Kissing the Hag
Author/Artist
Emma Restall Orr
Reviewer
Autumn Song
Publisher
O Books
Price (GBP)
£11.99
Subject
General Druidry
Type
Non-Fiction Book
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Review
Kissing the Hag is Emma Restall Orr’s (Bobcat) latest and best piece of work to date. Written in her very distinctive voice, this is her tale,
your tale, every woman’s tale. It explores the dark goddess energy within all women, which Emma poignantly calls The Hag. This female energy is the dark energy of spirit that will not compromise. It can be the unacceptable in today’s society, it can be raw, visceral, frightening. It is wholly inspiring.
The exploration of The Hag is mainly divided into what can be seen as the seven sections of a woman’s life – The Blood, The Virgin, The Whore, The Mother, The Bitch, The Witch and The Old Bag. Each is an enlightening (or endarkening) portrayal of an aspect of the The Hag that lies within. Readers will empathise with the words scattered across the pages, with the anecdotes – both the author’s own and that of the women she encountered. Men who read this work will perhaps come to know or understand (a little) the women in their lives in a different way.
This book was one I simply could not put down. It opened me up to my own Hag energy, enticing me to explore it in my own way. Something has loosened within, freed up the shackles that held her back, showing that it is okay to let her out, with honour and respect. To recognise the Hag is to recognise a very deep and important part of human nature, which today’s society all too often rejects out of fear, loathing or misunderstanding.
Emma’s writing is, as always, clear, honest and precise. She writes from the heart, but argues her points eloquently with an intelligence that is wholly appreciated, coming from a point of view that is anything but dry academia. Everything about this book is enticing – the title, the chapters, even the front cover. It beckons you to explore the dark goddess within human nature, asking you to come closer, closer, finally embracing but never submitting to the potent, life affirming force of The Hag.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kissing-Hag-Goddess-Unacceptable-Nature/dp/18469...your tale, every woman’s tale. It explores the dark goddess energy within all women, which Emma poignantly calls The Hag. This female energy is the dark energy of spirit that will not compromise. It can be the unacceptable in today’s society, it can be raw, visceral, frightening. It is wholly inspiring.
The exploration of The Hag is mainly divided into what can be seen as the seven sections of a woman’s life – The Blood, The Virgin, The Whore, The Mother, The Bitch, The Witch and The Old Bag. Each is an enlightening (or endarkening) portrayal of an aspect of the The Hag that lies within. Readers will empathise with the words scattered across the pages, with the anecdotes – both the author’s own and that of the women she encountered. Men who read this work will perhaps come to know or understand (a little) the women in their lives in a different way.
This book was one I simply could not put down. It opened me up to my own Hag energy, enticing me to explore it in my own way. Something has loosened within, freed up the shackles that held her back, showing that it is okay to let her out, with honour and respect. To recognise the Hag is to recognise a very deep and important part of human nature, which today’s society all too often rejects out of fear, loathing or misunderstanding.
Emma’s writing is, as always, clear, honest and precise. She writes from the heart, but argues her points eloquently with an intelligence that is wholly appreciated, coming from a point of view that is anything but dry academia. Everything about this book is enticing – the title, the chapters, even the front cover. It beckons you to explore the dark goddess within human nature, asking you to come closer, closer, finally embracing but never submitting to the potent, life affirming force of The Hag.