The Ballad of Tam Lin Legends of the Divine Feminine Book 1 eBook Kathleen McGowan
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I forbid you maidens all
who wear gold in your hair
to travel to Carterhaugh
for young Tam Lin is there
Scotland, 1323
When 18-year-old Janet Douglas is given Carterhaugh Forest and its surrounding property as a gift from her father, she is thrilled to become the guardian of such an ancient and sacred place. But Janet soon finds that she has an otherworldly rival for her role as protector of Carterhaugh. An elfin knight by the strange name of Tam Lin haunts her forest, and extracts a heavy price from any unwary maiden who might wander there and cut the legendary roses. After her best friend returns from a terrifying encounter with Tam Lin, brave Janet sets out to confront the mysterious and malevolent knight. She cuts the sacred roses to goad him into appearing, but soon finds herself ensnared by the laws of the fairy kingdom. Her transgression is such that Tam Lin demands the ultimate penalty from a noble maiden her virginity.
As Janet prepares for her fate, she discovers that there is a darker force behind Tam Lin’s actions he is in service to the ruthless and omnipotent Fairy Queen, who demands a severe price of her own. It is told that every seven years she is required to pay a tithe to Hell, a human sacrifice, and the seventh year anniversary is rapidly approaching. In order to save everything she holds dear, Janet will have to go to battle with the spellbinding and terrifying queen on Halloween night. Tam Lin prepares her for the ordeal – but can he be trusted?
The trials Janet endures at the hands of the Fairy Queen are rich in symbolism and steeped in the wisdom of the Celts. For this is no mere fairy tale, no simplistic story of dark and light, wicked queen and maiden fair. This is a complex and sensual exploration of feminine power in all of its aspects, with some unexpected twists.
The Ballad of Tam Lin is a novella based on an ancient folksong from the Scottish Borders. It is the first in Kathleen McGowan’s series, Legends of the Divine Feminine. A non-fiction analysis of the ballad, its origins, and its exquisite preservation of ancient wisdom teachings follows the fiction along with the author’s notes on her years of research into the story and locations.
The Ballad of Tam Lin is a profound spiritual and esoteric fable, an illustration of the power of the divine feminine in its multiple guises unlike any other.
The Ballad of Tam Lin Legends of the Divine Feminine Book 1 eBook Kathleen McGowan
Story is fine but who proofread this? A horse is guided by reins. Kings and queens reign. Every time the author referred to the horse’s “reigns”, I cringed. Very unprofessional and not what I would expect from an author of Ms McGowan’s caliber.Product details
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The Ballad of Tam Lin Legends of the Divine Feminine Book 1 eBook Kathleen McGowan Reviews
Fantastic insight again from the inspirational Kathleen McGowan. This time we get introduced to fairy legend. A surprise in this book was her telling of the Ballad ended at 60% of the book and the rest was history and how she put the story together, which was just a enthralling as the rest of the book. Love it and hope we get to see more in this series.
I have to say that I love everything Kathleen has written so far. I am waiting anxiously for the release of her next novel about Anne Boleyn in the Divine Feminine Series.Can't wait to see what secrets she has discovered.
Wow, another beautifully written story by Kathleen McGowan. I took my kindle with me for a get away weekend in the mountains to enjoy the fall. As beautiful as it was to hike the Colorado Rockies I enjoyed every moment I could reading "The Ballad of Tam Lin" until I finished it. The leading ladies, Janet, Millicent, and Elphamae are true heroines and archetypes every young girl or grand elder would be honored to embody.
Kathleen McGowan has an amazing ability to weave in his-story and her-story with Scottish folklore into a magical story. The powerful surprises will keep you turning the pages.
I really like Kathleen McGowan has wrote, and evoured all her works in a short period of time. This book was by far my favorite.
The Ballad of Tam Lin is a powerful love story. The author Kathleen McGowan shows her connection to her ancient story teller ancestors. She brings up many thought provoking scenes that leave the reader wanting more. I highly recommend this book and other books written by this author. She doesn't add fluff, she has done the research to make her books well worth the time to read them. When you finish you have enjoyed the story while getting a history lesson at the same time. Kudos Kathleen.
