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Quick bio: I am a Witch who works with Familiars, poppets, and nature. I'm a writer and artist, with 13 cats and lots and lots of roosters; I like growing flowers in my garden, living on the edge of the ocean, and spending my time with nature. Unfortunately, violent harassment of Witches is going on strong, alive and well in Maine. My family has suffered greatly at the hands of violent crime in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. Be careful out there! I have Asperger's Syndrome which results in my rarely speaking verbally, but writing mountains of written words instead.



ME IN MAINE:

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Long Bio (very long):
Dear friends, casual acquaintances, total strangers, and people who will deny they know me:
My name is Wendy C. Allen.
I am a Hedgewitch of the Sea Witch type.
This is my Witch's Blog.
There is much confusion over the name Hedgewitch due to the change in the meaning of the word "hedge". Hedge originally meant: the dimension between the physical world and the spirit world; the dividing line between the two, where beings from either side could enter and communicate with the other. Today a hedge is a type of bush or shrub used to make a fence, so named because it divides two property lines.
Because so few people are well educated, most have no knowledge of the original meanings of half the words they speak in their daily vocabulary. The problem with this is that it causes them to than mistranslates other words which incorporate those same mistranslated words. This has happened with the word Hedgewitch.
The common misconception is that Hedgewitch is another title for a Green Witch, Garden Witch, or Kitchen Witch, because people hear the word "hedge" in the word "Hedgewitch" and assume this is meant in reference to a green leafy shrub, when in fact it is meant in reference to the fact that a Hedgewitch is a Witch who can cross into the hedge which divides our physical world from the spirit world and has absolutely nothing to do with plants or gardens at all!
A Hedgewitch by true definition, practices magic with the help of a Familiar, often a Faerie of some sort, which has traveled to our world through the hedge. As such Hedgewitches are commonly said to practice "Faerie Magic", which for some odd reason causes people to assume Faeries are little flowery garden things and so farther causes confusion, with Hedgewitch falsely being defined as a Green Witch.
A word of caution: Faeries ARE NOT cute little beings that flit about in pink tulle, flying from flower to flower on butterfly wings, granting wishes and doing nice things. Faeries are dangerous creatures with a deep dislike for Humans. They are short tempered, self centered, vain, violent, quick to enact justice, and show little compassion. They can change their size and physical appearance at will, so can APPEAR to be small pink winged creatures, but keep in mind that this is only an illusion meant to trick you. Most Faeries, without the Faerie Glamour, stand about 4 feet to 5 tall, have pale white to grey skin, large round eyes, and long thin fingers. They are telepathic empaths who can "get inside" your head and make you think they look like anything they want you to think they look like, wither it be a tiny pink flower fairy or a 30 foot tall snarling black dog. They have the ability to change energy fields (including brain wave patterns) and can thus not only make you see things differently than they really are, but can also heal illnesses or create them simply by changing the flow of energy as it passes by your body. They are rarely seen by Humans due to their ability to bend energy fields around them, resulting in them "becoming invisible".
The Fey are a race of beings astronomically more intelligent and advanced than Humans. Most Faeries show very little concern for Humans, thinking of them, in much the same manner as Humans think of ants and mosquitoes - an unintelligent annoyance to be swatted if it gets in your way, but otherwise you just ignore it and never think about it. As such only the extremist eccentrics of the Fey Race ever bother with Humans - they are Human Rights Activists, in the same manner in which PETA members are Animal Rights Activists. These are the Faeries witch we Humans thus know as "The Elementals". They are the nature conservationalists of the Faerie Realm, looking to preserve the Earth and prevent the extinction of it's lesser beings (us Humans being amoung the so-called lesser beings which they are trying to protect from extinction.) This is why so many people who work with Faeries, are also Green Witches, Garden Witches, and work closely with plants and animals. It's not that all Faeries are Nature Spirits, it's just that the Faeries who enjoy working with Humans tend to be the environmentalist type. Faeries who work with Hedgewitches, as a general rule are "Good Faeries", kind loving, peaceful, and seeking to help the Human Race (and often refer to the Human Witch as their "pet".) These "Nature Spirit" types usually come to the Witch without the Witch seeking their help, choosing the said Witch over other Humans because they see the potential in advising this Witch over a different Human. Once the initial contact has been made, the Witch can than call upon the help of this same Faerie again and again, whenever help or guidance is needed.
