Mark Taylor and the Nazis

Woden's Folk, the racist cult which reveres Hitler as a divine avatar, has a new logo. It claims that the logo was designed by someone called "Scyld".


Who is "Scyld"?


He is Mark Taylor, a man closely involved with the Steadfast Trust charity. He was, at one point, a trustee of the charity; when he was featured on ITV's Exposure, he was identified as being (alongside Tim Hawke) one of the people running the Steadfast Trust. I am unable to confirm whether or not he is presently involved with Steadfast following its deregistration by the charity commission.

The fact that Taylor is now designing logos for Nazis is still further evidence of just how racist the Steadfast Trust is.

Mark Taylor in the Exposure documentary on the Steadfast Trust.

Proof that "Scyld" is Mark Taylor

There is a member of the Anglo-Saxon Foundation forum called "Scyld Scefing". As you can see, he has repeatedly mentioned his involvement with the Steadfast Trust:

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As a side note, he is also a blatant racist who supports the BNP:

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More significantly, meanwhile, he gives his email address as wyrdart@butler-taylor.eclipse.co.uk:

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How does this connect to Mark Taylor? Well, Taylor is a painter, and he runs a website about his work called Wyrdart:

And he also runs a recruitment consultancy called Butler-Taylor, as can be seen at his LinkedIn page here. The page will require a LinkedIn account to view, but you will be able to see his profile image by entering "Mark Taylor Butler Taylor" into Google Images:

Just to emphasise that the Mark Taylor of Butler-Taylor is the same as the Mark Taylor of the Steadfast Trust, look at this news report from the old Steadfast website:

So, "Scyld Scefing" is involved with the Steadfast Trust (like Mark Taylor) and his email address combines the names of a website run by Mark Taylor and a company run Mark Taylor. Who can be possibly be, other than Mark Taylor?

And there's more. Here's an individual on Facebook called Scyld Scefing. Note that his main image refers to Steadfast, while his photo album contains paintings from Mark Taylor's Wyrdart:

And to take everything full circle, just look at the stylistic similarities between these three images - the new Woden's Folk logo, the avatar of the ASF member Scyld Scefing, and an image uploaded by the Facebook member Scyld Scefing:

And, for even more evidence, here are additional threads from the ASF tying Scyld Scefing to Mark Taylor/Wyrdart:

Scold Scefing promise a new poster available at Wyrdart.

A discussion about Wyrdart, where Scyld Scefing mentions having updated the website.

"I hope Sclyd doesn't mind you doing one with his mail-dressed warrior, too. Perhaps work the word 'Wyrdart' in, to give him credit?"

Woden's Folk and mental illness

Wulf Ingessunu

Woden's Folk has been a recurring topic on this blog for a while. Founded by a man who calls himself Wulf Ingessunu, the cult has a number of bizarre beliefs - such as its insistence that a line of dialogue from a 1980s TV series is an "ancient prophecy", or its claim that Hitler is a divine avatar. But exactly what is it that drove Ingessunu to these outlandish notions?

I now have a pretty good idea of the answer to that question.

Wulf has been active on his blog lately. "Woden's Folk - The Year to Come" is a typically garbled post which starts by raving about "the Coming of The Man to Come - The Avenging God" before going on to quote dialogue from the film The 13th Warrior; it is inexplicably illustrated with a 1934 Latvian propaganda poster and clipart of some wheat.
More interestingly, however, he recently posted this statement:

When I went through the Shamanic Initiation back in the spring of 1997 I was watching the TV with my family and could at one point see letters moving across the screen, letters which no-one else could see! Over and over I said that I could see 'subliminal' letters but no-one else could see them. They were very much like the above 'Occult Symbols' which are a Masonic Alphabet.

What Wulf is describing here is clearly a hallucination. The NHS has a list of more likely causes for this "shamanic" occurrence:

• taking illicit drugs or alcohol
• a mental illness such as schizophrenia or dementia
• a progressive neurological condition such as Alzheimer's disease or Parkinson's disease
• loss of vision caused by a condition such as macular degeneration – this is known as Charles Bonnet syndrome

Wulf's post abut his hallucination made it to FSTDT, where it received a very intriguing reply from an anonymous poster:

I agree with what this Grand-Master is saying, he appeals to the Englisc-Folk, and everyone who is right-thinking has seen the secret Masonic codes lurking on TV. I am a proud member of Woden's Folk, and I am not Wulf Ingessunu who is brilliant, has mystic powers and he is the avatar of Woden, thus he is Woden. His words are divine law. 

I have to deal with my friends, who have been tricked by the shadow that clouds most of the Englisc, who have not Awaked yet. They like branding me as a trans-woman in denial, how daft. Yes, I do want to be a woman, but then, doesn't everyone? 

