AFANC MAGICK CREATURE

Afanc Magick Creature of Wales-

Afance Creature of Wales

Good afternoon my dearest friends & followers. For today post I am going to bring you to the world of Welsh folklore. This creature lives in the lakes of wales & is descripted many different ways in the Welsh folklore they say...
Some say the creature could be a dwarf, beaver, crocodile and even sometimes said to be
a demon. However, the favorite of the Welsh is depicted as a large frog with claws on all limbs. The Afanc will sometimes have magick powers and have been known to be able to speak Welsh too. It is said the afanc was a monstrous creature that would prey upon anyone that was foolish enough to fall or to swim in the lakes which are warned not to swim in. The most common tale that surrounds the Afanc creature, is a town that was plagued with these carnivourous creatures at a enormous scale. So much so that the people of wales had to resolve it only if they couldn't kill the Afanc's creatures but that to was impossible. So they came up with one solution if they can't kill these carnivourous creatures, they shall take them to another lake away form them. Sounds impossible Eh! well, what they did was is employ the Afanc's one and only weakness. This happens to be a beautiful woman who can lure the Afanc to sleep upon her lap. After she has done this, the villagers then bind the Afanc with magical chains & use two oxen to drag the creature across to the next lake that they found where no-one will be harmed.

The brave woman, has many tales on of these relates after the creature was bound in chains & awakened it was furious. It was enraged and was thrashing  & crushed the maiden in whose lap it still lay. Another version was that the poor maiden breasts were bitten off. Still after much effort the beast was finally dragged off the poor maiden to the lake Cwm Ffynnon. As for the names or who these young maidens were that gave their lives for this task, it was never reviled. I could only guess that they might be maidens of poor villages that would say it would be a honor for their daughter to save the town or entire villages for their daughter sacrifice . I think a lot of that kinda thing happened in those ancient times of wales, Scotland and England too.

Besides the Lake Cwm Ffynno the Afanc is said to live in a number of different lakes in Wales such as Lake llyn, Lake Llion, Lake Llyn Barfog, & Lake Llyn-y-Afanc which bares its name. As I have said above too there are many tales that involving the creature Afanc. It is described as a fearsome beast, which kills and eats its victims who enters or falls near its watery domain. The Afanc can also cause flooding and mass drowning in the areas they live too. I hope you found the creature of Wales, the Afanc interesting .. I hope you all have a wonderful day

Much love and kindness to you all

Your friend always ....Wendy

Polar Vortex

Polar Vortex-

Good Afternoon my dearest friends & followers, welcome to my humble blog. I hope that you all are having a lovely afternoon. Today I am going to talk about are major problems in the climate change all around the world. First post was about Florida and the problems they will face with the rising seas.
Today 'the Polar Vortex'. It all seem to start in the first month of January of 2014 when our nation was divided by either hot verses very cold weather, 'The Polar Vortex' as they call it. This has been the big story for the last 2years and it doesn't seem like its slowing down to the year of January 2016. The polar vortex for the eastern half of the country has made record lows between 5-11 below 0 degrees and that doesn't even count Canada eastern area. [ you can check it out on the gift that I found] While, the ridiculously resilient ridge has brought warm, dry weather to most of the other states west of the Rockies. It seems like these record temperatures have been set off by both ends of the spectrum in January across the US. Its preliminary numbers indicate that 2,387 daily records were set for the lowest daytime highs while 793 days were set during the highest daytime highs through January 30, of 2014 for a start. Notable record lows from the first Arctic blast including mobile, AL which topped out at 35F on January 7, 2014. Also in Orlando, FL which saw a high of 48F that same day!
There were monthly record lows too! that set records on that same day a number of locations - From Arkansas to Wisconsin. However, the coldest record set was a bone chilling record was -18F in Laona WI. As the Polar Vortex continued its Frezze, there was teeth chattering east of Mississippi - However, the Sunglasses, t-shirts were out in numbers in the West, especially in California, Oregon and Nevada. At the San Francisco International Airport on the 15th hit a all-time high for the month of January at the station when the mercury hit 73F and went on to tie the newly set record the very next day. The Polar Vortex continue to attack- in the Farther inlands of Sacramento it hit a high of 79F on January 24, 2014. That's was 2F shy of the all-time January record high in Sacramento CA. There were other area's that were effected by the Polar Vortex-the monster west ridge and this was Alaska. There were record high temperatures being set there.
In Port Alsworth, AK, the temperature reached 62F on January 27,2014. This ties the official January Alaska record. Overall, the monthly records echo what could be in our future. There have been 44 monthly record highs and 16 monthly high minimum temperatures to date in January of 2014.

