#penrhyn castle

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#Penrhyn Castle #Wales #UK #Europe #Architecture #Travel #Castle

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Took a walk to Penrhyn Castle. The map took us one way, and a man painting a bridge pointed us the correct way.

#penrhyn castle #castle #wales

[dlyarchitecture]

#Penrhyn Castle #North Wales #UK 🇬🇧

[bookloversofbath]

Requisitioned: The British Country House in the Second World War :: John Martin Robinson

Requisitioned: The British Country House in the Second World War :: John Martin Robinson

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Penrhyn Castle & Gardens, Wales, ENGLAND

#penrhyn #castle #castillo #gardens #jardines #wales #england #inglaterra #united kingdom #reino unido #europe #europa

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ab. 1610 Manner of Paul van Somer the Elder - An Unknown Lady and Child

(Penrhyn Castle)

#artist unknown #women #children #1610s #17th century

[tyetknot]

King of the Witches - A Review | Chapter 1 - The Young Initiate

King of the Witches Chapter One – The Young Initiate

Introduction | 1 - The Young Initiate | 2 - A Magic Childhood | 3 - The Haunted Hill | 4 - Call Down The Spirits | 5 - Bewitched

This chapter of the book has Sanders’ story of how he entered the world of witchcraft. As I said in my notes on the Introduction, King of the Witches was published in 1969, which places it well within the time period in which people would routinely make outrageous claims about being members of some secret hereditary tradition of witchcraft which just happened to bear shocking similarities to what Gerald Gardner was doing. So we will have to take an awful lot of what Sanders says here with a grain of salt.

No, bigger than that.

Bigger.

OK, that might be enough.

Alright, so. One major problem with this book is that dates of birth are almost never given and we are rarely told what year events happen in. I will do my best to note this when I feel it’s important but please be aware that errors may have crept in.

We are given a little history of Alex’ family and their circumstances – his father was a musician and an alcoholic who worked as a day labourer and his mother was a cleaner. Research on my part, as these details are not given in the book, tells us that he was born in 1926 under the name Orrell Alexander Carter and was apparently unaware that Carter was his legal name until later in his life (he used the name Alexander O. Sanders for his first marriage at the age of 22). The events in this book apparently happened when Sanders was seven years old, which places it at some time in 1933. From the description given they come across as fairly poor. Not much is told of their family life, although Sanders’ mother

“regaled them with stories of their paternal great-grandfather who had been captain of a tea clipper. (She never mentioned that he had been captured by Chinese pirates and buried alive.)”

This comes across as an example of inventing a colourful past and there will be more of this to come, I assure you. Giving names is the sort of thing that would be helpful here, you know? Ancestry research cited below suggests that this would be John Carter (1839 – 1909) who was listed as a ‘seafaring man’ and died in Liverpool. I suppose someone could have rescued him after the Chinese pirates buried him.

His maternal grandmother was Mary Bibby (nee Roberts) who was, according to the book, 66 when Alex was 7. If this were correct then she would have been born in 1867, and the book implies that she died at the age of 74 in 1941. We are told that she was born in Bethesda, north Wales, but the ancestry report tells us she was born in Bangor which was fairly close by. We are further told that “as a girl she had been in service with Lord Penrhyn”, who based on the dates would have been Edward Gordon Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (held title 1866 – 1886) or his son, George Sholto Gordon Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn (held title 1886 – 1907) – Penrhyn Castle is located in Bangor.

Recent (2018) genealogical research suggests that the dates Sanders gives are spurious, and tells us that Mary Bibby (1875 – 1907) passed away before she could raise her own children (Sanders’ mother Hannah Jane Bibby was born in 1903 and died in 1970), let alone instruct Sanders in witchcraft in 1933. Now, Alex Sanders was not alone in having a conveniently dead grandmother who was secretly a witch, but his story is definitely weirder than most of the others, which we will now proceed to.

Most of you will already know this, but for those of you who don’t: Sanders, at the age of seven, had been sent to his grandmother’s for dinner, as his mother was working. He walked in the back door (without knocking, which is something I had hitherto only found to be acceptable among rural Newfoundlanders) and was greeted by a strange sight:

“The sight that met his eyes in the kitchen dumbfounded him. An old, old woman, with wrinkled belly and match-stick thighs, stood in the centre of the room surrounded by a cloth circle on which curious objects had been placed.”

