Doreen Valiente

13/09/2021

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17/08/2016

Doreen's poetry is some of the best that the Craft has ever produced. Here's one of my favourites:

The Witch's Ballad

Oh, I have been beyond the town,
Where nightshade black and mandrake grow,
And I have heard and I have seen
What righteous folk would fear to know!

For I have heard, at still midnight,
Upon the hilltop far, forlorn,
With note that echoed through the dark,
The winding of the heathen horn.

And I have seen the fire aglow,
And glinting from the magic sword,
And with the inner eye beheld,
The HornÈd One, the Sabbat's lord.

We drank the wine, and broke the bread,
And ate it in the Old One's name.
We linked our hands to make the ring,
And laughed and leaped the Sabbat game.

Oh, little do the townsfolk reck,
When dull they lie within their bed!
Beyond the streets, beneath the stars,
A merry round the witches tread!

And round and round the circle spun,
Until the gates swung wide ajar,
That bar the boundaries of the earth
From faery realms that shine afar.

Oh, I have been and I have seen
In magic worlds of Otherwhere.
For all this world may praise or blame,
For ban or blessing nought I care.

For I have been beyond the town,
Where meadowsweet and roses grow,
And there such music did I hear
As worldly-righteous never know.

Read more here:
http://www.doreenvaliente.com/Doreen-Valiente-Doreen_Valiente_Poetry-11.php

The Official Doreen Valiente Website Doreen Valiente

17/08/2016

Hello all! I'm afraid I've left this page a bit neglected over the past few years. Well, that changes now!

- Taliesin Govannon, admin

17/07/2013

A rare video interview with Doreen...

Magical clips from the 1989 video 'Earth Magic'. Apologies for the quality but I think this is important to show. It includes footage of Alex Sanders and an ...

17/07/2013

Check this page out... it's the people entrusted with Doreen's legacy....

The Official Doreen Valiente Website Doreen Valiente

13/06/2013

Doreen's Wikipedia page....

Doreen Edith Dominy Valiente (4 January 1922 – 1 September 1999), who also went under the craft nameAmeth,[1] was an influential EnglishWiccan who was involved in a number of different early traditions, including Gardnerianism, Cochrane's Craft and the Coven of Atho. Responsible for writing much of…

05/07/2010

Interview with Doreen Valiente:

A 1991 in depth interview with Doreen Valiente.

25/08/2009

The Wikipedia page for Doreen's seminal work:

The Charge of the Goddess is a traditional inspirational text sometimes used in the neopagan religion of Wicca. Several versions exist, though they all have the same basic premise, that of a set of instructions given by a Great Goddess to her worshippers. ...

25/08/2009

Here's the page started by Doreen's literary executors:

Site Dedicated to the memory of Doreen Valiente Witch and Author - the Mother of Modern Witchcraft and Wicca.

25/08/2009