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Drinking from the well of ancestral memory

How do we find that place of compassion deep in our soulful hearts to forgive our ancestors? For the mistakes that they made, the suffering they may have caused or endured, and for the wounds that they may have passed down to us through the generations?

history, memory, pilgrimage, storySerena Constance30 October 2021samhain, tree of life, Yggdrasil, ancestors, family history, Mayflower, Willaim Bradwell, Dorothy Bradwell, Well of Urd, storytelling

Witchery Tricks - The Murder of Elizabeth Bradwell, Great Yarmouth, 1645

Often it was just the scraps I’d saved for the small blackbird with a bright yellow beak and a clear eye, who would visit every morning and sing to me so sweetly. It was my joy to feed him whatever I had left from my meagre meals.