“Archetypally, the witch has been and remains on the fringe of the fringe, outside even the outsiders. Our affinities are with, for example, the pre-Celtic inhabitants of the British Isles. These mound-dwelling, matriarchally based, Goddess-worshipping people, to whom magic was life, were long ago pushed out of the mainstream of civilization, geographically and culturally. Nowadays, they have no physical domain at all. But their blood (the so-called fairy blood) runs in the veins of some.”

“Throughout history, witches have pitched their camp in any and every culture. Within, but never quite of that culture (or not since neolithic times), they have played a strange role, being sometimes scapegoated, sometimes persecuted, and often sought after as helper, healer or comforter. Through the witch, a person finds a link with an elven world; that is, with a magical reality both feared and desired. We have often had to carry the projection of other people’s violent urges, sexually or psychically – and some ‘witches’ have indeed been suitable candidates for this role, for nature magic can be misused, like any other power.”

"Today, people are dying body and soul for want of the poetry of the Fey Folk. Faerie magic is not a poetry on the page but a living, breathing poetry, the poetry of ritual, the poetry of waking each morning to the Mother's embrace, the art of walking with Her on the way to work. I try to offer my students a Faerie glimmer, to touch their DNA with my Faerie breath so their blood will remember just a little bit how it flowed when humans were first touched by the Fey."