Becoming a Crone

A bit harsh MOnica, but I have to agree with you. Wisdom does not come with age, it comes with experience of life and what you have done with it.

Oh well, I expect it rained on you anyway.

sorry Eglantine

Eglantine I was on holiday in Cornwall (home was sunny Devon )

Jalima. Damn, damn.

Jail a got Cornish lanes to wander down. I had to make do with Putney high street!

Here in Wiltshire we have a Crone of Avebury who is equivalent I think to the status of our local Druid!

I’m 69, so am preparing to take up the position of Crone quite shortly.
I’m off to CronesRUs for a hairdo, mani/pedi and a spray tan, then new clothes, shoes, makeup etc.
We crones are about as sexy as it gets, so look out gents!

As long as it's considered a pejorative term, I will reject the appellation 'crone'. However, when my sister and I were addressed by a NZ Maori bus driver as 'elder ladies', I rather liked being an 'elder' although not in the ecclesiastical sense.

I would be happy to be a crone, the wise bit troubles me ?

I am told their is quite a large Druid community here in Melton Mowbray - who'd a thunk it?

Violette, there is always scope for a new religion, I am prepared to join yours. Where do I sign up?

Ha ha ! I love it ...always thought I was a bit of an old crone ....love the hippy aspect ...now where can I find a Druid commune to join ??? ..I once looked up communes to live in ,,but they required someone who could DIG and plant veggies, whereas I was rather hoping to join one where they just let me lie on a chaise loungue all day and feed me with grapes .....and put a few fresh flowers in my hair now and then .....or am I expecting too much >> better get out the besom ....

I'm not old enough to be considered a crone, yet, and I'm already far too fat. My face is quite haggared though. (My predictive text wanted to write that is is 'hammered', which also sounds a fair description)

I am a witch, I've just turned 73 and I am a crone, it means one who is wise. I am proud to be both, being a crone is an honour, although I could do without the arthritis.

Ah, but that would preclude men from joining and we need some of them

A new name - Cronesnet?

It has to be fresh flowers radicalnan or else it's cheating!
I remember wandering along Cornish lanes, picking flowers for my hair and singing 'If You're Going to San Francisco' in the 1960s.

If I did that now I'm a Crone I could be arrested.

Just looked up crone in my online dictionary . It says an old woman who is thin and ugly!!

And a hag is a witch, especially as one in the form of an ugly old woman.

Also short for hagfish.

Oh well! At least I am not thin! Or a fish.

The druids must have adopted it at some time as it appears in 1390 .
Lots of stuff about the word on Wiki, but I really liked this
In Cuban traditional folklore old women often appear as helpful characters, as in the tale of the sick man who can't get well until he meets an old woman who advises him to wear the tunic of a man who is truly happy. According to writer Alma Flor Ada, "They tend to be the ones who keep the family together, who pass on the traditions, who know the remedies that would cure the different illnesses".
I'll be that sort of crone

Another example of how a word describing women gets twisted into a term of abuse. Shakespeare has a lot to answer for in that respect.
Let’s reclaim the word crone to it’s true meaning!

Oo, Radicalnan, you put that so well! I feel a bit mean thinking that way. After all, they're only doing what makes them happy, but ...

I'll happily be a Crone! (77)

Ah but which one Mary?

Glastonbury is full of old women dressed like rainbows becoming crones....................seems to me like a bit of attention seeking, if they think they are wiser and closer to nature because they are done up like dog's dinners in hippy clothes made in sweat shops with silk f lowers in their hair made by child labour, then they are not at all wise.

All part of the Wiccan buy yoursel into wisdom culture which I have very little time for.