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  • Avalon Magick Poem

    For today’s post I would like to share a poem I wrote with all of my lovely readers!    This is a poem about Avalon and its magic, and how that inspires me daily. Avalon Magick at Work By Maranda Wabik Dear Lady, Tender of Sacred Isle, Priestess of the Goddess, Being of Dark and…

  • Morgana, Mermaids, and Melusine

    Hello my lovely readers!    For today’s post I would like to focus on watery faerie women.   This is a favorite subject of mine, as regular readers here will remember.   For today I want to focus on how Morgana, mermaids, and Melusine are connected.    In particular I want to focus on the…

  • YouTube Update

    I just wanted to let everyone know I am in the process of uploading my video. I has to be in three parts because apparently my 31 minute video was too long for the level of account I have. I hope you will like Origins of Morgana le Fay parts 1-3!

  • Morgana Le Fay as La Belle Dame Sans Merci

    For today’s post I would like to analyze the poem La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats.   This particular analysis will focus on my belief that the Belle Dame of the poem is none other than Morgan Le Fay! Within the poem we meet a knight who is lying near death and tells…

  • Sally Skellington: Pumpkin Queen

    Most people who read this blog will know I adore Tim Burton’s work, and especially Nightmare Before Christmas!   So for today’s Femme Fatale Friday here at White Rose of Avalon I will discussing Sally Skellington.   Sally was the lead female of this film, and she is getting her own continuation novel (due out…

  • Morgana as Vampire Faerie

    Today’s post will be one that I have been thinking about since I first saw Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty.   It is my favorite ballet of all time, and I loved that he used the premise of faeries also being vampires in order to allow the prince and Aurora to fall in love before the…

  • Claiming Enchantress Poem

    Today I would like to post a poem that is about my own path of Avalonian Enchantress.   I hope that you enjoy this work that I was inspired to create as part of my personal sovereignty! Claiming the Title of Enchantress By Maranda Wabik Great Morgana Mistress of Avalon Queen of Mists Powerful Faery…

  • Haunted by Morgana

    For today’s post I would like to share another work of short fiction. This is a story inspired by Arthurian legend and classic legend. I have entitled my short story Haunted by Morgana, and it is a story that integrates the work of Edgar Allan Poe with Arthurian legend. I know that this is shorter…

  • My Top 5 Favorite Classic Gothic Fantasy Fiction Works

    For today’s post I have decided to do a countdown of my favorite works of gothic fantasy fiction.    For this countdown I will only be choosing works of classical fiction!   I hope that you enjoy my thoughts.   Without further ado here’s the countdown. Number 5: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and…

  • Dark Faeries to Learn About this Samhain

    Hello my lovely readers, as we get closer and closer to the best day of the year, Samhain, I have decided to do a post on dark faeries that would be fun to learn about!   There will be a brief overview of several dark faeries, and I will give readers interested a suggested reading…