Most men long to be women, as a result of the mind being exposed to the Dark-Forces that threaten to stop Woden's Folk, who have Awaked to their True Role in stopping the evil from growing any stronger. Also, I want to get rid of the more bigoted parts of Woden's Folk, who belong to the shadows. They disgrace Woden's Folk. 

I've tried to tell Wulf Himself not to talk to them, but he never listens. How hard can't it be for Woden Himself to spot these Occult-Nazis? This must be part of a cunning plan by Wulf who is Woden's Avatar. 

So mote it be. This is the truth. What do you think of it?

Now, we should consider the possibility that this person is a troll. If they are sincere, however, then they clearly have some sort of mental disorder. Sadly, they have fallen under the sway of Wulf Ingessunu, a man who has his own untreated issues and is in no position whatsoever to provide guidance to any similarly troubled individuals. Both people need professional help, not mystical hocus-pocus about Woden.

For more evidence of Ingessunu's mental health issues, consider this post from his Guerrilla Survivalism blog:

Water - this is a product that is today sold to us through our water-authorities; it is filthy water purified by chemicals such as chlorine, and added is fluoride which helps our teeth - we are told! It is dead-water that contains no Life-Energy because it comes through pipes and through the tap. This can only be understood when we consider how water flows in the natural world - it flows through water-courses which create movements of water and vortices which swirl one way and the other, a movement that energises the water. These water-courses are the earth's veins, arteries (rivers), and blood-vessels (steams and brooks), which carry the Earth's Blood (water) around the Earth. 

Wulf follows this gibberish with advice on how to restore "life-energy" to water:

As for tap-water, some of these 'energisers' are nothing more that methods of 'spinning' the water in a vortex-movement, using left and right spins alternatively, just as water moves along a river or stream. If this is so then the most simple way would be to fill a bottle with filtered tap-water and then spin the water round one way, emptying the bottle into a glass jug. Then the water would be put back into the bottle, spun the other way, and emptied into the jug again. The water in the bottle would empty in a spiralling vortex fashion emulating the natural flow of water. This could be done Nine Times one way and then Nine times the other way. 

Wulf's paranoia about unclean and "dead" water, and his nonsensical belief that water takes on special properties when swirled back and forth nine times, suggests obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Take a look at some of the OCD symptoms listed in Fundamentals - A Guide for Parents, Teachers and Carers on Mental Health and Self-Esteem by Lynn Crilly and Natasha Devon:

• Fear of being contaminated by germs or dirt, or of contaminating others
• Excessive focus on religious or moral ideas
• Order and symmetry - the idea that all physical objects must line up “just so
• Special attention to something considered lucky or unlucky ("superstitions")
• Praying or engagin in rituals triggered by religious fear to an excessive extent.

Wulf Ingessunu's absurd ritualistic behaviour and obsession with perceived contamination certainly overlaps with these symptoms.

With this in mind, let us take a look at some of the other members of Woden's Folk. Look at this discussion from a now-defunct forum, in which Woden's Folk cultist Paul Young claims to be in personal contact with invisible entities:

In addition to the Aesir gods, my Hearth recognize and relate to a wide variety of spiritual beings or 'wights'. These include the Norns - who are three female entities who weave the web of wyrd - and the Disir - who are female ancestral spirits attached to a tribe, family, or individual. we also work with 'hidden folk' such as elves, brownies, dwarves and etins (giants and other not so pleasant folk). They interact with the landwights who occupy features of the landscape such as streams, mountains, forests or fields. Having a relationship with landwights is an important feature of in our religion and outdoor rituals we carry out only proceed until the permission of landwights is sought and obtained.

Does Young actually believe that these elves and giants are talking to him? Can he hear their voices? If so, he should pay attention to the advice offered at Mentalhealthcare.org.uk:

Researchers have estimated that up to 90 per cent of people who have schizophrenia and up to 80 per cent of people who have bipolar disorder or psychotic depression hear voices either talking to them, or talking about them. 

Voice-hearing experiences are very individual. People may hear just one voice, or two or more voices, and the voices may be speaking at a normal level, or they may be whispering or shouting. The voices may say individual words or sentences, or have detailed conversations – with each other or with the voice-hearer. Someone may hear the same voice or the same voices regularly – each voice may have its own distinct qualities and characteristics, including a name. 

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Voices can also be noisy, strident, annoying and disturbing. Sometimes they are persuasive, or demanding, telling a hearer what to do – these are called 'command' voices. 

People who are unwell sometimes feel they have no control over the voices they hear, and may be very frightened and distressed by them. They may believe the voices are powerful and will harm them if they do not do as they say.

