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sweetdreamsjeff · 11 months ago

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An introduction to Jeff Buckley: "I would listen to anything: The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Judy Garland, Robert Johnson, Thelonious Monk, Bartk, Mahler. And I asked a lot of questions".

By Neil Crossley published October 17, 2023

From his soaring, unbridled falsetto to his sonic artistry, Jeff Buckley defied conventions and left a catalogue of songs that is timeless and unique

On the night of 29 May, 1997, six weeks shy of his 31st birthday, Jeff Buckley waded fully clothed into a channel of the Mississippi River in Memphis. He was carefully watched from the bank by his roadie, who had warned him repeatedly about the perilous currents. The roadie looked away momentarily to remove a boombox from the water's edge and when he looked back, Buckley had disappeared. Six days later, on 4 June, Buckley's body was discovered floating near the city's famed Beale Street area, by a passenger on a riverboat called the American Queen.

In the days and weeks that followed, all manner of theories were put forward. Had Buckley ignored his roadie's warnings and been drunk or stoned when he went into the water? Had the intense pressure of producing a second album as sublime as his first simply been too much? The coroner concluded it was accidental drowning but the theories continued. Whatever the truth, it was a tragic end for an artist who clearly had a great deal left to give.

Jeffrey Scott Buckley was born in Orange County, California in 1966 and was the result of a short-lived relationship between cult folk singer-songwriter Tim Buckley and Mary Gulbert. From the age of four, Jeff was raised by Gulbert and his stepfather, Ron Moorhead.

"My mum would play piano and cello all the time and my stepdad had great musical taste," recalled Buckley. "I would listen to anything: The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Judy Garland, Robert Johnson, Thelonious Monk, Bartk, Mahler. And I asked a lot of questions. Learning about music seemed effortless. I guess I must have had natural abilities. Looking back, it felt like instinct."

At five he picked up his grandmother's guitar and learnt to play it. By 13, he wrote his first song about a break-up with a girl. After graduating from high school, he studied at the Los Angeles Musicians' Institute and played in various rock and reggae bands, including a stint with dancehall reggae artist Shinehead. In 1990, he moved to New York and formed the band Gods And Monsters, a hip yet short-lived outfit.

Buckley began a solo career as a singer-songwriter, playing a borrowed Telecaster, in clubs and coffee houses in New York's East Village and building up a considerable following among audiences, critics and fellow musicians.

He was snapped up by Columbia Records and released the Live At Sin-é EP in November 1993. The EP was well received but the response was nothing compared to the rave reviews bestowed on his full-length debut album Grace, released in 1994. Unlike the EP, Buckley recorded the album with a full band, and collaborated on writing with guitarists Gary Lucas and Michael Tighe, which gave his sound fresh dynamics and textures.

It was a bold and stunning record, full of sweeping choruses and powerful arrangements. Buckley's brand of eclectic folk was distinctive and unique. As Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote in a review for AllMusic, "Grace sounds like a Led Zeppelin album written by an ambitious folkie with a fondness for lounge jazz".

In 1998, a collection of unreleased recordings called Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk, was released posthumously. Two live albums appeared in 2000 and 2001, and other compilations and live albums were released.

As always when artists die young, speculation is rife about what might have been - the stellar works they may well have gone on to create. But in his short life, Jeff Buckley forged a collection of songs that enshrined him as an astonishingly innovative and unique talent.

1. Grace - Grace (1994)

There's an unbridled feel to this title track, which sets the tone for the album with its soaring vocals, intricate guitar patterns and strident, cathartic feel. At its heart, the song is a celebration of life and Buckley's vocals are emotive and intense as he conveys a sense of wonder for the beauty of the natural world. "There's the moon asking to stay / Long enough for the clouds to fly me away / Oh, it's my time coming / I'm not afraid / Afraid to die".

Vocally and instrumentally, it's reminiscent of Radiohead, which is no great surprise as Buckley was an inspiration for Thom Yorke. As Yorke's friend Dougie Payne of Travis told Far Out magazine: "When [Radiohead] were recording Fake Plastic Trees, they were having trouble with it, and they couldn't get it to work. So, they went out to see Jeff Buckley play on the tour when it was just him and his electric guitar."

The band were bowled over by Buckley's performance. "Radiohead went back to the studio and Thom completely changed the way that he was singing and used that falsetto. You can kind of see the comparisons now. And that says a lot for how inspiring the show was."

Much of the track's strength comes from the live performance in the studio. This is a band at the top of its game, honed by relentless touring and capable of taking the music to real heights. This tight unit includes the formidable talents of co-writer Gary Lucas [a guitarist from Captain Beefheart's band whose instrumental Rise Up To Be formed the basis for Grace], Danish-American bassist Mick Grondahl and drummer Matt Johnson. By the end of the track, Buckley is screaming out the high notes as the whole sonic bombast builds towards a resolution.

2. Lover You Should've Come Over - Grace (1994)

The pain and longing of unrequited love is the focus of this hauntingly beautiful ballad written with Gary Lucas, which is built around Buckley's intricate fingerpicking. There's a dreamy, melancholic feel to the track, which features a sublime string arrangement from Karl Hans Berger.

Buckley's performance here is raw and intimate and the song really showcases the emotive feel of his vocals. It has become one of his most enduring and beloved compositions.

"It's never over, my kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder / It's never over, all my riches for her smiles when I slept so soft against her / It's never over, all my blood for the sweetness of her laughter / It's never over, she's the tear that hangs inside my soul forever."

The song runs to almost seven minutes, but it's so entrancing that you barely notice. Every syllable from Buckley sounds heartfelt and true. As ever, the chords and melodies veer to the unexpected. From the mournful organ in the intro through to the squalling jagged guitar and drum flams at the outro, this is perfection.

3. Last Goodbye - Grace (1994)

The second single from the album, after the title track, and a haunting ballad that became a belated hit in 1995. Here, Buckley mourns the death of a relationship and focuses on the pain of letting go. The chorus is soaring and anthemic, while tasteful piano and string parts add depth and texture to the song.

Even from his early solo coffee house gigs, Buckley chose to play an electric rather than an acoustic, a decision that added to his distinctively different style. Buckley mainly played a borrowed 1983 Fender Telecaster and a Rickenbacker 360/12, but also used several other guitars, including a black Gibson Les Paul Custom and a 1967 Guild F-50 acoustic. When on tour with his band, he used Fender amps for a clean sound and Mesa Boogie amps for overdriven tones.

4. Mojo Pin - Grace (1994)

Another song written with Gary Lucas (his instrumental is called And You Will) and dating back to the Live at Sin-é EP, the opening track from Grace and one that showcases his eclectic blend of folk, rock and soul.

High guitar note swells and harmonics enhance the beautifully haunting intro before Buckly's plaintive falsetto enters the mix. Sparse, fingerpicked guitar follows, forming a warm backdrop for the first few vocal lines: "I'm lying in my bed / The blanket is warm / This body will never be safe from harm / Still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal".

The lyrical premise of the song focuses on the 'mojo pin' in question being pulled from his heart, leaving him hurt and exposed. It's a restrained, tasteful arrangement, with smatterings of toms, bass and cyclical guitar picking. The whole ensemble continues to ebb and flow while Buckley's warm vocal falsetto glides and meanders across the whole.

5. Hallelujah - Grace (1994)

Written by Leonard Cohen and released on his 1984 album Various Positions, this track has been covered by artists such as John Cale, Rufus Wainwright, KD Laing, Myles Kennedy (with Jeff's Telecaster) and Regina Spektor. But it was Jeff Buckley's version that has really seared itself into the global consciousness.

It's a hauntingly beautiful cover, impeccably realised by Buckley. In his hands, the song attains a real fluidity, ebbing and flowing, quickening and slowing. Much of its power lies in its minimalism and sparsity. The only accompaniment is Buckley's guitar - his Telecaster - and this really enhances his breathtakingly emotive delivery.