Not all Faeries who initiate contact with Humans are good or helpful however. Like the teen aged Human who finds it fun to tie a tin can to a cat's tail, throw rocks through windows, and paint-ball cars, there are many teen aged Faeries who do the same. Faeries have a much longer lifespan than Humans, living several hundreds of years, which means they have a period of about 200 years of being "a teenager", and many of those "teen aged" Faeries take great delight in tormenting the lesser animals, esp, the Human ones. Because of this, it is highly dangerous to call on the help of a Faerie at random, because more often than not, one of these teen aged prankster types wil be the one to answer your call. Many of them are actively on the look out for Humans seeking Faerie assistance, and are quick to jump to the call, but for their own entertainment. The results are often disastrous for the Human who requested Faerie help.
Just like Humans, however, the environmentalists and teen aged pranksters are only a small minority of the Fey Race. Their realm is bustling with teachers, businessmen, children, adults, and regular average workers just like our world is. Most of the Fey are too busy with their own lives to take any notice of Humans at all.
Like our Human world, Fae has it's "Einstein's" as well. The Scientists of Fea are almost "gods" in their abilities, when compared with the sciences of Humans. Not evil in the true sense of the word, Faerie Scientists are among the most dangerous Faeries for a Human to come into contact with. These Faeries are what we as Humans refer to as "The Greys". They are not extraterrestrial aliens from another planet as popular culture says, but rather Faerie scientists from another realm of our own Earth. Like Proctor & Gamble and it's tests on cats and dogs, "The Greys" are a group of scientists from a Faerie science laboratory, collecting Human specimens for their tests. As Faerie science advances, they gather more Humans for testing. The Faerie scientists are the reason for the out break of so many "new" illnesses (such as AIDS, New Swine Flue, etc) in resent years. They are highly dangerous Faeries because their research often results in loss of Human life.
Unfortunately, like our Human world, the Faerie Realm, also has it's "Hitlers". These are the most dangerous of all the Fey, and when finally banished from the Realm of Fey, are cast into our Realm for the Humans to deal with. These dictatorial Faeries, are power hungry control freaks, often masquerading under the title of "God". God is a Fearie word (not a Human wiord) and it does not mean a Heavenly Father or Creator Spirit, as it does in the Human world. The the language of Fey, God means "One in Power" or "One Who Seeks to Control" or "The Almighty One", in other words, a being who calls himself by the title of "God" is a dictator. It is important to understand that "God" is a title, not a thing. The "Gods" banished from the Fae and cast out into the World of Man, are very evil, dark Faeries with twisted minds, seeking to build up armies and kingdoms, with the goal being to create a powerful Human Army, to help them return to the Realm of Fae and take their "rightful place" on the throne as over lord over all of Fae. These power hungry Faeries, seek out Humans looking for answers to life, and deceive them with false promises.
Like the Teen aged Prankster Faeries mentioned above, these God Fae are also always seeking out Humans who call upon "higher authority" for assistance, and these Faeries, with all their vainity, will often make a grand show of pomp and circumstance with fire and lightening in order to dazzle the Human calling for assistance, thus causing the Human to start worshiping the Fae and calling the Fae "God" at the command of the Fae itself, who is proclaiming to be "God". Unfortunately, the influence of these Faeries is so powerful that they are able to gather up prophets who build up churches and religions to them. All of the world's religions, both the Christian and the non-Christian, were each originally founded by one of these Faeries and it's Human followers.
In closing, I will simple give warning: Being a Hedgewitch can be a wonderful experience, esp for those who choose the Green Witch style of Hedgewitchery and are able to communicate with the kind and helpful Nature Elemental Faeries. However, know what you are doing BEFORE you start, and NEVER call on the assistance of a Faerie unless you are absolutly certain you can gain the attention of one of the helpful nature types. Calling on the assistance of a Faerie, without full knowledge of what you are doing or who you are invoking to help you, can be extremely dangerous and have disastrous results. Like Humans, Faeries are neither good nor evil, but like Humans they can do good or evil things depending on their attitudes, occupations, and temperaments! Be careful!
Hedgewitches living on coastal beaches are sometimes called Covewitches. A cove is a hedge that separates the physical world from the spirit world at an entrance over water, usually the ocean.