I thought the book was a fun quick read. I love Kathleen McGowan's books and this one was no exception. I do like to read longer books though but for a quick read before going to sleep this one was great. The story is not new and tells of a woman's love enduring the test of time and adversity. She must hold on to him no matter what challenges she faces for an entire night or lose him forever. I recommend the book and hope Kathleen McGowan writes many more like it.
If you liked well known THE MISTS OF AVALON, you may like this version of Ballad of Tam Lin written from also from female perspective. (Mists were recommended as I am not fan of this genre). McGowan shows her talent in story telling, I hope she continues with this type of writing, maybe even a bigger novel the scope of mentioned MoA, for example?
This work is rather short, my reader indicated 62% of the story was the Tam Lin story retold, the reminder was Kathleen McGowan's retelling about her personal research.But I don't mind a shorter story if is well done.The story retold doesn't follow exactly the version which author inserted in this ebook. Which is good, it makes the story more surprising. It is an excellent read, for example in a weekend afternoon at front of the fire place, nice and cozy. Female characters are more likeable than those in the MoA.
The second part of the ebook is about McGowan research and her writing process.She tells about time she spend in Ireland and like before (Mary Magdalene's case), she says the research took over twenty years and while she was collecting stories in Ireland she was given privileged secret information. McGowan also relates this story to the persecuted heretics. One part has inserted ballad, the version which served as the matrix, this got interpreted by the author. Not a bad idea, but some parts are just paraphrasing what the ballad said, just in McGowan's own words. The interpretation follows theories of Graves (triple archetypes of Maiden, Mother and Crone) which are sure to please Neo-Pagans, those who like Jungian psychology, literary criticism, specially of the type using Jungian theories, those of interest in second-wave feminism as this triad is strongly explored here.
The part after the story I didn't like as much, almost gave four stars because of this.Some ideas raised my curiosity McGowan mentions the ballad is considered a cautionary tale type in folklorists' opinions.Those tales were common in Europe for long time, even for example Pinokio is one of those.Also in particular the life on Scottish borders was very dangerous. Lots of violence, also against women.Sure, it is not an academic paper where writer explains, justifies the reason against theories which were explored and well explained by others. An author of this type of publication as this one has the right to say as she did "I don't believe it is a cautionary tale" without explanation. No problem. But I would know more, why the cautionary tale should exclude other interpretations, as things coexisted on various levels, had multi-layered levels of meaning.Just curious, not a real complaint. Non-folklorist's question were not eternal Fairy Queens and Fairy Good Mothers also representations of the Crone in spite of looking young? I am curious.
Author's tale about her visionary experience is interesting. No one is forced to agree with her claim that she indeed saw fairies. Or that fairies show themselves to a person as a way of honoring her/him. However, interesting to read about it human perception is a very fascinating thing after all.
There is some kind of confusion about the name of one character, Millicent. Beautiful name, a Victorian times favorite. McGowan clusters it with Melusine, and it does makes sense in the story.But the name Millicent doesn't come from Melusine,as author claims.I don't blame McGowan on a French site about baby names someone(magicmaman) clustered Millicent and Melusine, probably because of perceived similarities.The name is very rare in France, and the version remains on page uncorrected. This deserves more explanation. Millicent means "powerful, mighty, strong, brave, powerful work." It comes from Old Germanic name Amalasintha, based on two words amal which means work, swind means powerful,strong, brave, mighty. The linguistic changes the name later was written as Malasintha, latinized version Milesindis, Milesendis turned into Milisenda, then into Melisande and Melisenda,in Old French morphed into Melisent, Milisant, Milesent, later on spelling Milicent became popular, and came to Britain with Normans.There were two reigning queens of this name. Amalasuntha (Amalasuintha and other spellings) the queen of Ostrogoths.If you are interested in Ann Bolyen, Marie Antoinette, etc. I recommend her life story too. The other one was Queen Melisande, the daughter of Baldwin II of Jersualem.Why an author who claims that she spend 20 years researching the subject didn't research the name of her main character?
I am looking forward to read more of McGowans legends series, but more for stories than lots of research account. I am sure they will be well narrated and told from a female perspective. I recommend this one, enjoy!
Story is fine but who proofread this? A horse is guided by reins. Kings and queens reign. Every time the author referred to the horse’s “reigns”, I cringed. Very unprofessional and not what I would expect from an author of Ms McGowan’s caliber.
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