Category: prose
Posted on December 9, 2025
by Mabh Savage
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If you pre-ordered The Magic of Birds, it should be winging its way to you right now. Yes, I realise that’s a terrible pun and I’m not sorry. For everyone else, the book is officially available at all good UK bookshops and retail outlets,… Continue Reading “A Bird a Day: Magpie. And My Book is Out!”
Category: education, environment, Nature, pagan, prose, Uncategorized, Witchcraft, writingTags: bird advent, bird books, bird folklore, bird magic, bird mythology, bird spirituality, bird superstition, bird symbolism, pagan, pagan books, the magic of birds
Posted on December 8, 2025
by Mabh Savage
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Image shows a pigeon with an orange breast, pink neck, and green wings, with the caption, “When you feed the pigeons skittles instead of bread.” Funny meme about this colourful bird, which is actually a pink-necked green pigeon, Treron vernans, a male, and they’re… Continue Reading “A Bird a Day: Pink-Necked Green Pigeon”
Category: education, Nature, pagan, prose, Uncategorized, Witchcraft, writingTags: a bird a day, bird advent, bird books, bird facts, bird feeder, bird feeding, pagan, the magic of birds, writing
Posted on December 6, 2025
by Mabh Savage
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Short snippet of my book, pre-editing, about jackdaws. They’re one of my favourite corvids, and we have so many around our homes they’ve even nested in our roof before! Jackdaws are relatively small; one of the smallest UK corvids, similar in size to the… Continue Reading “A Bird a Day: Jackdaw”
Category: education, environment, Nature, pagan, prose, Uncategorized, Witchcraft, writingTags: a bird a day, bird advent, bird books, bird facts, bird folklore, bird magic, bird mythology, bird spirituality, bird symbolism, birds, corvids, jackdaw, magic, nature, pagan, paganism, spirituality, Witchcraft, writing
Posted on December 4, 2025
by Mabh Savage
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What’s the scariest bird? The mystical raven? A great, ravenous eagle? The prey-impaling shrike? Wrong! The most terrifying bird is, objectively, the shoebill stork. Just… Just look at it. Add the fact that they can appear absolutely statue like until disturbed and that’s a… Continue Reading “A Bird a Day: Terrifying Birds”
Category: education, Nature, prose, writingTags: a bird a day, advent, bird advent, bird books, bird facts, birds, magical books, pagan, pagan books, Pagan Writers, shoebill stork, spiritual books, the magic of birds, witchcraft books, writing
Posted on December 4, 2025
by Mabh Savage
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Belatedly for the 2nd December and second day of my Bird Advent: A sneak peek at a bird folklore article I’ve written for the upcoming edition of Moonscape magazine… Text in the image reads: The tale of the Seven Whistlers tells of seven birds… Continue Reading “A Bird a Day: Curlew”
Category: mythology, Nature, pagan, prose, seasons, Uncategorized, Witchcraft, writingTags: a bird a day, bird advent, bird folklore, bird magic, bird mythology, bird spirituality, bird superstition, bird symbolism, birds, curlew, curlew action, curlews, folklore, folklore thursday, pagan, pagan books, paganism, the magic of birds
Posted on July 3, 2020
by Mabh Savage
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It’s a Friday evening. I’m cuddled up next to my toddler who is drinking milk and getting ready to sleep. I feel something, a sense of nostalgia for something I’m that isn’t happened yet; a familiar yet inexplicable feeling. Then the clouds start to… Continue Reading “Navigating the Bumps”
Category: Nature, pagan, proseTags: faith, full moon, happiness, hope, July, lockdown, moon, moonlight, pagan, parenting, quarantine, rain, rainy summer, spirituality, wind
Posted on September 28, 2018
by Mabh Savage
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I am absolutely delighted to have contributed towards this anthology of goddess wisdom, alongside some of my favourite authors, no less. Ebook only, but less than £2 which is a real bargain for the content. Click image to purchase.
Category: mythology, pagan, prose, Uncategorized, writingTags: badb, books, Celtic, Celtic Goddess, Elen Sentier, goddess, Morgan Daimler, pagan authors, pagan books, rachel patterson
Posted on July 6, 2017
by Mabh Savage
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This beauty was in my garden first thing, calmly surveying her surroundings and ignoring my cat who was clumsily stalking her. I’m fairly sure this is a female; the males usually have a much bushier tail. In Norse mythology the squirrel Ratatoskr is actually… Continue Reading “A Visit from Ratatoskr”
Category: history, mythology, Nature, observation, pagan, prose, Uncategorized, writingTags: animals, folklore, folklore thursday, garden, magic, myth, mythology, nature, norse, norse mythology, outdoors, pagan, Poetic Edda, prose, prose Edda, Ratatoskr, squirrel, squirrels, thursday, writing, Yggdrasil
Posted on January 13, 2017
by Mabh Savage
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Here is my ‘To Read’ or ‘To Read Again’ list for 2017. A Mystic Guide to Cleansing and Clearing by David Salisbury. I’ve read this already but am looking forward to revisiting some of the chapters when I have a bit of a clear out… Continue Reading “Friday Reads”
Category: childhood, education, gardening, history, mythology, Nature, pagan, prose, seasons, Uncategorized, Witchcraft, writingTags: birds, books, Celtic, David Salisbury, Elen Sentier, folklore, Friday, friday reads, fridayreads, herbalism, herbs, Irish, Legend, magic, magick, Mandrake, merlin, Morgan Daimler, mythology, Neil gaiman, Niall mac Coitir, norse, norse mythology, occult, pagan, paganism, parenting, plants, Reads, roald dahl, terry pratchett, Wolfsbane
Posted on January 9, 2017
by Mabh Savage
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Currently I’m researching bird related myths and legends, in an attempt to create a volume all about birds and their magical correspondences. This weekend, I had the strangest dream, undoubtedly inspired by my forays into feathered folklore. I had been rooting in bins for… Continue Reading “Bacon in the Desert”
Category: mythology, pagan, prose, seasons, Uncategorized, writingTags: bacon, birds, books, crows, desert, dreams, jackdaws, monday, monday blogs, mondayblogs, mondays, nature, outdoors, pagan
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