Sea magic is any type of magic which utilizes the energy powers of the oceans. Ritual magic performed on the beach, purification baths in the ocean, rune casting with shells, green magic utilizing seaweed, knotted rope spell casting, shell divination, working with water elementals, and shorebird or fish totem spirits are all examples of using Sea Magic.










I am a Christo-Pagan. (ex-Mormon/LDS)
But what is a Christo-Pagan? Most Christo-Pagans grew up in very strict, very religious, Christian families (75% of Christo-Pagans started out as devote Catholics, Latter Day Saints, or Quakers - and on occasion Jews turned Christian. Christo-Pagans starting out from other religions is a rarity, which I think is partly caused by the fact that other religions do not tend to be so zealous in their fundamentalism.). These devote church members, however, follow the "old ways" of their faith. As I am myself an LDS Christo-Pagan, I will explain in those lines. 
For example a Mormon Christo-Pagan would be calling upon the help of Familiars and use seer stones, just as Joseph Smith himself had done. Like Emma Smith they use herbs and ritual chants to heal the sick. Like Smith and Young, they talk face to face with angels, Jesus, and God himself. They still use the Blessing Cloths of the Saints, just as the early Prophets of the Church did. In keeping with the pre-1979 teachings of the Church, they are farmers, living off the land, homeschooling their children, avoiding contact with Gentiles, women do not wear pants, do not cut their hair, and do not work in jobs outside the home, and the family keeps it's 3 year supply well stocked. They are known as the Orthodox Latter Day Saints, living the Churches rule as it was originally taught in the 1800's, not as it evolved in modern times. The problem comes in when the Gentiles get baptized into the Church and bring with them their worldly sins and wicked ways, with their public schooled children, their short haired worldly women, their unbelief in physical communion with angels, their anti-Mormon ideas about using seer stones, crystals, herbs, and blessing cloths, and their obsessions with growing wealthy, watching TV and eating meat.
As more and more of these unsaintly Gentiles got baptized into the church, their ways started having more and more influence on the teachings of the church coming out of Salt Lake headquarters, until in 1979, the Prophet enacted countless changes, in order that the church laws would be better adapted to the lifestyles of the Gentiles joining the Church. 




By doing the same things Smith did, as well as the same things done by Danial and Jaboc of the Old Testament and Jesus and the Maji of the New Testament, by dressing in garb no differeant than that worn by Jesus, I am accused of practicing Witchcraft and being a Witch and told that I have no business being in a Christian Church. Odd.

And that in the end is what it means to be a Christo-Pagan: A person who is called a Witch by Christians, but a Christian by Witches. One who is too witchy to be a Christian, but too Christian to be a Witch. Thus it is not an organized religious group, but rather an umbrella title given to people who are called Witches by Christians, and called Christians by Witches, making them an outcast of both not truly accepted by either, and forced to stand on their own without any posative support from a group and no one willing to fellowship with them. Odd, isn't that the way every one treated Jesus while he was alive too?



I am a writer. I used to write fiction, but lately I write non-fiction.
What is my genre? Extreme out-side of main-stream. My books are self published because no publisher will touch them. I am considered a renegade writer, one who is not afraid to speak my mind about my outrage against Proctor & Gamble, or criminals who masquerade as "religious leader" and "men of god". My books are accused by editors of being too-violent, too political, too M-rated, and too extreme to be considered readable by the mass-public. They are right, for when local religious leaders got a hold of my work, they insighted an religion crazed mob, to kill my pets, destroy my property, and burn down my home. What to find out just how extreme I can write? I'm the girl behind THIS. I am know as "The Voice of the Voiceless". I speak for the animals. I speak for the trees. I speak for the faeries. I speak for the children. I write to protect those who can not and will not be heard. I write for justice. I write for vengeance. I write to defend those who can not defend themselves. There are not many who read my work and like what they read.



I'm also an artist and author, and a part time sales rep (originally for Avon, but currently for Macy's)



My favorite group for about 21 years was Poison, but than I found out about Serj Tankian and he's my favorite singer now. 