During the course of the last 60 monthly report the low maximum temperatures has marked the US with six monthly records lows.

This is only the beginning of the polar vortex'. Sadly we are probably going to see more of his same kinda strange climate change in the next couple of years along with more rising seas and more sever weather too. The only thing that we can do is be really a possible.

JapaneseTsukumogami-Spirit

JapaneseTsukumogami-Spirit

A Tsukumogami friend spirit

Good evening my dears & welcome to my humble blog...Tonight I'm going to bring you all back to the ancient world of Japan. I found a new magick creature of Japan. This is the Tsukumogami- 付喪神-'The Artifact spirit, which is a type of Japanese spirit. According to this Japanese Spirit, the Tsukumogami-emaki which is another name for the Japanese spirit. Its origin is from items or artifacts that have reached their 100th birthday. When this happens, the object become alive & is aware that its a live ghost-spirit, hence they become a live spirit 'a Tsukumogami-emaki. So any objects of this age, like the Japanese swords, old fans etc. become a Tsukumogami Spirit. These Tsukumogami are considered spirits & supernatural beings as opposed to enchanted items. It is said that modern items cannot become a Tsukumogami-emaki; the reason for this is that the tsukumogami are said to be repelled by electricity. Also, there are only a few modern items that are used for the 100year-span that it takes for an artifact to gain a soul.  

As for the appearance of these spirits they can vary. It really depends on the type of item they originated from as well as the condition that the item was in. Some, such tsukumogami originate from paper lanterns, broken sandals which have tears & become eyes and have sharp teeth, thus giving a horrifying visage. Other, such as worn as prayer beads or teacups may merely manifest faces & appendages, giving a warm friendly appearance. Though by and large the spirit Tsukumogami are usually harmless and at most tend to play occasional pranks on unsuspecting victims,

They do however, have the capacity for anger and will band together to take revenge on those who are wasteful or those who throw them away thoughtlessly. Being the fact that these spirits are over a hundred years old one could see why. To prevent his from happening, to this day some jinja ceremonies, such as the Hari Kuyo are performed to console broken and unusable items that may have turned into a tsukumogami spirit. As I research the Japanese tsukumogami-spirit there seemed to be several layers to the tsukumogami-spirit. For one, in the tenth century, the tsukumogami spirit were used in helping spreading the 'doctrines of the Shingon Esoteric of Buddhism to a variety of Audiences-ranging from the educated to the relatively unsophisticated by capitalizing upon pre-existing spiritual beliefs in the Tsukumogami-Spirit.

The tsukumogami are animate household objects that after a service of nearly one hundred years-tsukumogami receives souls. These objects can be anything from containers, tools and instruments of the time of 100years ago. So by the 12th century the tsukumogami had entered into the Japanese popular culture to such an extent that the Buddhist teaching had been 'completely lost to most outsiders'. As for the tsukumogami-spirit it was only the people of japan the believe in the tradtions of these types of spirits. Even today there are many different kinds of folklore, myths and legend but the people of japan still believe in many of their spirits or ghost traditions of long ago into modern day. I hope that you found this tradition of the

Japanese tsukumogami-spirit interesting, I sure did.

I love you all my dearest friends and followers

your friend always

WENDY