His version has been perceived as sexual and Buckley once said it was "a hallelujah to the orgasm". But at its core the song is a soulful exploration of faith, love and what it means to be human. As April Johnson wrote in Singersroom.com in 2023, "Buckley's voice is both powerful and vulnerable, conveying a sense of longing and spiritual yearning that is both moving and inspirational."

Hallelujah is one of Buckley's most iconic and enduring tracks and has become a classic song in its own right. For many, it is the definitive version of Cohen's bitter lament about love and loss.

* "Chords are depictions of emotions" - 5 Joni Mitchell songs that showcase her guitar and songwriting genius

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ohwaitwhatdamn · 1 year ago

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I finally found information about your death

It was on Capitol Hill off Broadway

August 23rd

I was 2,556 miles away with the worst migraine I ever had

I could feel something was going to be bad

When I returned to work my voicemail box was filled with messages from your mother

She told me you died from an overdose

I will always think about how you came out with they/them pronouns during the reentry group at the jail

"Gender is for you alone" is what you said when you placed your hand on your chest while wearing the orange jail-issued shirt and ignoring the other inmates

I can still hear her thick Tennessee drawl as she explained to me the county coroner was "keeping him until I can find money to bring him home..."

She is alone and the only one left in your family as she battles Stage 4 cancer

I keep thinking about how the last thing you said to me was you didn't want to finding housing in areas of high drug use

"I want things to be different..." then you finished with saying "Okay, well cool man. See you on the 30th." before you hung up the phone.

I can still hear the way you say "okay, well cool man."

It fucking sucks

You aren't just the third client I have had that has died

You are a person and I won't forget you

#case manager #case manager blues #le sigh #dealing with grief #death of a client #poems about my clients #poems on tumblr #poems about life #poetry #spilled ink #writing #spilled thought #poets and writers

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baybelletrist · 5 months ago

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This is a gut punch. The current Supreme Court is a disaster on wheels.

This is also yet another reason to vote for Biden — not necessarily because he’s the best possible living person to be president of the United States but because he isn’t Donald Trump.

Don’t like Biden’s stance on Israel? Me neither. Trump’s is much, much worse.

Think Biden makes a lot of verbal gaffes and says dopey things? Yeah, same. Do I even need to draw you a picture of Donnie’s word salad vomit?

And I’m sorry, how many felony counts has Biden been charged with? Go ahead, think about it. I’ll wait.

Look, we absolutely do need strong national third parties in this country. At the moment? We don’t have any. A vote for Kennedy is as good as a vote for the orange dumpster fire. Third-party candidates are way more viable in local elections. When I was in grad school, I lived in a city that had three Greens on the City Council, and that made a difference.

Trump, with the active connivance of Mitch fucking McConnell, got three justices onto the SCOTUS, and it’s going to fuck this country up for decades. Do not give him another chance.

(And while I’m at it, do not forget to vote your entire ticket. Those local elections can make a huge difference. During the height of the COVID pandemic, a number of hard-right Republican coroners refused to put COVID on death certificates as cause of death. You think that didn’t distort the numbers? Of course it did. Vote for school board, county commissioners, city Council members, coroners… In those smaller venues, third-party candidates have a way better chance.)

so today the supreme court decided to slap me in the face with a dead fish.

so the supreme court overturned chevron, which is an administrative law case that sounds really boring to read aloud. but this is extremely important precedent that conservatives have been trying to overturn since it got enacted.

basically, chevron as a legal decision that said that judges should play a "limited, deferential role" when they evaluate the actions of agency experts. basically it says, "judges don't have absolute knowledge of all things, and so they should be understanding and allow agency experts to have leeway in statutory interpretation so they can make decisions about things that they themselves are experts in." basically saying, "hey, judges don't know how to clean air. maybe the environmental protection agency should determine the best way to keep air clean."

which sounds pretty straightforward, except laws aren't straightforward like that, so this was a pretty big deal especially in terms of like...what's good for the environment. what's good for fishing rules. what's good for air quality.

chevron set out a legal test for courts to determine whether they should defer to agency decisions so long as congress hasn't explicitly discussed something to do with those terms. conservatives have wanted to overturn this for decades purely so business interests can operate without worrying about regulations.

and on top of THAT: the supreme court just allowed cities to enforce bans--with criminal consequences--on people experiencing homelessness sleeping outside.

i expected both of these overturns but it still SUCKS.

#us supreme court #us politics #fuck mitch mcconnell #fuck republicans #fuck trump #scotus term limits now

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conandaily2022 · 1 year ago

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mubashirnews · 2 years ago

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American attorney Elliot Blair was 'victim of a brutal crime' in Rosarito Beach, Mexico, death, family claims

CNN — An American public defender who died this month while celebrating his first wedding anniversary in Mexico “was the victim of a brutal crime,” his family said, noting a coroner’s liaison told them the case was sent to a local prosecutor “to conduct a possible homicide investigation.” Elliot Blair, 33, a deputy public defender in Orange County, California, died from “severe head trauma,”…

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An American attorney found dead in Mexico was 'the victim of a brutal crime,' his family claims | CNN : Inside US

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Man Dies In Apparent Suicide After Jumping From Disneyland Parking Structure

A 51-year-old man, later identified as Christopher Christensen, the principal of a Huntington Beach elementary school, has died after allegedly jumping from the Mickey & Friends parking garage at Disneyland. According to Anaheim Police, the 9-11 call came in just before 9 p.m. When officials arrived, they found them deceased; Orange County Coroner later confirmed […]

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Elementary School Principal Dead in Apparent Disneyland Suicide

William T. Newland Elementary School An elementary school principal died in an apparent suicide after jumping from a multistory parking structure at Disneyland in California, officials said. Anaheim Police said they found a man dead when they were called to the amusement park just before 9 p.m. on Saturday. On Sunday, the Orange County coroner identified the man as 51-year-old Christopher…

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merymoonbeam · 2 years ago

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I had a “oh shit” moment so I’m adding more. This time we are gonna talk about Truth-Teller

Read whole up there 👆🏻 before reading the rest.

The Fragarach

I was reading @icedflames “Truth-teller is Gwydion” post (which is a theory that came true)

In that post she talked about “The Fragarach” which is the sword of First High King in Irish Mythology. So I went to look a little 👀

What I’m gonna add in this part

Truth-Teller and Ramiel Stone connection

Fionn’s spear

In Irish mythology, Fragarach (or Freagarthach), known as "The Whisperer", "The Answerer", or "The Retaliator", was the sword of Nuada, the first high king. The sword was forged by the gods and was meant to be wielded only by those who posed above the stone of destiny (the Lia Fail) which roared and the sword whispered in response.

But what is interesting is the orange highlight.

Fragarach = Truth-teller btw.

Also this truth teller post by @offtorivendell talks about fragarach.

The sword was ment to be wielded who posed above the stone of destiny. Which is Lia Fail. I talked about above how sarah might have used the Lia Fail as an inspo for the Stone on top of Ramiel.

Let’s remember for a second. Lia fail:

The Lia Fáil; meaning "Stone of Destiny" or "Speaking Stone" to account for its oracular legend) is a stone at the Inauguration Mound (Irish: an Forrad) on the Hill of Tara in County Meath, Ireland, which served as the coronation stone for the High Kings of Ireland.

Ramiel has a stone on top of it.

Cassian snorted, but his words were serious. “There’s a sacred stone atop it. Touch the stone first, and you win. It will transport you out immediately. (Acosf)

and it is a living stone. that sang to him.

But when he’d touched the onyx monolith, when he’d felt that ancient force sing into his blood in the heartbeat before it had whisked him back to the safety of Devlon’s camp … It had been worth it. To feel that. With a solemn bow of his head toward Ramiel and the living stone atop it, Cassian caught another swift wind and soared southward.(acofas)

so Lia fail is speaking stone and Cassian felt the sacred stone on top of ramiel sing into his blood and describes it as the living stone.

Sooo... in the first post I talked about how Fionn was sleeping in a cave but we needed the horn(Bryce)to wake him up. And then we have Lia fail(ramiel stone) and The Fragarach(TT)

All three things are in Acotar right now and all of it are about High King who is Fionn in Acotar world 👀🤭

Is he gonna wake up?

