Amalia Fonfara - Animist artist & Shamanic practitioner

21/04/2026

These days I am enjoying the soft spring. I am laying in the new grass feeling the earth, smelling the sweet scent of newly sprouted poplar trees, feeling the warm sun on my skin, listening to the birds and the small creek behind our house, whispering about all that is to come🙏✨💚

20/04/2026

De underjordiske 🙏💚

Animisme i det 21. århundrede: ’DE UNDERJORDISKE’ HUSERER STADIG PÅ BORNHOLM. I 2014 afstedkom det et ramaskrig, da antropologen Lars Rømer fik midler fra Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond til at forske i betydningen af Bornholms ikke-menneskelige beboere 'De Underjordiske'. Bl.a. Venstres Esben Lunde var stærkt forarget, og det blev nedgjort som "Krølle Bølle-forskning", at han fik 2,5 mio kr. til at undersøge naturvæsnernes betydning i bornholmsk kulturhistorie frem til i dag, men det standsede heldigvis ikke Rømer. Forskningen har for længst gået sin gang, og det viser sig, at De Underjordiske stadig lever et sted i en del bornholmeres bevidsthed og oplevelser.

Det bornholmske landskab er fortsat fuld af fortællinger, der for nogle er knyttet til disse væsner, men der er også flere, som har også berettet om deres egne oplevelser af De Underjordiske. En kvinde i 70’erne fra Poulsker Sogn husker f.eks. tydeligt, at hun som 12-14-årig så De Underjordiske marchere forbi med røde huer på.

En mand fra Hasle drømte, at en af De Underjordiske tog ham i hånden og viste ham, hvor der lå en økse nedgravet på hans mark. Dagen efter gik han ud og fandt en ret sjælden stenalderøksen, der nu findes på Bornholms Museum.

En tredje har haft en oplevelse i Paradisbakkerne, hvor et lille rødt væsen kravlede op på en brændestab. Det gav personen en følelse af, at der var noget magisk på færde og skabte en tættere forbindelse til naturen.

En fjerde var en ung kvinde, der som barn var oppe på Hammeren og kiggede ned i en lille hule, hvor hun så et lille væsen med en grøn hue lavet af blade med et lille rødt bånd omkring og med en dragt af blade.

Flere har set De Underjordiske marchere og spille musik i naturen.
Ganske som tusindvis af historiske beretninger, indsamlet af danske folkemindesamlere i 1800-tallet. Alene fra Bornholm er der f.eks. indsamlet ca. 1.200-1.500 folkesagn.

"De er naturvæsner, og mennesker oplever dem, når de befinder sig i en interaktion med naturen,« fortæller Lars Rømer, og tilføjer: "Mange af de ældre fortællinger handler om bønder, der får besøg af de underjordiske, efter de har gjort vold på naturen eller pløjet på de gravhøje, hvor de underjordiske bor."

De Underjordiske er ofte på banen under konflikter mellem naturen og mennesket - og det er gennemgående, at de har en beskytterrolle i forhold til landskabet, påpeger Rømer.

• Rune Engelbreth Larsen. Læs meget mere om folklorens persongalleri i min kommende bog, ’Mennesker og andre personer': https://alteria.dk/personer/

Læs mere om Lars Rømers forskning online:
• De Underjordiske i bornholmernes underbevidsthed:
https://jyllands-posten.dk/nyviden/ECE11562777/forsker-underjordiske-vaesener-findes-stadig-i-bornholmeres-bevidsthed/
• Krølle-Bølle-forskning er vigtig:
https://videnskab.dk/kultur-samfund/forskere-kroelle-boelle-forskning-er-faktisk-vigtig/
• De Underjordiske beskytter naturen
https://www.tv2bornholm.dk/artikel/de-underjordiske-beskytter-naturen

09/04/2026

I went with my little Starlight to prepare the course, The Path of Seidr I am teaching for a group of people coming in from the US.
They asked me a few years ago, if I would help them to connect with their ancestral traditions here in Norway.

