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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 7312690" data-attributes="member: 58172"><p>Reallife Elf archetypes are first and foremost Charisma. This Charisma associates with sexuality, allure, and beauty, persuasiveness and charm, fate and magic, prestige and glamor, and so on. There is also a kind of ghostlike spookiness.</p><p></p><p>Early Modern Scotland preserves earlier shamanic traditions about the ‘Sith’ Elf as an erotic spirit during magical dreams. Ballads, such as the Elven Knight, picture such an elven encounter. Here the Elf spirit falls in love with a Human. He manifests from the spirit world to have sex with her. While using his magic to charm her, he also blows a magical hunting horn. The wind from this horn stirs up winds around them to blow off all of her clothing. Thus he attempts to seduce her while the two are nude.</p><p></p><p><em>The elphin knight sits on yon hill.</em></p><p><em>Blaw, blaw, blaw, wind blaw.</em></p><p><em>He blaws his horn both lewd and shril.</em></p><p><em>The wind hath blown my plaid awa.</em></p><p></p><p>The Elf is ‘enchanting’, both persuasive and inherently magical.</p><p></p><p>In the context of his charming magic, he requires her to perform an ‘impossible task’. This is an early example of the literary tradition of impossible tasks. A recent example is the American version of the song, Scarborough Fair, by Simon and Garfunkel. <em>Tell her to make me a cambric shirt without any seem or needlework</em>. This tradition reaches back into early times, associating with the Scottish Elf. The idea is, if the target of the charm agrees to the condition of fulfilling an impossible task in order to become free, then the binding magic becomes impossibly strong − and impossible to escape from.</p><p></p><p>There are examples of impossible tasks in Old Norse traditions. For example, the cord that is used to bind the doomsday wolf Fenrir, is made in part out of the beard of women and the noise of cat footsteps. Creating the cord out of unlikely things makes it unlikely for Fenris to escape from, once Fenrir accepts it.</p><p></p><p>In the ballad of the Elfin Knight, there are several versions. In one version, the Elfin Knight seeks to captivate the Human with charm magic, to bring her into the Elven spirit realm to be with him as his lover, forever, thus her to never be seen again by Human loved ones, family and friends. In this case, he promises (by oath) to grant her freedom if she can perform the impossible task. In other words, the bond will become inescapable. But in the ballad, the Human is clever. She promises she can and will achieve the impossible task ... but only on one condition. Curious and intrigued, the Elf Knight agrees to her condition, whatever it is. She then says she will fulfill the task, but only if he will fulfill her tasks first, and then she proceeds to give him her own list of impossible tasks. The Elf Knight is bound by oaths, he cannot fulfill the conditions, and his attempt to weave an unbreakable charm fails.</p><p></p><p>In this version, the Elf is a beautiful but dangerous creature. His Charisma is strongly persuasive. As the Human realizes the disruption to Human ways of life, there is a struggle to escape his influence.</p><p></p><p>But in other versions of the same ballad, the roles are reversed. The Human loves the Elf. The Elf is <em>the bonny laddie that I luve best</em>. It is the Human who seeks to compel the Elf to remain in the Human realm forever, to become an excellent husband. In this version, the Elf appears for the extraordinary sexual encounter, and only promises to marry if she fulfills an impossible task. Then the exchange of impossible tasks binds the Elf into remaining among Humans.</p><p></p><p>The Charisma, charm, and appeal of the Elf is central to the archetype.</p><p></p><p>The ballad alludes to the Elf love of magic. This charm by the Elf only fails because of the elven curiosity about magic. The Human promises to fulfill the impossible task, thereby seems aware of some kind of magic that the Elf is currently unaware of. It is difficult for the Elf to ignore this opportunity to discover new magic. Thus the Elf is willing to risk the success of his spell to see what if anything is behind this claim.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Regarding the magical hunting horn. This is probably an ivory hunting horn, whose ivory usually comes from Asia, and carved exquisitely. This elephant tusk was often called the ‘horn’ of the ‘oliphant’. Thus what is normally a kind of hunting bugle made out of a bulls horn, is here an exotic instrument that, like silk, signifies medieval royalty. The horn of a bull might associate with fertility. The oliphant exemplifies the Elf as an aristocratic ruler.</p><p></p><p>Here is an example of an aristocratic ivory hunting horn, from the Viking settlement in York, in England.</p><p>[ATTACH]92605[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>The hunting horn is mainly a single note, and is for alarms and long distance signals, rather than music. This particular horn by a Viking aristocrat named Ulf, made this hunting horn part of the title deed to his land, so that whoever owned this horn also owned his aristocratic land. The ivory hunting horn is an aristocratic symbol that signifies power and prestige. Here literally.</p><p></p><p>The magic horn that the Elf blows signifies the aristocratic power of an elven knight. Presumably, his elven kingdom has its own faerie elephants, animistic spirits, from which the Elf obtains this magical ivory.