Also in the first post I talked about how The fourth dread trove might be a spear bc King arthur has a dagger, a sword and a spear. (Pls read the first part of this beast of a post)

Fionn in the myths also has a spear.

He is often depicted hunting with his hounds Bran and Sceólang, and fighting with his spear and sword. The tales of Fionn and his fiann form the Fianna Cycle or Fenian Cycle (an Fhiannaíocht), much of it narrated by Fionn's son, the poet Oisín.

And in the Alatyr stone part of this post I thought that stone might also be the connection to Ramiel stone which (Again pls read all above bc they are all connected and this post got out of hand lmfao*crying*)

Here’s a few remembers.

This is what Alatyr stone is:

The Alatyr in East Slavic legends and folklore is a sacred stone, the "father to all stones", the navel of the earth, containing sacred letters and endowed with healing properties. Although the name Alatyr appears only in East Slavic sources, the awareness of the existence of such a stone exists in various parts of the Slavdom. It is often mentioned in stories and referred to in love spells as "a mighty force that has no end."

As you can see... alatyr stone is described as “"a mighty force that has no end." and Cassian describes the Ramiel stone as “that ancient force” 👀🤭

More about Alatyr stone:

In the Dove Book, the Alatyr is associated with an altar located in the "navel of the world", in the middle of the World Ocean [ru], on the Buyan island. On it stands the World tree. The stone is endowed with healing and magical properties. Spiritual verses describe how "from under the white-alatyr-stone" flows a miraculous source that gives the whole world "food and healing." The Alatyr is guarded by the wise snake Garafena and the bird Gagana.[1]

Fourth dread trove was on an altar🤭

A fourth object lay on the altar, veiled in shadow. But she couldn’t make out more than a gleam of age-worn bone—(acosf)

Also alatyr stone is in the navel of the world. Ramiel is described as being the center of Night Court.

Ramiel. The sacred mountain. The heart of not only Illyria, but the entirety of the Night Court. (Acofas)

So ending it with...

Truth-teller, ramiel stone, The Horn, Starsword/Gwydion,Fionn. It is all connected.

The Wild Hunt-Fionn-First Gods

Disclaimer: I'm not saying I'm right about all of this. Just theorizing here.

This is gonna be long post so buckle up...

Because this is a long post I’m gonna write what I’m gonna talk about in this post. Also not every myth points to one thing and not every thing we have in the books are inspired just one thing. To me it looks like sarah used different myths from different countries and connected them all together.

The Wild Hunt myths and how sarah might use them for plot for the next books and crossover

First gods are still running free in the world

Narben is actually a spear not a sword? Or fourth dread trove is a spear?

Fionn is not dead but sleeping?

Fionn is(was) the leader of wild hunt and betrayed the Daglan.

Let’s start....

The Wild Hunt

It is described like this in mythology

The Wild Hunt is a folklore motif that occurs in the folklore of various northern European cultures. Wild Hunts typically involve a chase led by a mythological figure escorted by a ghostly or supernatural group of hunters engaged in pursuit. The leader of the hunt is often a named figure associated with Odin in Germanic legends, but may variously be a historical or legendary figure like Theodoric the Great, the Danish king Valdemar Atterdag, the Welsh psychopomp Gwyn ap Nudd, biblical figures such as Herod, Cain, Gabriel, or the Devil, or an unidentified lost soul or spirit either male or female. The hunters are generally the souls of the dead or ghostly dogs, sometimes fairies, valkyries, or elves.

and this is from Acosf

“The Daglan delighted in terrorizing the Fae and humans under their control. The Wild Hunt was a way to keep all of us in line. They’d gather a host of their fiercest, most merciless warriors and grant them free rein to kill as they pleased. The Daglan possessed mighty, monstrous beasts—hounds, they called them, though they didn’t look like the hounds we know—that they used to run prey to ground before they tortured and killed them. It’s a terrible history, and much of it might be elaborated myths.” (Acosf)

I think the reason we got Valkyries plot in Acosf sarah is going to connect to wild hunt. But the whole Wild Hunt plot is not only about that.

In Acosf we met Lanthys. He is one of the First gods. (thank to @lesolehabitantdelalune for showing me this quote because without her I wouldn't catch this.)

Cassian took a bite of food. A good sign that this, at least, was acceptable territory. “When you lived in the human world, you had legends of the dread beasts and faeries who would slaughter you if they ever breached the wall, didn’t you? Things that slithered through open windows to drink the blood of children? Things that were so wicked, so cruel there was no hope against their evil?” The hair on her neck rose. “Yes.” Those stories had always unnerved and petrified her. “They were based on truth. Based on ancient, near-primordial beings who existed here before the High Fae split into courts, before the High Lords. Some call them the First Gods. They were beings with almost no physical form, but a keen, vicious intelligence. Humans and Fae alike were their prey. Most were hunted and driven into hiding or imprisonment ages ago. But some remained, lurking in forgotten corners of the land.” He swallowed another mouthful. “When I was nearing three hundred years old, one of them appeared again, crawling out of the roots of a mountain. Before he went into the Prison and confinement weakened him, Lanthys could turn into wind and rip the air from your lungs, or turn into rain and drown you on dry land; he could peel your skin from your body with a few movements. He never revealed his true form, but when I faced him, he chose to appear as swirling mist. He fathered a race of faeries that still plague us, who thrived under Amarantha’s reign—the Bogge. But the Bogge are lesser, mere shadows compared to Lanthys. If there is such a thing as evil incarnate, it is him. He has no mercy, no sense of right or wrong. There is him, and there is everyone else, and we are all his prey. His methods of killing are creative and slow. He feasts on fear and pain as much as the flesh itself.”(acosf)

So we learn quiet a few things from this quote.

Lantys is a first god.

First gods were near-primordial beings who existed before the High Fae split into courts, before the high lords.

They were beings with almost no physical form, but a keen, vicious intelligence.

But some First gods remained, lurking in forgotten corners of the land.”

These are all important.

Later we find that Lanthys was a part of the Wild Hunt.

“Oh, I do not think so,” Lanthys seethed. “I rode in the Wild Hunt before you were even a scrap of existence, witch from Oorid. I summoned the hounds and the world cowered at their baying. I galloped at the head of the Hunt, and Fae and beast bowed before us.”(acosf)

Before we dive more into to the Wild Hunt I wanna show this.

The description of the First Gods (with almost no physical form, lurking in forgotten corners of the land.”)reminded me of something. I think this is a scene as a fandom we find not important but I think it might be one of the biggest hints?

that scene happens in Acofas. In Mor's chapter.

But Mor scented nothing, saw nothing. The tendril of power she speared toward the woods revealed only the usual birds and small beasts. A hart drinking from a hole in an iced-over stream. Nothing, except—.There, between a snarl of thorns. A patch of darkness. It did not move, did not seem to do anything but linger. And watch. Familiar and yet foreign. Something in her power whispered not to touch it, not to go near it. Even from this distance. Mor obeyed. But she still watched that darkness in the thorns, as if a shadow had fallen asleep amongst them. Not like Azriel’s shadows, twining and whispering. Something different. Something that stared back, watching her in turn. Best left undisturbed. Especially with the promise of a crackling fire and glass of wine at home. “Let’s take the short route back,” she murmured to Ellia, patting her neck. The horse needed no further encouragement before launching into a gallop, turning them from the woods and its shadowy watcher. Over and between the hills they rode, until the woods were hidden in the mists behind them. What else might she see, witness, in lands where none in the Night Court had ventured for millennia?(acosf)

She sees a shadows... and what we know about the first gods? with almost no physical form.

She was in the lands where none in the Night Courth had ventured for Millennia... what we know about the first gods? lurking in forgotten corners of the land.

Did she saw a First God? Are there more like it? Why mor was the one to see it? I will talk about mor more later in the post but a little hint... it is interesting that The Morrigan is called ""great queen" or "phantom queen" in myths.

Okay back to Wild Hunt.

In Wikipedia it shows that in different countries the leader of the wild hunt is different.

