#nimuë

[themonstrousother]

I would do anything to know what Morgan Le Fay and The Lady of the Lake thought about each other and if they interacted

[luckyluckyjesse]

🗡Nimuë lady of the lake👑

[songoftheswallowtails]

Nimuë: Are you mad? Juniper: No. Nimuë: So sharpening your knives at 3 in the morning is just a hobby?

[abrabloodycadabra]

"Excalibur was given to Arthur by the Lady of the Lake".

Redrawing of the old drawing from 2016, see it here.

See also: Morgana Pendragon.

[theladymorganlefay]

Nimuë's Petals

This is a spell to bless any new project or Endeavour and clear away any obstacles to success by invoking Nimuë, the faerie goddess of wild innocence and joy.

Materials:

Six white roses

A vase

A white candle and holder

A piece of candy

At the time of the new moon, or later in the evening in the cloak of darkness, take three white roses to a three-way crossroads and reverently tear their petals from the blooms, casting them before you to each road and saying:

As petals tossed upon the wind

Innocent, the winsome heart

Shall bless the paths before me now

An open road, a fresh new start

Speak the faerie goddess's name aloud three times to each road.

Nimuë! Nimuë! Nimuë!

Return home. Light a white candle before a vase of three white roses and place a piece of candy before it all as an offering.

Allow the candle to burn down safely.

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Found in Llewellyn's Witches Spell-a-Day Almanac

[themonstrousother]

Lady of the Lake: You know what would cheer up my son who I kidnapped as an infant and raised under a lake after the death of his gay lover? Telling him to bury him in the same tomb he was told he would be buried one day and letting them know they would remain there together forever

And it worked

[songoftheswallowtails]

Nimuë: Seriously, Fright, how many people would you have killed if we’d asked you to? Fright: That’s not important Nimuë: I DISAGREE.

[themonstrousother]

The helpful fairy mentioned by Chrétien has now become the Lady of the Lake. Named Niniane, or Viviane, she has a prior history connected with that of Merlin, who attempted to seduce her. Knowing that Merlin’s father was a devil, she only pretended to accept him, trading illusory favors for his knowledge of sorcery. In the end, she has learned enough to confine the magician in an invisible tomb from which he will never emerge. Among the gifts she has learned from Merlin is an ability to foretell the future.

Thus it can be assumed that when the Lady of the Lake carries off the infant Lancelot, to raise him in her magical kingdom concealed by the semblance of a lake, she does so as an agent of his fate. He grows up believing her to be his mother, and even after he has apparently been released from her influence and fallen in love with the queen, the Lady of the Lake still shapes his life. In times of danger she sends him magical weapons, she heals him when a fit of madness has brought him close to death, and she encourages Guenevere in her illicit love. She is not deterred by her foreknowledge that that love will ultimately destroy the Arthurian kingdom. On the contrary, it would seem that she has extended her hatred of Merlin to include his protégé King Arthur, born thanks to Merlin’s sorcery. In our retelling of the story, the final gesture of her own magic is to slip Excalibur, which has been Arthur’s sword, into Lancelot’s tomb.

Lancelot and the Lord of the Distant Isles, Patricia Terry