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WILD FIRE Magazine features articles on fair trade, vegan 
lifestyles, fashion and well being.  The ladies behind the 
production are spectacular and extraordinary.  Joanna Kilkelly
and Kohii Love, babes of our future.  We sent down some items
for their Issue 3 and the images above are what they captured
from the lens to the pages of the magazine.

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Thank you, Joanna and Kohii, your beauty precedes you.

asta nielsen, a suffragette lion

Asta Nielsen, a wild and fancy free womyn from the earlier
1900s.  My healthy obsession with silent films has led me towards
this femme.  She is simply striking for her wit, minimalist style,
outrageousness, beauty, and devotion to womyn.
Die Asta was born in 1881, Denmark and lived until she left
this planet 1972, at age 90 in Denmark.  She often portrayed
strong willed, passionate womyn trapped by tragic consequence.
There are over 70 films with Asta, mainly made in Germany.

“Asta Nielsen, she is the most exquisite actress the screen 
has ever seen, her absolutely masterful portrayal and her strong, 
soulful depth produce the greatest artistic pleasure that film 
has to offer. Her artistry shakes me to the core.” 
Mary Wigman

“Asta Nielsen is the only female artist in film who can be 
considered outright as a genius and whose artistic achievements 
have the unforced quality of natural events.  Everyone who 
has ever enjoyed the pleasure of her friendship knows that she, 
like all the other real greats in the world of art, is also 
a significant human being whose exceptional sense of humor 
and deep wisdom about life are without parallel.”
Paul Wegener

"Asta Nielsen" means the power to speak of pathos, to see pain, 

and to find the middle path between Baudelaire's flower of evil 

and the sick rose of which Blake sang."

M. S. Fonseca

ellefolk quarterly newsletter v.7

Ellefolk v.7, our quarterly newsletter for Under The Root,
with coupon code too, is out among the ether.  The
following link will direct you to a subscription page.

http://eepurl.com/5hiE

Inside are swirling pixies circles, dandelions,  a sprite
survey, monsters, and a breathe from our Spring/Summer 2013
designs.

111 fae, sprite, elven names to conjure

Mary by Lucy Hardie Alvisa                    fast Alsen                     loving Alnosa                  clever Aena                     nosey Alle                        calm Beona                   truthful Brign                      dancing Bren                      musical Bittan                    sparkling Besane                 writer Cathen                 laughing Cosia                     serious Casele                   sleepy Cosena                 bossy Corane                 talkative Doranth               intuitive Derona                 of the flowers Demile                  woodland Dellar                    of the stars Domar                  of the lake Engatha                one who sews Euphren               of powerful magick Emathe                  of the sky Elmar                     of the arts Ephwar                 counselor Foresta                 forest sprite Fettam                 of the Moon Freylar                  of the roses Fistonia                    good Fresmar               mischievous Gamane               little Gisset                   gossamer Geffar                   graceful Goldame             water nymph Golar                     golden queen Hasan                    power Hepsonar            green fields Hethane              dewdrops Hollamia               of the grass Hopenny             of the lake Islatar                    of the trees Ilsepas                  golden haired Leftemi                    cotton Lopeth                  of the bluebells Leray                     of the birds Limpet                  dragon Lifthe                    dark haired Magendar           of the rainbow Mabellia               warrior Miphaneth         of languages Maizmar              of music Misellrai               mystical Nofar                    of the night Nephley               of words Nomaline            light Neesweth           kindness Niphlar                 laughter Opaline                of the garden Olsapine              gold Ottemai               silver Ottepha               of gifts Offsemar             nighttime Prearna                    courage Presmath            who does act Pincole                 dance and music Pinevair                home and hearth Phoetestay         beauty Queenstar          from the royal castle Quilesse               from the golden hills Questar                     of the stars Questaphane    gossamer wings Quistine               of the clouds Roselph                   golden orbs Ristain                   faery keykeeper Rifensar               faery tablet keeper Rometh                  of languages Remasay              light Silphane               music Silver                     myths and legends Simjay                   autumn Siphilmire            sapphires Semsebar            bells Tippy                     travel Totezane             animals Timplemay          land Twasar                  mind Tolsane                   intuition Uphren                   mischievous Umbar                  friend of elves Unile                     newborn babies Unefet                 health and vitality Unape                  apple trees Veronay               blue flowers Volsar                   nighttime Velmear               red hair Vamsar                 watches over children Vintespay            hospitals Xolain                    fairyland Xaymin                 communication Xyvinar                 summer Xpensomal         magick faery dust Xtephae               candlemaker Yetam                   winter Yampolane         health Yesmire               mind magick Yitten                    blue light Yaymar                 memory Zento                    spring Zephan                 all that is good Zetta                     luck Zimola                   blessings Zeph                      of the stars

the italian illustrator and his monsters

The work of Domenico Gnoli cast a shadow of particular
inquiry to my view.  After an initial search across the 
world wide web, the avenue emblazoned with his eye.