I'm gonna talk about two of them in this post.

Brittany: Arthur

Ireland: Fionn mac Cumhaill and the Fianna; Manannán—also known as The Fairy Cavalcade.

Brittany:Arthur

We are starting with Brittany:Arthur. (I added the wiki page if you want to read about more because I can't talk about everything.

I think Sarah used this legend as a part of Gwydion-TT-Narben.

Arthur was the King. I think the most popular myth about this is Excalibur and Sword in the stone(some stories say they were one and the same)

Excalibur is the legendary sword of King Arthur, sometimes also attributed with magical powers or associated with the rightful sovereignty of Britain. It was associated with the Arthurian legend very early on. Excalibur and the Sword in the Stone are not the same weapon, though in some modern incarnations they are either the same or at least share their name.

Now let's look at Gwydion.

“Some strains of the mythology claim that one of the Fae heroes who rose up to overthrow them was Fionn, who was given the great sword Gwydion by the High Priestess Oleanna, who had dipped it into the Cauldron itself. Fionn and Gwydion overthrew the Daglan. A millennium of peace followed, and the lands were divided into rough territories that were the precursors to the courts—but at the end of those thousand years, they were at each other’s throats, on the brink of war.” His face tightened. “Fionn unified them and set himself above them as High King. The first and only High King this land has ever had.”(acosf)

From Hosab we know that Gwydion is actually Starsword.

It was its twin. The Starsword began to hum within its sheath, glittering white light leaking from where leather met the dark hilt. The dagger—.The male dropped the dagger to the plush carpet. All of them retreated as it flared with dark light, as if in answer. Alpha and Omega. “Gwydion,” the dark-haired female whispered, indicating the Starsword.(hosab)

Other things we know about Gwydion(Starsword)

That your son, not you, retrieved the Starsword from the Cave of Princes in Avallen’s dark heart. That your son, not you, stood among the long-dead Starborn Princes asleep in their sarcophagi and was deemed worthy to pull the sword from its sheath. How many times did you try to draw the sword when you were young? How much research did you do in this very study to find ways to wield it without being chosen? (Hoeab)

like Arthur, Ruhn was the one to pull it out.

But we know that the sword actualy belongs to female heir of Theia.

“Theia was dead by that point,” Aidas said flatly. “Pelias slew her.” He nodded to the Starsword in Ruhn’s hand. “And stole her blade when he’d finished.” He snarled. “That sword belongs to Theia’s female heir. Not the male offspring who corrupted her line.”

@offtorivendell talks about this in this post if you wanna read it. Theia's secret legacy

so how this connects to Truth-Teller and Narben?

Arthur had two other weapons.

A dagger and a spear.

Other weapons have been associated with Arthur. Welsh tradition also knew of a dagger named Carnwennan and a spear named Rhongomyniad that belonged to him. Carnwennan ("little white-hilt") first appears in Culhwch and Olwen, where Arthur uses it to slice the witch Orddu in half. Rhongomyniad ("spear" + "striker, slayer") is also mentioned in Culhwch, although only in passing; it appears as simply Ron ("spear") in Geoffrey's Historia. Geoffrey also names Arthur's shield as Pridwen; in Culhwch, however, Prydwen ("fair face") is the name of Arthur's ship while his shield is named Wynebgwrthucher ("face of evening").

We know that Truth-teller and Gwydion(Starsword) are twins. Alpha and Omega. (I made a post about this. You can find it here Alphan&Omega)

Now... Narben. We know little about Narben.

“Amarantha destroyed one,” Amren said. Cassian started. “I never heard that.” Amren amended, “Rumor claimed she dumped one into the sea. It would not come to Amarantha’s hand, nor the hands of any of her commanders, and rather than let the King of Hybern attain it, she disposed of it.” Azriel asked, “Which sword?” “Narben.” (Acosf)

"Narben was even older than Gwydion,” Rhys said. “Where the hell was it?” (Acosf)

Narben’s powers had not been the holy, savior’s light of Gwydion, but ones far darker. (Acosf)

Rhys studied her blade. “Narben is a death-sword. It’s lost, possibly destroyed, but stories say it can slay even monsters like Lanthys.” (Acosf)

These are all the things we know. It is a little bit sketchy that Sarah had given us so little information about it.

Also it looks like she is using Arthur's weapons as an inspo for Gwydion and Truth-teller...which one is missing? A spear. So that makes me question if Narben is not a sword but a spear? Or the Fourth dread trove is a spear? 👀

now...we are done with Brittany:arthur as the leader of the wild hunt. this other part is more in depth with the where I think the story is going.

second leader of the wild hunt we are going to talk about :

Ireland: Fionn mac Cumhaill and the Fianna

Ireland: Fionn mac Cumhaill and the Fianna; Manannán—also known as The Fairy Cavalcade.

Fionn mac Cumhaill , often anglicized Finn McCool or MacCool, is a hero in Irish mythology, as well as in later Scottish and Manx folklore. He is leader of the Fianna bands of young roving hunter-warriors, as well as being a seer and poet.

He was a seer...So is Elain. 👀👀

He is often depicted hunting with his hounds Bran and Sceólang("raven" and "survivor”), and fighting with his spear and sword.

in this it is mentioned that he hunts with his hounds. and has a spear? another spear mentioning. Narben is a spear? Or the Fourth dread trove we haven’t found yet is a spear?

From what lanthys said there were hounds in Wild Hunt in Acotar.

and nesta says that the hounds Lanthys showed her in the vision looked like the beasts from Court Of Nightmares.

Nesta could see the portrait Lanthys wove into the air around them. She saw herself on a black throne, a matching crown in her unbound hair. Enormous onyx beasts—scaled, like those she’d seen on the Hewn City’s pillars—lay at the foot of the dais. (Acosf)

and these are a few description of the hounds on the Hewn City's pillars.

Great, scaled black beasts were carved into those gates, all coiled together in a nest of claws and fangs, sleeping and fighting, some locked in an endless cycle of devouring each other. Between them flowed vines of jasmine and moonflowers. I could have sworn the beasts seemed to writhe in the silvery glow of the bobbing faelights throughout the mountain-city. The Gates of Eternity—that’s what I’d call the painting that flickered in my mind. (Acomaf)

We at last came to a throne room of polished ebony. More of the serpents from the front gates were carved here—this time, wrapped around the countless columns supporting the onyx ceiling. It was so high up that gloom hid its finer details, but I knew more had been carved there, too. Great beasts to monitor the manipulations and scheming within this room. The throne itself had been fashioned out of a few of them, a head snaking around either side of the back—as if they watched over the High Lord’s shoulder. (Acomaf)

and we have the prophecy from acomaf

Life and death and rebirth Sun and moon and dark Rot and bloom and bones Hello, sweet thing. Hello, lady of night, princess of decay. Hello, fanged beast and trembling fawn. Love me, touch me, sing me. (Acomaf)

continuing with Fionn...

Fionn in the myth literally has the same name as the high king we learned about in acosf.

Is it a coincidence that Fionn is the leader of Wild Hunt in myths and we have Fionn in Acosf who rose up to Overthrow the Daglan?

Was the Fionn, from acotar, the leader of the Wild Hunt in acotar?

Rigelus mentions that the fearsome warriors they built were traitors. They joined the Fae and overthrow his siblings.

“Can’t you?” The cold voice slithered through the intercom. “You are Starborn, and have the Horn bound to your body and power. Your ancestors wielded the Horn and another Fae object that allowed them to enter this world. Stolen, of course, from their original masters—our people. Our people, who built fearsome warriors in that world to be their army. All of them prototypes for the angels in this one. And all of them traitors to their creators, joining the Fae to overthrow my brothers and sisters a thousand years before we arrived on Midgard. They slew my siblings.” (Hosab)

moving onto myth again. I will be doing a little bit paraphrasing.

