tales hold that the faerie can shape shift into a wolf. Medieval versions of the tale claim that she has cloven hooves instead of feet that she hides under her dress. 

modern faerie tales 

Excite and provoke me

It’s three in the afternoon when I arrive. You welcome me in to the lounge and I see the blinds are closed. We are to be invisible to outsiders. Which means you’re going to put on a show for me. Here in the lounge you’re going to tease and tempt me. Excite and provoke me. Make me stiff – oh, so stiff it aches like hell! I’m going to have you, I have to have you, spread wide for me now. In the lounge. In your lioness den. With the blinds closed on the nosey neighbours. And I’ll pump us both to the edge of infinity and beyond –