My other faves are David Bowie, Alice Cooper, System of a Down, and my fave musician ever is Liberace`.






Liberace is like my ultimate hero. I started watching his show on TV when I was about 2 years old, and by te time I was 5 I had started dressing like him, and have dressed like him ever since. When I go out in public, my cloths cause commotions and every body is always stopping to ask my what it is I'm dressed up as; they get the shock of their lives when I tell them I'm not dressed up as anything, but that these are just my normal daily wear cloths. I've got Liberace` records all over the house. He's my constant inspiration.




I'm also a farmer, so I never really get any days off, which doesn't matter, because if I did, I'd spend my time doing what I already do, which is rescuing feral cats and unwanted rooster. Right now I've got 13 cats and about 70 roosters, though at one point I had over 200 roosters and 500 hens all at the same time (all pets). I used to a horse, for years and years, but she was a really old abused horse when I got her (lost one of her eyes from her past owner beating her, she was really messed up when I got her). I had her 14 years. The vet guessed she was close to 50 years old at the time she died.



Food? I'm a vegetarian, and I love pizza and all sorts of Asian food. I think I eat rice with almost every meal! Cause we live on a farm I eat a lot of fresh vegetables which we grew ourselves. Swiss Chard I think is my fave, and also Nappa Cabbage.



Books. Ouch. I've been collecting books since I was 3 years old, and I buy books at a rate of about 10 to 20 a week. Today my collection stands at 10,000 books and 7,000 comic books, a total of 17,000 books, meaning I have more books than the local library which only has 12,000 books. I love Ben Franklin, he's one of my "heroes", I've read everything he wrote at least once. My favorite authors are Kieth Laumer, Don Rosa, Edgar Alan Poe, and JKRowlings.











I'm a Whovian and proud of it!
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You can find out more about me here: Who Is EelKat? & On Being Homeless & An Inside Look At Life On the Streets



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Meet my family: EelKat (me) & Tiddledeewinks (my mom) & johnny_5_Allen (my 1st brother) & Juice-Allen (my 2nd brother) & FlashAllen (my 3rd brother)
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Want to find out more about me as an artist and my art?
Behind the Art: How I Became An Artist & My Art Equipment
I've been online since 1997. In that time I have built over 1,000 web sites, many of them art related. Here is a list of my art related web site addresses. Feel free to visit them. Thanks!
Copper Cockeral Cards & Gifts Home Page Copper Cockeral Cards & Gifts Premium CafePress Store My first CafePress shops (I now have 80+): http://www.cafepress.com/pastlerooster http://www.cafepress.com/oobmepier
Copper Cockeral Cards & Gifts Zazzle Galleries: Copper Cockeral Cards & Gifts The Pidgie Fund The Twighlight Manor Press on Zazzle The Rabbit Hole
Copper Cockeral Cards & Gifts on RazooPress Copper Cockeral Cards &Gifts on MySpace Copper Cockeral Cards &Gifts on Printfection Copper Cockeral Cards &Gifts on Squidoo
Copper Cockeral Cards &Gifts on FaceBook The Twighlight Manor Press
Here is a list of my art related Squidoo lenses: Copper Cockeral on Squidoo: US Postage Stamps from Copper Cockeral Cards & Gifts Designer Shoes From Copper Cockeral My Cats & Kittens Line My Rooster Line My Flamingo Line My Peacock Line Blueberry Kitten My Dog Tag Art Pink Flamingo 13 Pastel Rooster Watercolor Art by EelKat Framed Art for Children's Rooms Greeting Cards For All Occasions Gifts for Halloween Gifts for Frog Collectors Gifts For the Mainers Purple Iris Watercolor Art by EelKat Blue Jays Valentine's Day Gifts Just Married: Mermaid Hula! Designer T-Shirts For Your Dog Decorative Ornaments From Copper Cockeral The Pidgie Fund
Zazzle vs CafePress a debate run by EelKat



I'm running a social network about faeries, aliens and UFOs so you'd expect me to know something about them right? Here you go, a few of my sites on these areas of study:
Amphibious Aliens & Water Faeries UFOs in Maine Phookas: Evilest of the Faeries Do You Believe?






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