In the myth Fionn is the son of Cumhall mac Trénmhoir. Cumhall was the leader of Fianna. The Fianna were a band of warriors also known as a military order composed mainly of the members of two rival clans, "Clan Bascna" (to which Finn and Cumall belonged) and "Clan Morna" (where Goll mac Morna belonged), the Fenians were supposed to be devoted to the service of the High King and to the repelling of foreign invaders. After the fall of Cumall, Goll mac Morna replaced him as the leader of the Fianna, holding the position for 10 years.One feat of Fionn performed at 10 years of age according to the Acallam na Senórach was to slay Áillen, the fire-breathing man of the Tuatha Dé Danann, who had come to wreak destruction on the Irish capital of Tara every year on the festival of Samhain for the past 23 years, lulling the city's men to sleep with his music then burning down the city and its treasures. When the King of Ireland asked what men would guard Tara against Áillen's invasion, Fionn volunteered. Fionn obtained a special spear (the "Birga") from Fiacha mac Congha ("son of Conga"), which warded against the sleep-inducing music of Áillen's "dulcimer" when it was unsheathed and the bare steel blade was touched against the forehead or some other part of the body. This Fiacha used to be one of Cumall's men, but was now serving the high-king.After Fionn defeated Áillen and saved Tara, his heritage was recognised and he was given command of the Fianna: Goll stepped aside, and became a loyal follower of Fionn, although a dispute later broke out between the clans over the pig of Slanga.

Keep Tuatha Dé Danann in mind because I'm gonna use later on--soon.

There is a mention of High King. We know that Fionn was the first and the last high king acotar world saw.

Moving onto Fionn’s death from the myth.

According to the most popular account of Fionn's death, he is not dead at all, rather, he sleeps in a cave, surrounded by the Fianna. One day he will awake and defend Ireland in the hour of her greatest need. In one account, it is said that he will arise when the Dord Fiann, the hunting horn of the Fianna, is sounded three times, and he will be as strong and as well as he ever was.

He is not dead but sleeping. He will wake up when the horn is sounded three times. And you know who just arrived at Acotar with the horn tattooed to her back? BRYCE. Is this all crossover is about. To wake up Fionn from his sleep? This is how the crossover is going to affect the Acotar world? Is Fionn good or bad?

Rigelus says that the horn was stolen from his people. The Daglan. And the wild hunt was their way to terrorize the fae. And if fionn betrayed them and rose againts them...he might have stolen the horn from them?

In the myth Fionn was the leader of Fianna.

Fianna were small warrior-hunter bands in Gaelic Ireland during the Iron Age and early Middle Ages. A fian was made up of freeborn young males, often aristocrats, "who had left fosterage but had not yet inherited the property needed to settle down as full landowning members of the túath". For most of the year they lived in the wild, hunting, raiding other communities and lands, training, and fighting as mercenaries. Scholars believe the fian was a rite of passage into manhood, and have linked fianna with similar young warrior bands in other early European cultures

Fian was a Rite of passage into manhood? does that sound familiar? hello...Blood rite.

“What’s the Blood Rite?” “What it sounds like.” He rubbed his neck. “When an Illyrian warrior comes into his full power, usually in his twenties, he has to go through the Blood Rite before he can qualify as a full warrior and adult.

It seems like sarah took inspo from here.

And you know which mountain is sacred for Illyrians...RAMIEL.

and you know how ramiel was described.

Ramiel. The sacred mountain. The heart of not only Illyria, but the entirety of the Night Court.

Cassian soared toward it, unable to resist Ramiel’s ancient summons. Different—the mountain was so different from the barren, terrible presence of the lone peak in the center of Prythian. Ramiel had always felt alive, somehow. Awake and watchful.

Felt alive somehow? Is it because Fionn is sleeping in there? With Fianna?

Ramiel rose higher still, a shard of stone piercing the gray sky. Beautiful and lonely. Eternal and ageless. No wonder that first ruler of the Night Court had made this his insignia. Along with the three stars that only appeared for a brief window each year, framing the uppermost peak of Ramiel like a crown. It was during that window when the Rite occurred. Which had come first: the insignia or the Rite, Cassian didn’t know. Had never really cared to find out. (Acofas)

The thing Cassian says about the insignia is really interesting. Which one came first? The rite? or the insignia?

We know that the courts took place after the fall of Fionn in Acotar.

Rhys’s eyes flicked to Ataraxia, then to Cassian. “Some strains of the mythology claim that one of the Fae heroes who rose up to overthrow them was Fionn, who was given the great sword Gwydion by the High Priestess Oleanna, who had dipped it into the Cauldron itself. Fionn and Gwydion overthrew the Daglan. A millennium of peace followed, and the lands were divided into rough territories that were the precursors to the courts—but at the end of those thousand years, they were at each other’s throats, on the brink of war.” His face tightened. “Fionn unified them and set himself above them as High King. The first and only High King this land has ever had.” Nesta could have sworn the last words were spoken with a sharp look toward Cassian. But Cassian only winked at Rhys. “What happened to the High King?” Feyre asked. Rhys ran a hand over a page of the book. “Fionn was betrayed by his queen, who had been leader of her own territory, and by his dearest friend, who was his general. They killed him, taking some of his bloodline’s most powerful and precious weapons, and then out of the chaos that followed, the seven High Lords rose, and the courts have been in place ever since.”

My theory is that...THE SECOND DAUGHTER was the first ruler of night court.

Did she come back to Acotar and was the first ruler of the Night court? @silverlinedeyes talks about in "The Illyrians—A (Crack) Theory" how illyrians might be demons from hel and the second daughter came back to the acotar with them.

in Hosab we learn that Theia was the queen who betrayed Fionn and she crossed to Crescent city. She had two daughters as far as we know. Helena and the second daughter. What we know about the second daughter is that...she vanished into the night. With Hosab we know that Ruhn and Rhys looks similar...maybe because they came from the same lineage? Ruhn is descendant of Pelias and Helena. So if the second daughter came back to acotar and was the first ruler...that makes ruhn and rhys a distant relative? so that explains why they look the same.

Aidas laughed coldly. “Your celebrated Prince Pelias, the so-called first Starborn Prince, was an impostor. Theia’s other daughter got away—vanished into the night. I never learned of her fate. (Hosab)

The winged, dark-haired male who stepped in behind her … Bryce gasped. “Ruhn?” The male blinked. His eyes were the same shade of violet blue as Ruhn’s. His short hair the same gleaming black. This male’s skin was browner, but the face, the posture … It was her brother’s. His ears were pointed, too, though he also possessed those leathery wings like the two other males.(Hosab)

so there is that.

Which had come first: the insignia or the Rite, Cassian didn’t know. Had never really cared to find out.

Back to Ramiel. Ramiel has a stone on top of it. A sacred stone.

Cassian snorted, but his words were serious. “There’s a sacred stone atop it. Touch the stone first, and you win. It will transport you out immediately.

Before we dive into the stone. We have to talk about Tuatha Dé Danann. I mentioned when I was talking about Fionn.(Also danann...Ruhn Danaan. Hello.) (@offtorivendell talked about Tuatha Dé Danann in her dusk court post so if you wanna read it I will add here.)

The Tuath(a) Dé Danann , meaning "the folk of the goddess Danu"), also known by the earlier name Tuath Dé ("tribe of the gods"),are a supernatural race in Irish mythology. Many of them are thought to represent deities of pre-Christian Gaelic Ireland.

In Irish mythology, *Danu is the reconstructed mother goddess of the Tuatha dé Danann (Old Irish: "The peoples of the goddess Danu"). Though primarily seen as an ancestral figure, some Victorian sources also associate her with the land.

so they are a folk of the goddess Danu. and she is a mother goddess...interesting. We have the Mother in acotar 👀🤭

the members of Tuath(a) Dé Danann.

Prominent members of the Tuath Dé include The Dagda ("the great god"); The Morrígan ("the great queen" or "phantom queen"); Lugh; Nuada; Aengus; Brigid; Manannán; Dian Cecht the healer; and Goibniu the smith, one of the Trí Dé Dána ("three gods of craft").[5] Several of the Tuath Dé are cognate with ancient Celtic deities: Lugh with Lugus, Brigit with Brigantia, Nuada with Nodons, and Ogma with Ogmios.

