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Halloween is one night, but Winter Nights is -- always. That sense of high expectation as a child has now flowed from Halloween into...

Though little information of Sigrid, Queen of Sweden, exists in a historical text, the stories abound. Born a Swedish noblewoman Sigrid...

We have been blessed with a divine spark. It was handed down from Heimdall to our ancestors and from them to us. It is your sacred...

Autumn has officially started. The days are noticeably shorter. The nights are noticeably cooler. The trees are ablaze with the colors of...

Anyone who has raised a horn in honor of our ancestral Gods, has done so because of, or in spite of, Stephen McNallen. — Alsherjargothi...

Gather special items like candles, photos, flowers, or foods to place on an Ancestors’ altar. Do you have one particular Mother you wish...

Start with the memories. Those Halloween memories from your childhood -- pumpkins, costumes, candy, and the thrills of spookiness! Back...

As the harvest season is nearing its end, we come to a time of year where we look back with pride on the work we have accomplished...

Born in October of 1848 in Vienna, Guido Karl Anton List was the son of a prosperous middle-class family who traded and worked in the...

Today the term warrior is largely taken for granted, and it is also assumed that a priest would not be one who fights. That is not the...

The veil thins! As summer ends and we head into fall and winter, the thin veil that separates us from the ancestors grows yet thinner. ...

The AFA would like to wish all our Folk a bountiful Winter Finding! The ancient calendar only recognized two seasons. There was summer,...

Grimm’s fairy tales, as well as the classic book by Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden, taught me as a child that some gardens...

This is a simple ritual to connect with the goddess Eir. Eir is connected to healing, whether that be recovery from a physical ailment...

For many of us, it is a foreign concept that our word has meaning. For our ancestors, over many millennia, an individual’s word was their...

"Show yourselves men this day, for tomorrow will be too late. There is no safety for you but in victory!” -King Totila of the Ostrogoths...