[gothic-l] Hungarian tale of haliorunnae?

[Tim O'Neill]

I'd be slightly sceptical about this one Dirk.
While the folktale, or aspects of it, may be
genuine, 'Z Budapest' is not a very reliable
source.  She is (I'm assuming she's still
around) a feminist wiccan based in L.A. and,
like many in the New Age movement, has a
tendency to pick bits and pieces of legends
and traditions and put them together in
interesting though often completely unlikely
combinations.

She claims to be one of a long line of peasant
healers/witches from Hungary, but she also
claims this tradition has its origins in Sumer.
Go figure.  I'd verify it from some other more
reliable source if I were you.
Cheers,

Tim O'Neill

-----Original Message-----
From: dirk at smra.co.uk [mailto:dirk at smra.co.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, 7 August 2001 21:59
To: gothic-l at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [gothic-l] Hungarian tale of haliorunnae?


I found this text on the following web-site:

http://www.suppressedhistories.net/secret_history/kings_witches.html

Does anybody know if this is based on really Hungarian traditional
folk-tales? or has the author Arany Janos, taken these 'aliorunna'
witches from the Getica?

Here is the text:

"Hungarian tradition preserved its own version of the Gothic
rune-women,conflated with medieval faery-mistress themes. A
19th-century poem, "The Stag" by Arany János, gives its outlines. The
beautiful chieftainess Ened had two sons, Hunor and Magwor. They
hunted a stag which got them lost in the forest. There they saw the
aliorunna dancing, feasting and doing magic. The brothers abducted
these faeries, who held aloof for a time, but finally reconciled with
them.

They became the ancestors of the Huns. After a time, the group that
became the Magyars separated from the others in their wanderings. The
legacy of the priestess-ancestors was that magic and beauty would pass
down through the female line, but the boys would be stocky and
bowlegged. Tradition assured Hungarian girls that because they were
descended from these faeries, theyinherited a certain superiority over
the boys. [Z Budapest, personal communication, 10/6/95] "


cheers,

Dirk



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