The Dagda...sounds familiar—The Daglan.

“The Fae were not the first masters of this world. According to our oldest legends, most now forgotten, we were created by beings who were near-gods—and monsters. The Daglan. They ruled for millennia, and enslaved us and the humans. They were petty and cruel and drank the magic of the land like wine.”

and mor. I talked above how Mor was the one seeing one of the "first gods" so it is connected to that.

Other things I think are important about Tuatha Dé Danann.

The Tuatha Dé Danann are described as a supernatural race, much like idealized humans, who are immune from aging and sickness, and who have powers of magic. The powers most often attributed to the Tuath Dé are control over the weather and the elements, and the ability to shapeshift themselves and other things. They are also said to control the fertility of the land; the tale De Gabáil in t-Sída says the first Gaels had to establish friendship with the Tuath Dé before they could raise crops and herds.

Weather and Elemental magic? Sounds familiar. Rhys talks about how the high fae once more elemental.

“Once, the High Fae were more elemental, more given to reading the stars and crafting masterpieces of art and jewelry and weaponry. Their gifts were rawer, more connected to nature, and they could imbue objects with that power.” (Acosf)

and shapeshifting. Rigelus talks about how the Fae from bryce's world could shapeshift.

“Not your kind of Fae, of course—your breed dwelled in a lovely, verdant land, rich with magic. If it’s of any interest to you, your Starborn bloodline specifically hailed from a small isle a few miles from the mainland. And while the mainland had all manner of climes, the isle existed in beautiful, near-permanent twilight. But only a select few in the entirety of your world could shift from their humanoid forms to animal ones."

They are also connected with fertility of the land.

Prison island.HELLO

According to legend, the pegasuses had come from the island the Prison sat upon—had once fed in fair meadows that had long given way to moss and mist. Perhaps that was part of the decline: their homeland had vanished, and whatever had sustained them there was no longer.

So Pegasus were originally from Prison island but whatever had sustained them there was no longer? So... Prison island is dusk court and they were the ones sustaining the fertility of the land but when they vanished they took the magic with them because there was no more Fae to sustain it?

and this is about where Tuath(a) Dé Danann lives.

They live in the Otherworld, which is described as either a parallel world or a heavenly land beyond the sea or under the earth's surface. Many of them are associated with specific places in the landscape, especially the sídh mounds; the ancient burial mounds and passage tombs which are entrances to Otherworld realms.The Tuath Dé can hide themselves with a féth fíada ('magic mist') and appear to humans only when they wish to.

and these are a few description of Prison island.

I stared up at the sharp grassy slope of the small mountain, shivering at the veils of mist that wafted past. Behind us, the land swept away to brutal cliffs and a violent pewter sea. Ahead, nothing but a wide, flat-topped mountain of gray stone and moss. (Acomaf)

Velaris had been brisk, sunny. This place, wherever it was, was freezing, deserted, barren. Only rock and grass and mist and sea. (Acomaf)

also it is interesting that Avallen in CC is also an island and they have the power to use shadows and mist...

But rumor claimed Ruhn’s magic was more like those of his kin who ruled the sacred Fae isle of Avallen across the sea: power to summon shadows or mist that could not only veil the physical world, but the mind as well. Perhaps even telepathy. (Hoeab)

Another reason his father resented him: beyond his Starborn gifts, the bulk of his magic skewed toward his mother’s kin—the Fae who ruled Avallen, the mist-shrouded isle in the north. The sacred heart of Faedom. (Hoeab)

And bryce notes when she comes to Velaris that they wear clothes like they do in Avallen.

The petite, dark-haired female with angular eyes like Fury’s drew up short. Her red-painted mouth dropped open, no doubt at the blood all over Bryce’s face and body. This female was … Fae. Clad in beautiful, yet thoroughly old-fashioned clothes. Like the stuff they wore on Avallen.

so sarah seem to take one thing from the myths and use it in several parts and try to connect them in some way—we will see how they all connect together in the books 👀.

and we lastly have the part I will connect to Ramiel... the four treasures of the Tuath(a) Dé Danann. (Also four threasures... four dread trove. It is not connected to them but it is funny lmao)

Dagda's Cauldron

The Spear of Lugh

Claíomh Solais (The Sword of Light)

Lia Fáil (The Stone of Fal)

Side note: @offtorivendell is going to make a full post about all of these four treasures and she is going to dive more into lugh’s spear being narben and gwydion being the sword of light. So keep your eyes on that 👀🤭 I will tag it when she posts it. Here is the post

Cauldron..I MEAN. It literally explains itself.

The spear of Lugh:

No battle was ever sustained against it, or against the man who held it.

This is one of the other reasons why I think Narben or fourth dread trove might be a spear not a sword.

Remember what Amren said about narben:

“I don’t know, but she found it, and when it would not bend to her, she destroyed it. As she did all good things.” It was as much as Amren would say about that terrible time. “It was perhaps in our favor. Had the King of Hybern possessed Narben, I fear we would have lost the war.”

Claíomh Solais (The Sword of Light):

The Sword of Light or Claidheamh Soluisis a trope object that appears in a number of Irish and Scottish Gaelic folktales. The "Quest for sword of light" formula is catalogued as motif H1337.

The sword may be rendered in English as the "Sword of Light", or "Shining Sword".

HELLO GWYDION/STARSWORD.

Narben’s powers had not been the holy, savior’s light of Gwydion, but ones far darker.(acosf)

The Starsword sang with light, her power flowing into it. Activating it. And nothing had ever felt so right, so easy, as plunging the blade into the bony chest of the wounded Reaper. It arced, bellowing, black blood spurting from its withered lips. (Hosab)

Also Sword of light is described as this.

No one ever escaped from it once it was drawn from its sheath, and no one could resist it. The sword is also described in the Tain legend as "Nuadu's Cainnel"—a glowing bright torch.

You know what that reminds me of.

With shaking fingers, she put it back into its sheath. Dimmed its light. But the Starsword still sang, and Bryce had no idea what to make of it. Of the blade that had slain that which was unkillable. (Hosab)

Lia Fáil (The Stone of Fal):

This is where it gets interesting for Ramiel.

Coronation stone for the High Kings. Fionn was a high king. 👀

Ramiel has a stone on top of it.

Cassian snorted, but his words were serious. “There’s a sacred stone atop it. Touch the stone first, and you win. It will transport you out immediately. (Acosf)

and it is a living stone. that sang to him.

so Lia fail is speaking stone and Cassian felt the sacred stone on top of ramiel sing into his blood and describes it as the living stone.

In myths it is said that the Lia Fail has powers.

The Lia Fáil was thought to be magical: when the rightful High King of Ireland put his feet on it, the stone was said to roar in joy. The stone is also credited with the power to rejuvenate the king and also to endow him with a long reign.

Does this sound familiar? It is like the gates in Crescent City. They took power when people made a wish and this way Bryce was like a gate because her powers comes from the gate.

“Your power came from the Gate—with a shit-ton of firstlight mixed in. So your magic—beyond the light, I mean— needs to be powered up. It relies on firstlight, or any other form of energy it can get. You’re literally a Gate: you can take in power and offer it. But it seems the similarity ends there. The Gates can store power indefinitely, while yours clearly peters out after a while.”(Hosab)

So what if the stone is keeping Fionn alive in Ramiel? what if it's feeding him? Or is the stone on top of ramiel is a daglan creation and under ramiel they have their feeding point like in hosab?

Also Lia fail is connected with Fianna. As I mentioned they were the warriors that served Fionn.

