Children Are Born Animists

by Kelley Harrell | Jul 6, 2026 | Animist Child, Essay, pillar

Animism isn’t asking us to abandon reason or return to childhood. It isn’t pretending that every coincidence carries cosmic significance. Rather, it invites us to recover relationality in the everyday.

Animist Child – Blessings for the Tooth Faerie

by Kelley Harrell | Jul 30, 2015 | Animist Child, Life Betwixt

Álfheimr the gods gave to Freyr In bygone days as tooth-payment. The Poetic Edda. Grímnismál, stanza 5, Larrington translation. There’s a saying in pagan culture, along the lines of, ‘When the first tooth is cut seek a High Priestess. When the first tooth...

Children Are Born Animists

Animist Child – Blessings for the Tooth Faerie

Whatever brought you here, this is where it continues.

Whatever brought you here, this is where it continues.