According to his account, he had interrupted her during a magical ritual of some variety. Sanders claimed that she had forced him to strip his clothes and swore him to secrecy, then nicked him on the scrotum with a sickle-shaped knife (her bolline?), telling him that he was “one of us now”, making him a witch. She tells him that she will teach him magic, and as they dress and put the ritual items away she tells him the history of the cult, which happens to neatly match the spurious history given in the Introduction.

There are two things that stick out to me here: one is the fact that this initiation ritual contains an element that is attested to nowhere else, the drawing of blood from the genitals. Now, this chapter closes with the statement that this ritual was “a pale replica of those once carried out in Sparta when males were emasculated so as to become priests of the Moon Goddess.” This is very clearly a reference to Gardner’s earlier form of the Charge of the Goddess which says that “At mine Altars the youth of Lacedaemon in Sparta made due sacrifice.” Doreen Valiente removed this line from her more well-known re-working of it, because it contradicted the later statement “nor do I demand aught in sacrifice” and because it is actually backwards: Sparta was in Lacedemon. The reference here is presumably to the cult of Cybele whose priesthood would sometimes castrate themselves, although Cybele isn’t really a lunar deity.

The other interesting point is the cloth circle with ritual tools laid upon it. Generally speaking in Wiccan ritual practice the ritual tools are laid upon the altar, be that a raised table or a cleared spot on the ground, but they are not customarily spread about the ritual space. The only time we see this, or the cloth circle, is in publicity photos of Sanders doing rituals with his initiates. The circle in the photos is taken from The Art of Drawing Spirits Into Crystals from Barrett’s The Magus. Jimahl diFiosa writes about this in more detail in A Coin For The Ferryman (pub. 2010, rev 2022). I am pleased to see someone else draw this connection.

His grandmother tells him that she was taught magic by her grandmother. Unfortunately the ancestry report available does not go back far enough to provide her name – we know that Mary Bibby’s mother was Emma Roberts (c.1849 – 1909). Someone may investigate further at some point. He says that her grandfather was a stagecoach driver who left her some furniture, but again, no name is given.

Sanders is told that he will get his own athame when get gets older and expresses an interest in his grandmother’s crystal ball but is told that mishandling it will make it cloudy. The chapter closes with a foreshadowing statement that misuse of witchcraft will backfire and cause harm, a statement that he was the most recent in a line of witches dating to the 1400s, and finally, that he was under the impression that “he and his grandmother were the last two witches left unburnt.”

Would you believe that my initial notes on this chapter took up only one page of a small notebook? There’s a lot to unpack here, and it’s only 1933, with lots of Sanders’ life left to go.

I will say that a genealogy report commissioned by Maya Sanders was invaluable for my analysis of this chapter. A link to it may be found here.

#Wicca #Witchcraft #Pagan #Alexandrian Wicca #Alexandrian Witchcraft #Alex Sanders #King of the Witches #traditional wicca #traditional witchcraft #Alexandrian Tradition #Review

[centuriespast]

Portrait of an Unknown Lady (believed to be a member of the Williams family) Mary Beale (1633–1699) National Trust, Penrhyn Castle

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Garden view at Penrhyn Castle / Wales

#welsh #Tourism #chateau #europe #castles

[emmashouldbewriting]

It would be a shame if Drakeford misses an opportunity to highlight Wales with an investiture. Personally speaking, I was 5 when Charles was invested, but when Diana came on the scene, I read about the Prince of Wales. Years later, my daughter and I made a trip to the UK and Ireland, and spent several days in Wales, making a point to visit Caernarfon Castle specifically because of his investiture. I will admit I liked Beaumaris better - so peaceful.

I just think there will be so much interest in William and Catherine in the next few years, there is a real opportunity to teach people about Wales, increase tourism and get some economic benefits. The Queen’s funeral coverage is going to cause, I think, a huge uptick in tourism for a few years for Scotland and England. We have not seen the beauty of Wales highlighted yet. Wales should get it’s portion of the pot, and an investiture would certainly help.

Indeed - Wales could benefit greatly from it, and I do think an investiture will happen. Unfortunately, the part of the country that needs it really is the Northern half. Not to mention William and Kate have such a connection to NW Wales thanks to Anglesey that it would be a shame not to take advantage of that. Caernarfon has been the site of both investitures so far and the castle's history with the title really does make it the perfect choice.

Sadly Mark Drakeford really doesn't give much of a toss about us up here, so I 100% see it happening in Cardiff. It would be a great shame.