It is from this stone the Tuatha Dé Danann metonymically named Ireland Inis Fáil (inis meaning island), and from this Fál became an ancient name for Ireland. Fál in Old Irish means several things like hedge, enclosure or king, ruler. In this respect, therefore, Lia Fáil came to mean 'Stone of Ireland'. Inisfail appears as a synonym for Erin in some Irish romantic and nationalist poetry in English in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; Aubrey Thomas de Vere's 1863 poem Inisfail is an example. The term Fianna Fáil ("the Fianna, warriors, or army of Ireland"; sometimes rendered "the soldiers of destiny") has been used as a sobriquet for the Irish Volunteers; on the cap badge of the Irish Army; in the opening line of the Irish-language version of Amhrán na bhFiann, the Irish national anthem; and as the name of the Fianna Fáil political party, one of the main parties in Ireland.

this is from what I added to fianna. > Scholars believe the fian was a rite of passage into manhood, and have linked fianna with similar young warrior bands in other early European cultures

In blood rite they try to touch the stone on top of Ramiel. In Fianna they have fian which is a rite to passage into manhood. Fianna is connected with Lia Fais(speaking stone) and Ramiel has a stone on top of it that sings.

So I think that's all. Thanks for reading.

#literally if you read all of this and made sense of it I love you #my mind is a mess rn so 🤪#fionn #buyan island #first gods #alatyr stone #ramiel #wild hunt #high king #fragarach #Truth-teller

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Laniece Dorsey, 17 (USA 1986)

17-year-old Laniece Dorsey underwent a legal abortion at a Family Planning Associates facility in Orange County, California. Because of this, she never saw her 18th birthday.

On February 6, 1986, abortionist Kenneth Wright carried out the surgical abortion. Laniece soon lapsed into a coma. She was taken to a local hospital, but died later that same day.

The autopsy discovered a “thick adherent layer of fibrinous material containing moderate numbers of inflammatory infiltrates” in Laniece’s uterus. However, the medical examiner decided to list the cause of death as cardio-respiratory arrest as a complication of anesthesia.

Wright was sued for Laniece’s death. He already had a long history of malpractice lawsuits. These included but were not limited to permanent disability from injuries, “abortions” on people who were not even pregnant, and denying clients informed consent by failing to disclose risks of abortion. He was still allowed to continue his career as an abortionist, killing Josefina Garcia (he was listed as a co-defendant in her death) and Kimberly K. Neil.

The FPA corporation was founded, owned and operated by Edward “Fast Eddie” Allred. He and his facilities were accused of racism, which allegedly contributed to the subpar treatment and resulting deaths of Patricia Chacon, Mary Pena and Ta Tanisha Wesson. Allred showed his attitude towards pregnant Black teens like Laniece when he gave the following statement in an article in the San Diego Union:

“When a sullen black woman of 17 or 18 can decide to have a baby and get welfare and food stamps and become a burden to all of us, it’s time to stop. In parts of South Los Angeles, having babies for welfare is the only industry these people have.”

The abortion facility that killed Laniece was a member of the National Abortion Federation. FPA facilities have been granted this status despite a massive list of lawsuits, including client deaths. Women and girls killed by Edward Allred’s corporate empire of facilities include Denise Holmes, 16-year-old Patricia Chacon, Mary Pena, Josefina Garcia, Joyce Ortenzio, 19-year-old Tami Suematsu, Ta Tanisha Wesson, 13-year-old Deanna Bell, 16-year-old Nakia “Kia” Jorden, Maria Leho, Susan Levy, 18-year-old Christine Mora, Emmeko Reed, Maria E. Rodriguez, Chanelle Bryant and Kenniah Epps.

Orange County Sheriff-Coroner Case No. 86-0682-AK

Orange County Superior Court Case No. 51-04-15

"California Death Index, 1940-1997," , FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPMM-26K : 26 November 2014), Laniece Dorsey, 06 Feb 1986; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.

#tw abortion #pro life #unsafe yet legal #tw ab*rtion #tw murder #abortion #abortion debate #death from legal abortion #fpa #national abortion federation #black lives matter

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DEADLY WOMEN DAILY: LINDA HAZZARD

Meet Linda Hazzard, a woman in the 1800’s who put the life of others in her hands, promising them proper treatment that would heal them from their sicknesses. However, her words would soon turn into lies, sealing the fate of at least 15 people, earning herself the title: “Starvation Doctor.” Let’s begin with her story.

WHO WAS LINDA HAZZARD?

Linda Laura Hazzard was born in 1867 and was raised in Carver County, Minnesota, along with her seven siblings. Not much is known about her life growing up, other than getting married at 18 and having two children. However, she grew bored of that life and left her husband and children in 1902 in order to pursue her career in the health field. Even though Linda didn’t have a medical degree, she was still given a license to practice medicine in the state of Washington. Linda, along with a few others like her, found a loophole in the licensing law that allowed people to practice alternative medicine without having a medical degree. Linda strongly believed in the work of fasting, claiming that fasting is what cures all illnesses, as it expels all the toxins and imbalances from the body. She claimed that illnesses are caused by food and the digestive tract, and fasting allows the body to rest and cleanses itself from all the toxins that food causes. She claimed the ultimate cause of most diseases is impure blood that comes from an impaired digestive system. Throughout her career she had written a few books about what she thought was the science around fasting and its health benefits. She wrote The Science of Fasting, Fasting For The Cure of Disease, and Diet In Disease and Systemic Cleansing. In her first book, The Science of Fasting, she claims that she had studied under Edward Hooker Dewey, MD, who was very well known and specialized in fasting, and wrote a book called The Gospel of Health. She also wrote in her first book, “Appetite is Craving; Hunger is Desire. Craving is never satisfied; but Desire is relieved when Want is supplied.”

Linda opened up a sanitarium in a small town of Olalla, Washington, called Wilderness Heights. However, over time the sanitarium gained itself the nickname “Starvation Heights,” as witnesses would see patients who ran away from there, looking so skinny and frail, begging for food on the streets. Linda’s healthcare plan consisted mainly of fasting, and her inpatients would fast for days, weeks, and even months at a time before they escape or pass away. Her diet plan consisted of only small amounts of soup, oranges, asparagus juice, tomatoes, and orange juice. She would also force her inpatients to hours of enemas, where they would scream out in pain. Sometimes Linda would use up to 12 quarts of water in just one enema session. Lastyly, she would give her inpatients a “massage,” which consisted of beating her fists in their foreheads and backs.

IT STARTED WITH A FEW… BUT NO ONE TOOK THEM SERIOUSLY

Linda’s first victim before moving to Washington with her new husband, Samuel Christman Hazzard, happened in 1902. The coroner claimed the death was due to starvation and reported it to the police, but sadly nothing could be done due to not being licensed to practice medicine. Linda got away with murder for the first time. It wasn’t until after she moved to Washington, where she was legally licensed to practice medicine. However, even her first few victims would get swept under the rug before anyone dared to try and get justice. Her first Washington victim was named Daisy Maud Haglund, a Norwegian woman whose parents immigrated to America, and even owned Alki Point. Daisy died at the age of 38, leaving behind her 3 year old son, after fasting for 50 days under Linda’s care. Daisy’s son, Ivar, grew up to own a very successful seafood restaurant where he fed millions of people. Unfortunately, more victims followed after Daisy. Ida Wilcox died in 1908, following Blanche T. Tindall and Viola Heaton in 1909. Following that came Maude Whitney who died in 1910.

THE MAN WHO FINALLY MADE THE HEADLINES

Earl Edward Erman, a civil engineer, went to Linda Hazzard for medical care in 1911, and unfortunately passed away. After his death, The Seattle Daily Times headline read, “Woman ‘M.D’ Kills Another Patient.” Edward was rescued and made it to the Seattle General Hospital on 28th, right before he ended up dying from starvation. Investigators were able to gather more information about Linda and the way she treated her patients, all thanks to Earl who kept a diary log of everything he had eaten, almost every day, up until he was taken to the hospital.

February 1 - Saw Dr. Hazzard and began treatment this date. No breakfast. Mashed soup dinner. Mashed soup supper.

February 5 through 7 - One orange breakfast. Mashed soup dinner. Mashed soup supper.

February 8 - One orange breakfast. Mashed soup dinner. Mashed soup supper.

February 9 through 11 - One orange breakfast. Strained soup dinner. Strained soup supper.

February 12 - One orange breakfast. One orange dinner. One orange supper.

February 13 - Two orange breakfast. No dinner. No supper.

