Box 4: Hazel Nut Business Papers & Study Materials
Scope and Contents
Faerie Faith is a Wiccan tradition with a foundation from the McFarland Dianic Tradition developed by Morgan McFarland (1941-2015) and Mark Roberts (1934-2012) circa 1971, Dallas, Texas. Mark Roberts left Dallas and the McFarland Dianics to pursue a new tradition, Hyperborea. Before moving to Atlanta, Georgia, he spent two year in New York. It was in Atlanta in 1979, that Mark met Epona and introduced her to the teachings of Hyperborea. Epona's and Mark's vision of what Hyperborea should be eventually led to the two parting ways. Epona, however, would take the McFarland-Hyperborea foundation and continue to develop it into what is now known as the Epona Branch of Faerie Faith. The Linda Kerr Faerie Faith papers contain a plethora of reading material in the following areas: Holidays, Religion/Philosophy, Mythology, Psychology/Shamanism, Ritual, Moon/Lunar/Planets, Faerie Faith, Shapes/Symbolism. Periodicals include scattered issues of newsletters and periodicals often with writings by Epona or advertisements for the Hazel Nut. Correspondence includes individuals requesting sample issues or subscriptions to the Hazel nut, businesses interested in exchanging zine-for-zine or advertising, correspondences seeking information on Faerie Faith or wicca in general, personal correspondences from acquaintances with Kerr, as well as correspondences from and/or between Kerr, Imré Rainey, Epona, Mark Roberts, and people that knew Roberts providing historical recollection of McFarland, Hyperborea, Faerie Faith, and Stargate (Mark Roberts discovery). The collection also contains the financial, tax, and related business records for The Hazel Nut, a journal of Celtic spirituality and sacred trees, manuscripts for each issue, as well as a near complete run of the published version of the periodical used as an information vehicle for the Faerie Faith tradition. Also included in the collection is the three volume set of the infamous "blue books" of study material for students of the Faerie Faith, Linda's herbal of pressed leaves from plants and trees that a representative of the Celtic Lunar Tree Calendar, as well as other symbolic paraphernalia used for the purpose of teaching, which includes a hawk wing, other large feathers, a felt triskele, candles, glass vase, a portion of a sheet covered in wax, other miscellaneous colored feathers, and beads.
Dates
- Acquired: Date acquired: 03/22/2016
Conditions Governing Access
Open to all researchers with some items restricted.
Extent
From the Collection: 4.00 Books
From the Collection: 2 items
Language
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections Repository
Valdosta State University Archives, Odum Library
1500 N. Patterson St.
Valdosta GA 30601 United States
7063728116
229-259-5055 (Fax)
archives@valdosta.edu