I was happy to see the King speaking Welsh today, although I personally don't speak it, it's an important part of the country's history and identity. I hope William does take time to learn it.

As for castles... I've never actually been to Beaumaris Castle - I have Beaumaris, but I don't live near it so it's always been a bit awkward to get to 😄 personally, Penrhyn Castle in Bangor is a favourite. I love it.

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Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 with images, n2649 ( Feb. 1, 2024)　　　

Plas Penrhyn, that they thought would make a pleasant holiday house for us and the children. It was small and unpretentious, but had a delightful garden and little orchard and a number of fine beech trees. Above all, it had a most lovely view, south to the sea, west to Portmadoc and the Caernarvon hills, and north up the valley of the Glaslyn to Snowdon. Source: Bertrand Russell: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, v.3 chap. 2: At home and abroad, 1969 More info.:https://russell-j.com/beginner/AB32-140.HTM

Original in Japanese, translated with DeepL.com (free version) 　From the time he was a child until he attended Cambridge University, Russell lived in his grandparents' house in the suburbs of London (note: the house is a mansion in Richmond Park, a suburb of London, where Queen Victoria allowed his grandfather, who twice served as Prime Minister of England, to live while he was alive). The house had a large garden with a vast, unobstructed view westward to Windsor Castle. Because of this, Russell preferred to live in the countryside, where he could take in the expansive views, rather than in London or other cities where his work took him. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

#Bertrand Russell

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National Trust - Penrhyn Castle & Garden

This Castle is where they filmed the series yes all three. If you look at the picture of it of the movie empire you can see that it's covered with some sort of Vine and people say that it's feverfew there's some nuclear incidents out there 2018 and subsequently it has been cleared but they got cancer they say from later on their exposure right now and they're not checking and they're playing with each other and they're playing me the weapons and the incident was cleared out and the place decontaminated but Britain is an area that's dominated by morlock almost completely and there are several movies that occur after the freeze out and they're trying to get nukes over here it's actually what's happening the place is a radiated again and they all get cancer including John remillard and it's because of their massive exposure to it I'm sitting here threatening my husband not to it doesn't make a damn difference or overexposed long keep mutating and it's one reason why most of them will probably die from cancer because they're not treating it and they're just looking good and then dying looking good and dying and I'll feel disgusting and they get to newk's over using several different methods and mostly they are trying to force them here and it is an ugly show and they're trying to take their own stuff out.

Hera

We do have an update on the island of New Zealand it is getting cleared out and for real the whole island is being attacked and they're up to about 67% clear and they are pushing the Trump's out and yeah people say that all the time they're having a war down there there is a great reduction of both sides but it's not like that Australia is having a fight but nothing like down there that place is on fire both sides probably last 20% so far

-there's a huge amount of loss going on here the infighting with a pseudo empire and the more lock and the clones continuously today the discussion was about the empire and Tommy F and tons of people going and it's about the modules or common empire ships and people are going to check it is a huge huge issue giant numbers and they're going into the holes momentarily another two or three percent potentially of the warlock the invasion is not going on the fleet is not ready it'll take a few days and they were thinking of trying when the storm was hitting because the pseudo empire is running the government up there for the most part and they've been doing it for a while it's going to happen very soon changes here and it sounds life it's because the pseudo empire is going to get beaten up and really it takes massive losses by the warlock for them to do that right now this bombing campaign is started up again in the West and they've hit to date probably 20% of their military targets and military installations and only about 5 to 10% of civilian but they're bombing like madness I mean it's real bombing and it's increasing in the Eastern hemisphere it's about 25% and 10% roughly a little less but it's getting there these are a big attacks and the fleet is being diminished not as rapidly as said but when the freeze out occurs it will be very fast the two sides will fight extremely hard and the series of the watchmen television show will be over in the movie will begin shortly after it'll be about a week after massive casualties will occur in in the New England area and people think that the launch will be coming shortly after and it looks like he might miss his window of opportunity people think that's true too he doesn't have the controls and that's what they're going after and Terminator Cisco that's happening and they're going after the place to take it what's there and bring it down they must have another idea or it's just in fighting encouraged by the max what's going on right now and we have other news

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Penrhyn Castle - WALES

#penrhyn #castle #castillo #wales #great britain #gran bretaña #united kingdom #reino unido #europe #europa

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Saint John the Baptist Reproving Herod, 1848

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Garden view at Penrhyn Castle / Wales

#welsh #Tourism #chateau #europe #castles