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>D&D has the Nymph, the Succubus, and the Incubus. The Elf too is this kind of charismatic, seductive, magical, spirit.</p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>́</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 7312690, member: 58172"] Reallife Elf archetypes are first and foremost Charisma. This Charisma associates with sexuality, allure, and beauty, persuasiveness and charm, fate and magic, prestige and glamor, and so on. There is also a kind of ghostlike spookiness. Early Modern Scotland preserves earlier shamanic traditions about the ‘Sith’ Elf as an erotic spirit during magical dreams. Ballads, such as the Elven Knight, picture such an elven encounter. Here the Elf spirit falls in love with a Human. He manifests from the spirit world to have sex with her. While using his magic to charm her, he also blows a magical hunting horn. The wind from this horn stirs up winds around them to blow off all of her clothing. Thus he attempts to seduce her while the two are nude. [I]The elphin knight sits on yon hill. Blaw, blaw, blaw, wind blaw. He blaws his horn both lewd and shril. The wind hath blown my plaid awa.[/I] The Elf is ‘enchanting’, both persuasive and inherently magical. In the context of his charming magic, he requires her to perform an ‘impossible task’. This is an early example of the literary tradition of impossible tasks. A recent example is the American version of the song, Scarborough Fair, by Simon and Garfunkel. [I]Tell her to make me a cambric shirt without any seem or needlework[/I]. This tradition reaches back into early times, associating with the Scottish Elf. The idea is, if the target of the charm agrees to the condition of fulfilling an impossible task in order to become free, then the binding magic becomes impossibly strong − and impossible to escape from. There are examples of impossible tasks in Old Norse traditions. For example, the cord that is used to bind the doomsday wolf Fenrir, is made in part out of the beard of women and the noise of cat footsteps. Creating the cord out of unlikely things makes it unlikely for Fenris to escape from, once Fenrir accepts it. In the ballad of the Elfin Knight, there are several versions. In one version, the Elfin Knight seeks to captivate the Human with charm magic, to bring her into the Elven spirit realm to be with him as his lover, forever, thus her to never be seen again by Human loved ones, family and friends. In this case, he promises (by oath) to grant her freedom if she can perform the impossible task. In other words, the bond will become inescapable. But in the ballad, the Human is clever. She promises she can and will achieve the impossible task ... but only on one condition. Curious and intrigued, the Elf Knight agrees to her condition, whatever it is. She then says she will fulfill the task, but only if he will fulfill her tasks first, and then she proceeds to give him her own list of impossible tasks. The Elf Knight is bound by oaths, he cannot fulfill the conditions, and his attempt to weave an unbreakable charm fails. In this version, the Elf is a beautiful but dangerous creature. His Charisma is strongly persuasive. As the Human realizes the disruption to Human ways of life, there is a struggle to escape his influence. But in other versions of the same ballad, the roles are reversed. The Human loves the Elf. The Elf is [I]the bonny laddie that I luve best[/I]. It is the Human who seeks to compel the Elf to remain in the Human realm forever, to become an excellent husband. In this version, the Elf appears for the extraordinary sexual encounter, and only promises to marry if she fulfills an impossible task. Then the exchange of impossible tasks binds the Elf into remaining among Humans. The Charisma, charm, and appeal of the Elf is central to the archetype. The ballad alludes to the Elf love of magic. This charm by the Elf only fails because of the elven curiosity about magic. The Human promises to fulfill the impossible task, thereby seems aware of some kind of magic that the Elf is currently unaware of. It is difficult for the Elf to ignore this opportunity to discover new magic. Thus the Elf is willing to risk the success of his spell to see what if anything is behind this claim. Regarding the magical hunting horn. This is probably an ivory hunting horn, whose ivory usually comes from Asia, and carved exquisitely. This elephant tusk was often called the ‘horn’ of the ‘oliphant’. Thus what is normally a kind of hunting bugle made out of a bulls horn, is here an exotic instrument that, like silk, signifies medieval royalty. The horn of a bull might associate with fertility. The oliphant exemplifies the Elf as an aristocratic ruler. Here is an example of an aristocratic ivory hunting horn, from the Viking settlement in York, in England. [ATTACH=CONFIG]92605._xfImport[/ATTACH] The hunting horn is mainly a single note, and is for alarms and long distance signals, rather than music. This particular horn by a Viking aristocrat named Ulf, made this hunting horn part of the title deed to his land, so that whoever owned this horn also owned his aristocratic land. The ivory hunting horn is an aristocratic symbol that signifies power and prestige. Here literally. The magic horn that the Elf blows signifies the aristocratic power of an elven knight. Presumably, his elven kingdom has its own faerie elephants, animistic spirits, from which the Elf obtains this magical ivory. D&D has the Nymph, the Succubus, and the Incubus. The Elf too is this kind of charismatic, seductive, magical, spirit. ́ [/QUOTE]
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