Monthly Archives: July 2013

Spirits on fog shrouded hills

Posted on July 29, 2013 by esotericnz

FAIRIES AND ELVES. Not all the supernatural beings of the olden Maoris were grim monsters or fierce goblins; the fairies and elves are in a different category. The hill near Palmerston South, known as Puketapu, is sometimes swathed with fog … Continue reading →

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Elemental Offering

Posted on July 22, 2013 by esotericnz

From “The Forerunner”, the magazine of the Havelock Work issue 18 (1914)

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Maori Divination

Posted on July 15, 2013 by esotericnz

Collected by Famed Local historian Herries Beattie in the 1920’s: An intelligent old Native said to me:—“When I was a boy I went on voyages and knocking about with White sailors I lost my belief in the ancient ideas of my … Continue reading →

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Madness in the Courthouse

Posted on July 8, 2013 by esotericnz

  POLICE COURT.—This Day.   Auckland Star, Volume X, Issue 2840, 4 June 1879, Page 3   With thanks to the national library of New Zealand http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=AS18790604.2.18&srpos=113&e=——-100–101—-2magic+spell–

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The Poet’s Gods

Posted on July 1, 2013 by esotericnz

THE POET’S GODS. Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 296, 1 November 1922, Page 12   With thanks to the national library of New Zealand http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=MW19221101.2.54.3&e=——-100–1—-0distant+gods–

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