The Skriker Actor Packet

The Origins of the Skriker...
While Churchill says that the Skriker comes from the “Lancashire term for ‘a
shrieker, a screamer,’” she may also have her origin in several other myths and
creatures !Wolf". In some parts of Britain, the name Skriker is also synonymous with
the Black Dog ## an omen of imminent death !see BLACK DOG in the Glossary of
Folktale Creatures". The origin of the Skriker may also come from the folkloric and
pagan belief in the Crone, the final embodiment of the Triple Goddess !the Maiden,
the Mother, and the Crone".
The Myth of the Cron!
The Crone aspect is the most frightening to many, for the
Crone represents death and dissolution. There is no way
that death can be avoided, for all things have a life cycle.
At the end of that cycle, things being to malfunction and
decay. We see this is in everything: humans, plants,
animals, stars, comets, and universes. But the Crone is not
the end, for everything is recycled; nothing is wasted.
Forms are changed and reformed into something
else” !Conway 6".
“The first face of the Goddess, the Maiden
aspect, is the youthfulness and anticipation of
life, the matrix of creation which will, when the
time is ripe, produce. Whether this will be in the
physical, material, mental, or spiritual depends on
the directed will of the matrix.
The Mother aspect is the culmination of the
matrix set in motion to create. It is the physical
desire, mental will, and spiritual love that go
together to create endlessly on many levels. The
mental will sets the matrix in motion; the
physical desire creates its form; the spiritual love
sustains it.