Feri Tradition
| Feri Tradition | |
|---|---|
| Family | Modern Pagan / Witchcraft |
| Origin region | United States |
| Founding period | 20th century CE |
| Estimated adherents | Unknown; generally practiced in small initiatory lineages and by related solitary practitioners. |
Feri Tradition is the Feri Tradition is a modern initiatory witchcraft tradition associated with Victor and Cora Anderson, known for ecstatic practice, poetic symbolism, magical training, and diverse deity imagery.
Overview
Feri, sometimes spelled Faery or Fairy in older contexts, is a modern witchcraft tradition distinct from British Traditional Wicca, though it may share some broader Pagan and witchcraft vocabulary. It emphasizes direct experience, personal power, sensuality, trance, energetic practice, and initiatory teaching. Lineages vary and may hold different interpretations of Feri myth and practice.
Key beliefs
- Divinity expressed through many forms, powers, and poetic images
- The sacredness of embodied experience and life force
- Personal alignment, integrity, and magical responsibility
- Initiatory transmission and teacher-student training in many lineages
- Use of mythic and ecstatic language to describe spiritual reality
Practices
- Initiatory training
- Trance and energy work
- Devotional and magical ritual
- Poetry, chant, and ecstatic practice
- Personal exercises for alignment and transformation
Places of worship
- Private ritual room
- Home altar
- Coven or teaching circle
- Outdoor ritual space
Sacred texts
- Lineage-specific teachings
- Modern Feri writings
- Poetry and ritual materials
- Personal training notes
Holidays and observances
- Seasonal Pagan festivals in some groups
- Moon rites
- Initiation anniversaries
- Lineage-specific observances
Branches and related traditions
- Traditional Witchcraft - A broad label for non-Wiccan and initiatory witchcraft traditions.
- Wicca - A related but distinct modern Pagan witchcraft religion.
- Modern Paganism - A broad family of contemporary Pagan religions.