For many people of Northern European descent we look for the roots in our ancient magic traditions.

I feel it is so important to remember that we have not lost our connection, it lives within us, it lives in the land, the water and in our history. But it takes time and patience to bring the memories and living knowledge back. It takes time to build and reimagine our sacred songs and the names of all the beings of the land.
And even then we may not know if this was the songs and prayers our ancestors passed on to the next generation.

We can morn and be saddened about this, but we can also trust that what we rebuild and create from our time in the world today is equally important and equally true, as it was 2000 years ago.

Because we are here today. We are all indigenous to nature and will always be 🤍
May we always remember this 🙏

I can’t wait to stand i the circle again singing to the spirits, the land together with my community, and connecting to the ancient wisdom of The Vólves that has gone before us 🔥

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06/04/2026

If you would like to make your own drum and rattle, I have a dayworkshop in a few weeks this April. If you want to join remember to book your place before April 10th. ✨🐍🥁🪶

Send me a DM or comment "Drum" for more info ✨

06/04/2026

Sitting here working, enjoying the quietness and contemplating on all what transpired yesterday during Årshjulet online course. 🐣🌱🌸🌀

I feel very humble and grateful to be able to learn together with our ancestors and the spirit world in our human community 🙏

Thank you to all seen and unseen forces and beings who were with us 🤍

03/04/2026

The power of spring is strong. 🌱

When I was wisiting my dear sister .johansen at spring equinox we went to an old being on the land, asking for help to melt what was frozen and washing away stuck energy. Opening ourselves for the new cycle 🌀

When we align ourselves with the much greater forces in nature and in the big wheel of life, we can find balance and create change within ourselves, so we trust the flow of life. 🙏

24/03/2026

Velkommen til trommereise under Blomstermånen d. 1. mai. ✨🌸🌕🌸✨

Mens månen vandrer over himmelbuen, vandrer vi på vår vakre jord. Årshjulet snurrer, og vi står ved inngangen til sommeren under fullmånen.

Fullmånen i mai – også kalt “Blomsterfullmånen” – bringer fornyelse, vekst og håp. Det er et godt tidspunkt å jobbe med denne kraften for å få klarhet og bekreftelse i viktige aspekter av livet ditt. Det kan være tid for å se på målene dine, fornye og bekrefte løftene og forpliktelsen til det du ønsker å fylle livet ditt med.

Blir du med på trommereise på d. 1.Mai ? Skriv “blomstermåne” hvis du ønsker mer info 🌺🌼🌸🪻🌕

16/03/2026

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"I tend to the soil as if I am tending to my ancestors. As if I am tending to my children. As if I am tending to my future grandchildren.
Because I am. The soil is made of what has died. The soil will grow the life/food for who comes next."

~ MaryBeth Bonfiglio
MaryBeth Bonfiglio. Writer.
www.marybethbonfiglio.com

Art: Tarn Ellis
Tarn Ellis

12/03/2026

Some years ago I was in the small village Nanortalik where I was born in Kalaallit Nunaat. I was there doing a project for youth and kids with at their wonderful summer camp.
One evening I was asked if I wanted to offer a ceremony for the children and their families.

Stepping out and being visible in the place I was born and that I for years struggled to reconcile with my connection to as a danish Greenlander, was difficult.

So when I prepared for the ceremony in a drum journey I asked my spirits and the land for help and permission to do the ceremony. And I was brought to tears as women and men came to me in the national dress, taking my hands, smiling at me, hugging me, and welcoming me home.

Denying ourselves to be the person we are will make us sick, because identity is something we are naturally. We do not have to understand it, we just have to allow ourselves to be what and who we are.

The ceremony became a ceremony from my heart - a song of love and gratitude for this place, and all beings and forces seen and unseen on this land, that I feel so at home with, and holds such a deep love for🤍🇬🇱❤️

I am thinking about something my spirits told me many years after that I feel I need to remember more often in these times of conflict;
“It is not about the differences, it is all about the love.”