(b Rome, 3 May 1933; d New York, 17 April 1970)
Italian painter and stage designer. His interest in art was 
encouraged by his father, the art historian Umberto Gnoli, 
and his mother, the painter and ceramicist Annie de Garon, 
but his only training consisted of lessons in drawing and 
printmaking from the Italian painter and printmaker 
Carlo Alberto Petrucci (b 1881).  After holding his first 
one man exhibition in 1950, he studied stage design briefly 
in 1952 at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome; 
he enjoyed immediate success in this field, for example 
designing a production of William Shakespeare’s 
As You Like It for the Old Vic Theatre in London in 1955. 
He then began to live part time in New York, where he began 
to work as an illustrator for magazines such as Sports Illustrated. 
During this period he drew inspiration from earlier art, 
especially from master printers such as Jacques Callot 
and Hogarth, from whom he derived his taste for compositions 
enlivened by large numbers of figures stylized to the point 
of caricature.  In other works he emphasized the patterns 
of textiles or walls, boldly succumbing to the seduction of 
manual dexterity and fantasy in a style that was completely 
out of step with the prevailing trends of the 1950s.
biography found here 
you can read a swarm of goodness about him here

In 1962, a fairytale he had written and illustrated was 
published in English as Orestes, or, the Art of Smiling.

L’opera grafica di Domenico Gnoli, which was published 
by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore in 1985.

The below images are of a set of drawings dating from 1968, 
and collectively entitled Bestiario Moderno, or,  
Cos’è un mostro, 
(What is a monster?) 
These particular designs had first been printed in the 1983 
volume about Gnoli published by FMR.

dandelion, herb of the lion dentist

The name, Dandelion, comes from the French, dent de lion, 
or tooth of the lion.  A couple common names in lore for this
herb are priest's crown, pig's snout, pee in the bed, fairy clock, 
clock, clock flowers, clocks and watches, farmers clocks, 
old mans clock, wetweed, blowball, cankerwort, puffball, and
wild endive.

The Dandelion, though not occurring in the Southern Hemisphere, 
is at home in all parts of the north temperate zone, in pastures, 
meadows and on waste ground, and is so plentiful that farmers 
everywhere find it a troublesome weed, for though its flowers 
are more conspicuous in the earlier months of the summer, 
it may be found in bloom, and consequently also prolifically 
dispersing its seeds, almost throughout the year. 
excerpt and more reading 
http://botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/d/dandel08.html

As a detoxification herb, it helps cleanse the liver by stimulating the 
production of bile and its flow to the gallbladder, one avenue through 
which the body naturally removes toxins.  Dandelion leaves are 
also a diuretic. Steep the roots to make dandelion tea, or add 
the leaves to salads.  Dandelion is simply one of those unglamorous 
weeds that you've been poisoning or pulling out of your garden 
and lawn, stepping over or on, and possibly tossing it aside.  
This beauty is one of the world's most powerful healing plants.
The entire weed  can build and maintain good health:
boost your immunity, strengthen your liver, help you build 
strong blood, counter colds and the flu, increase your vitality.
My first introduction to the hundreds of hidden magiks in our own 
backyards was by Susun S. Weed with her enormous steps 
to enlighten the populace. 
 
This green menagerie may have left our typical diet but maybe it was
hiding until we have found it again.  Wellness Mama is a superb source
to find out more on the dandelion. 

image My Pantry Shelf

image Lara Allport

installation Regine Ramseier

print Hey Harriet

the fairy tale, pixy region and william browne

Fairy Feller's Masterstroke illustrated by Richard Dadd                        

The name "fairy tale" was first ascribed to them by Madame d'Aulnoy 
in the late 17th century (in French, conte de fées).

Folklorists have classified fairy tales in various ways.
Among the most notable are the Aarne-Thompson classification 
system and the morphological analysis of Vladimir Propp.
Other folklorists have interpreted the tales' significance, but no school 
has been definitively established for the meaning of the tales.

I am reading, most recently, The World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies,
Elves, and Other Little People by Thomas Keightley.  This novel
of 560 pages is bringing me so much warmth in the belly and 
cheeks.  My inherent pull towards folklore, tales, and those
supernatural beings described within began in my youth.  Not the
stories which were read and seen in pictures, it was and is the 
tickle of the unknown that gives me consistent belief that 
not everything is as it seems.. shadows of the peripheral, tiny noises 
in the backdrop, and quiet messages in the brain.  Somehow
I need to know that I do not know and the etherworld is the key 
to my mortality.

excerpt from a play called Britannia's Pastorals, 
writer William Browne, Devon (Pixy region)

Near to this wood there lay a pleasant mead,
Where fairies often did their measures tread,
Which in the meadows made such circles green,
As if with garlands it had crowned been;
Or like the circle where the signs we track,
And learned shepherds call't the Zodiac;
Within one of these rounds was to be seen
A hillock rise, where oft the fairy-queen
At twilight sate, and did command her elves
To pinch those maids that had not swept their shelves;
And, further, if, by maiden's oversight,
Within doors water was not brought at night,
Or if they spread no table, set no bread,
They should have nips from toe unto the head;
And for the maid who had perform'd each thing,
She in the water-pail bade leave a ring.

moral of the story:
remember to set out water, bread, and sweet butter
for the night or a pinch you will receive 

Frenn made by M & CH