Wights, fairy rings, and trespass narratives
Wights, fairy rings, and trespass narratives
In older Germanic and English folklore, “wights” serves as a broad term—Old English wiht simply meant “being” or “creature,” because the base word is "life" from "vi/ve/fe/wi, etc." as occurs in the word vital as an example, and it could refer to anything from land-spirits to any kind of ambiguous otherworldly presences tied to specific places.
It is also this base sense why Vé may be applied in the sense of a place of power, like a reservoir that this force or presence is amplified and considered a natural gathering place of wights, or for lack of betters words in a more general sense, spirits, including ghosts of relatives. A lot will have to be unpacked here to understand the significance of all this.
The Concept of Sacred Spaces
Ancient customs often including constructing a structure called a Hof at such a Vé, which itself…