February 14 - One cup strained tomato broth at 6PM

February 15 - One cup hot strained tomato soup night and morning

February 16 - One cup hot strained tomato soup AM and PM. Slept better last night. Head quite dizzy. Eyes yellow streaked and red.

February 17 - Ate three oranges today

February 19 - Called on Dr (Dawson) today at his home. Slept well Saturday night.

February 20 - Ate strained juice from two small oranges at 10AM. Dizzy all day. Ate strained juice from two small oranges at 5PM.

February 21 - Ate one cup settled and strained tomato broth. Backache today just below ribs.

February 22 - Ate juice of two small oranges at 10AM. Backache today in right side just below ribs.

February 23 - Slept but little last night. Ate two small oranges at 9AM. Went after milk and felt very bad. Ate two small oranges at 6PM.

February 24 - Slept better Wednesday night. Kind of frontal headache in AM. Ate two small oranges 10AM. Ate one and a half cups hot tomato soup at 6PM. Heart hit up to ninety-five minute and sweat considerable.

February 25 - Slept pretty well Thursday night. Ate one and a half cups tomato broth 11AM. Ate one and a half cups tomato broth 6PM. Pain in right below ribs.

February 26 - Did not sleep so very well Friday night. Pain in right side just below ribs in back. Pain quite in night. Ate one and a half cups tomato broth at 10:45AM. Ate two and a half pump small oranges at 4:30PM. Felt better afternoon than for the last week.

This diet continued up until Earl was hospitalized. He died right before he was able to get a blood transfusion.

BUT, PATIENTS KEPT COMING…

Despite all of the deaths and suspicious activity going on in the hands of Linda Hazzard, she still had a large following of people who believed in her work. Not even the healthcare director of Seattle was able to intervene, since Linda had her license to practice medicine and all of her patients had willingly admitted themselves under her care. The healthcare director tried to convince one of her patients, a former legislator, Lewis Ellsworth Rader, who was also a publisher of a magazine Sound Views, to leave the care of Linda Hazzard. Unfortunately, he refused to leave, and he passed away in 1911, weighing less than 100 pounds as a 5’11 man. Linda would even steal from some of her patients, Ivan Flux being one of those people. He was an Englishman who came to America to purchase a ranch, and died after 53 days of fasting under Linda’s care. She somehow gained control of his cash and property, and Ivan’s family were informed that he had died with only $70 left. Her treatments were so brutal, that one of her patients, Eugene Stanley, aged 26, commited suicide in 1909.

TWO SISTERS, ONE DEATH, LINDA’S DOWNFALL

Dorothea and Claire Williamson who were both in their early 30’s, came from a very wealthy family. They saw an advertisement for Linda’s sanitarium in a Seattle magazine, and even though they weren’t suffering from any severe illnesses, they did have some minor issues that they wanted to have cured. Claire had been told that she had a dropped uterus and wanted it fixed, while Dorothea complained of arthritis pains, along with swollen glands. The two went to meet Dr. Hazzard, but didn’t tell their parents where they were going, as her family did not support alternative medicine. Linda ended up telling the girls that the sanitarium wasn’t quite ready at the moment, but promised to put them up in the Buena Vista apartments, and she would treat them there. They arrived in February, and by the time April came along, they were already becoming delirious. The sisters only lived one cup of tomato broth that was given to them up to twice a day, but they were fed nothing more. They were also given enemas that would last hours, and the girls started to faint during their treatments. In April they were both rushed to the sanitarium, both of them weighing around 70 pounds. Linda took her cruel actions further by talking to the girls about their business affairs, and offered to store their jewelry somewhere safe for them. To add insult to injury, Linda had her attorney arrive before the girls were taken to the sanitarium, and had Claire sign paperwork to her will, stating that she would leave 25 pounds sterling every year to Linda’s sanitarium, also stating that incase of death, she wanted her body cremated under the control of Linda Hazzard. Of course, this signature only came from Claire, as Linda knew she was the sickest one out of them both, and she knew she was probably on her deathbed.

Dorothea was also sickly, weak, and delirious. But every time she would look over to her sister, she knew that she was going to die, and after Claire, she would die next. She knew Claire was too weak to try and escape, so Dorothea used every ounce of energy that she had to try to escape for her and get help. It took so much effort just to get herself out of bed and onto the floor. Dorothea couldn’t walk, and she couldn’t even stand up. Refusing to give up, she began to crawl towards the door. She made it decently far in such a terrible condition, but sadly she was found trying to escape by Linda, and was taken back to her bed.

On April 30th, there was a letter sent to Margaret Conway, the sisters' childhood nanny. The letter told her something serious had happened, and were requesting her visit to Olalla. At the time, Margaret was visiting family in Sydney, Australia, and was able to come to Washington about a week after receiving the letter. Linda’s husband met Margaret at the bus station and on their way back he delivered terrible news. Claire had passed away. Once Margaret was able to see Claire’s body, she knew something had been wrong. She said it looked like a totally different person, and she was so, so, skinny. Linda told her that she had died from cirrhosis of the liver, and it was caused by drugs that were given to her as a child, causing her organs to shrink. Margaret didn’t believe a word that she was saying and demanded that she was taking Dorothea back home to her parents. Dorothea was now between 50 and 60 pounds, and explained that she looked like a skeleton, laying in a bed inside of a cabin. However, the Hazzard’s told her that she could not take Dorthea, as they were given power of attorney and were not releasing her from their care. Margaret also saw Linda walking around in Claire’s satin robe and wearing her favorite hat. The Hazzard’s also helped themselves to the rest of her clothes, household items, and at least $6,000 worth of jewels from their family. Margaret snuck out to call the girl's uncle, John Herbet, who came all the way from Portland, Oregon, to save Dorothea from Linda’s crutches. John paid the Hazzard’s around a thousand dollars in order to take Dorothea away from the sanitarium.

FINALLY, JUSTICE IS SERVED… OR SO WE THOUGHT

While Margaret and John helped the police investigate, they soon gathered evidence of many more deaths under the care of Linda Hazzard, and also realized they had been given access to other estates as well. Linda was arrested on August 15th, 1911, and was being charged with first degree manslaughter for the death of Claire Williamson. The following January, her trial began, and Linda told the court that she had done nothing wrong, and the only reason she is being charged right now is due to the fact that she was a woman who’s successful in the medical field, claiming that traditional doctors hated her for her success with natural healing. Linda desperately wanted to take the stand so she could put everyone in their place, but her lawyers were smart and made sure they kept her off the stand. Linda had many people testifying against her, such as nurses and servants who worked under her. They would testify about the harsh treatments she forced upon her patients. Starving them, beating them, and the cries of pain that Claire would scream during the hours of enemas she endured. But she continued to refuse any blame in the death of Claire, or any of her patients at all, as she truly believed in the power of natural healing, and encouraged the jury to read her work, so they could see the beautiful magic she was performing for her patients. However, the jury continued to be against her. Linda had very few people defending her, but her last ditch attempt to keep her out of prison was the husband of her first victim, Daisy. He claimed that even though his wife died under her care, he strongly believed in the work of natural healing, and continued to take his own son, Ivar, to see her a few times after the passing of his wife. However, the jury still remained unmoved. It didn’t take the jury long to find Linda guilty, and she was sentenced to 2-20 years of hard labor at the penitentiary in Walla Walla, and she also had her medical license revoked. However, for reasons unknown, the governor pardoned her sentence just after serving two years. Her medical license remained permanently revoked. Her sentence wasn’t long enough for the amount of lives she has taken. It wasn’t long enough for even just the one death of Claire.

After her release, she and her husband moved to New Zealand so they could be closer to most of their supporters. There she was able to work under the titles: Physician, Dietitian, and Osteopath. She even managed to publish another book based on the powers of fasting. In 1920, the Hazzard’s were able to save enough money to move back to Ohalla and open up a new and improved sanitarium. However, due to her medical license being revoked in the state of Washington, she called her new building a “school of health.” Linda’s sanitarium burned down in 1935, which gave her 15 years to continue starving her patients and killing them. Linda Hazzard died three years later, while doing her own fasting cure to help her feel better when she was suffering from illnesses.

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