The Fire Cache - Pagan Cache Series Letterbox Hybrid
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The Fire Cache - Pagan Cache Series
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This is one of a set of caches devised and hidden to
complement the
“Celebrate the Summer Solstice with the Laird” event.
They all have themes associated with various pagan rituals and
beliefs that we have researched.
We are not pagans so reality and fiction may have become blended
and all themes & their complementary locations are subject to
“cachers licence”
When midsomer comes, with havens and
bromes they do bonefires make,
And swiftly, then, the nimble young men runne leaping over the
same.
The women and maydens together do couple their handes.
With bagpipes sounde, they dance arounde; no malice among them
stands.
[A. Clark, ed., The Shires Ballads, "The
Mery Life of the Countriman" (Oxford, 1907)]
Most of the customs associated with the Midsummer celebrate the
light, are to drive away negative forces, and encourage the power
of the Sun. This is achieved with sympathetic magic in the form of
bonfires, rolling wheels, circle dances, and torchlight
processions. Because the energy of the sun infuses the whole of
nature, it is a potent time for gathering plants, seeking healing,
or practicing divination.
Midsummer fires once blazed all across Europe and North Africa.
Such ritual fires had the power to protect the revelers from evil
spirits, bad fairies, and wicked witches. They also warded off the
powers of bane, blight, dark, death, and winter. There were various
other customs associated with the event. Men and women danced
around the fires and often jumped through them for good luck; to be
blackened by the fire was considered very fortuitous indeed. A
branch lit at the fire was passed over the backs of animals to
preserve them from disease, the Cornish even passed children over
the flames to protect them from disease in the coming year.
This cache pays homage to these ancient traditions which
formed our culture and heritage prior to the arrival of the modern
religions.
The cache is a multicache letterbox hybrid containing a stamp and
ink pad for those of you with letterboxing log books plus a
standard cache logbook and the usual goodies.
Do not attempt to remove the details from the first stage, you
can read the details through the container. Near the final loaction
you do not need to cross barbed wire.
Please do not take the stamp or ink pad these are not
swaps!
I can highly recomend you wear wellies for this cache. Please
replace stage 1 with care exactly as you found it.
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Fgntr bar - va gehax bs n urqtr
Svany - vafvqr gur abooyl bnx gerr.