The Casual Coven

End of the Year Soirée

This one’s just for us, Covenettes.

No learning this time; just celebrating and marking the final turn of the wheel for 2024. We will share, celebrate, and craft wish pinecones for you to burn on New Year’s Eve.

And we will feast! Courtesy of the Collective, we will offer a Viking style feast table. And we are asking you to contribute one simple piece - a stone soup offering . Bring a cup of one simple ingredient for our soup. Research what vitamins and nutrients your ingredient offers us. Research any folk magic associated with your ingredient. (Feel free to email, text or message me in the group FB chat for me to keep a running list of ingredients claimed) We will each drop our ingredients in the cauldron and let it simmer during the event, then enjoy it together at the end!

The Fable of Stone Soup

Some travelers come to a village, carrying nothing more than an empty cooking pot. Upon their arrival, the villagers are unwilling to share any of their food stores with the very hungry travelers. Then the travelers go to a stream and fill the pot with water, drop a large stone in it, and place it over a fire. One of the villagers becomes curious and asks what they are doing. The travelers answer that they are making "stone soup", which tastes wonderful and which they would be delighted to share with the villager, although it still needs a little bit of garnish, which they are missing, to improve the flavor.

The villager, who anticipates enjoying a share of the soup, does not mind parting with a few carrots, so these are added to the soup. Another villager walks by, inquiring about the pot, and the travelers again mention their stone soup which has not yet reached its full potential. More and more villagers walk by, each adding another ingredient, like potatoes, onions, cabbages, peas, celery, tomatoes, sweetcorn, meat(like chicken, pork and beef), milk, butter, salt and pepper. Finally, the stone (being inedible) is removed from the pot, and a delicious and nourishing pot of soup is enjoyed by travelers and villagers alike. Although the travelers have thus tricked the villagers into sharing their food with them, they have successfully transformed it into a tasty meal which they share with the donors.

Future Dates: TBD