Wulf, if you are reading this article, please seek help. You are not "awakened", you have not undergone a "shamanic initiation", you have succumbed to mental illness. There is no "Woden", there is only a voice in your head. Your followers have not "heard the call of the blood", they have heard auditory hallucinations. Convincing them that they are a divine elect will do nothing but harm. These people need help, not hocus-pocus.


UPDATE: Wulf Ingessunu has replied to this post, although his response has done little to sway me. He confirms my suspicion that the aforementioned posting from FSTDT is a troll, rather than a genuine Woden's Folk member, but he says nothing about Paul Young's claims that elves are talking to him.

Ingessunu's defence rests on the bizarre notion that conventional psychiatry  has no bearing on him because he has a "Germanic Psyche":

The problem is that today's psychiatry, psychoanalysis or psychotherapy is based upon Sigmund Freud rather than upon Carl Gustav Jung, the latter having a far better understanding of the Germanic Psyche - i.e. the Germanic Gods. Thus, any form of 'diagnosis' through psychiatry, psychoanalysis or any other 'psycho' that 'Maggie' would like to quote in regard to these likely causes comes through in a form that is not suited to the knowledge of the Germanic Psyche. I am not suggesting that 'Maggie' is not an expert in her field but that expertise may not be right in regard to the Germanic Psyche.

He also complain that "We on the so-called 'Far-Right' are always accused of being 'a loner' or having 'childhood problems' that make us believe what we do". I didn't mention anything about childhood problems in this post - the fact that Wulf felt the need to bring this topic up in his rebuttal suggests that it is a sensitive topic to him.

Another comment that seems to have particularly bothered Wulf is my suggestion that he has unchecked issues. He apparently responded by obsessively looking up the word "issue" in the dictionary, which would only reaffirm my suspicions:

I have been through various English Dictionaries to find what the word 'issue' really means, and not one of them comes up with the answer 'problems', which is what is clearly meant in this statement. The modern usage of the word 'issue' is typical of the people who have influence in the 'Progressive Society'. One meaning of the word is 'topic of interest' so maybe that is what you mean Maggie....'What do you think?'

Commenting on the list of OCD symptoms identified by Crilly and Devon, Wulf dismisses the authors by claiming that "these people are what is termed 'Cultural Marxists' who cleverly promote Marxist Communism through destroying all genius amongst our Folk, and by attacking those who do not conform to the material economic society."

Wulf also restates his absurd belief that swirling water around in a glass gives it "Life-Force":

Since this part of the attack was about what I said about the water supplies I will explain to Maggie what I meant, since she (he) clearly does not understand. The water that comes through our taps is 'dead water' unlike the water that comes from a spring or well etc. The suggestion that I made was not based so much upon 'magic' as such, but when you spin the water around it collects air, and since air is the medium for the Life-Force then it collects Life-Force. (Quantum Science or Aryan Science recognises this in terms of what scientists call Zero-Point Energy; Materialistic Science cannot do so because only the material world is recognised).

Not everyone is convinced by this claim, however:

At the start of this post I mentioned that Wulf Ingessunu had, without explanation, quoted dialogue from the film The 13th Warrior on his blog. When responding to me, he made the bizarre decision to do it again, this time claiming that the lines were "chanted by the Angel of Death":

Except that, as I have already demonstrated, this song was not "chanted by the Angel of Death", it was made up for a film. It does have a loose historical model, but this was spoken by a slave-girl shortly before she was sacrificed to Odin - not "the Angel of Death".

Is Wulf Ingessunu trying to tell us that he has heard this "Angel of Death" reciting the above piece of movie dialogue? If so, this is clearly another auditory hallucination.

Clive Potter, Wulf Ingessunu, Doctor Who and Robin Hood

Clive Potter

Clive Potter has a colourful history in the British far-right. As well as a brief spell in an obscure party called the National Democrats, and a period as chairman of the English Community Group Leicester, he was part of the BNP - a party that he later condemned as "multicultural":

As barmy as that is, it pales into comparison when we compare it to Potter's writing on his favourite subject: aliens.

Consider this article on his now-defunct website AlienIncarnation, in which his concerns about "deracination" mix with his belief in a race of alien lifeforms called "greys":

The predominant colour of the greys is highly indicative of the ‘greyness’ of humanity, as racial types begin to blend with one another so that racial types gradually disappear and submerge themselves into one common mass of deracinated and rootless cosmopolitan humanity. The aliens’ obsessive interest in genetics and hybrid babies also suggests that another agenda is at issue here, involving the racial engineering of mankind, again reflecting the direction that humanity is moving towards as globalism and multiracialism drives the motor. Are the greys showing us how we will progress and look like in the future? Are they showing us a choice as to how we wish to progress or regress? Why are the aliens so interested in our genetics and our breeding patterns? What is the future of mankind?

Potter seems to have vanished off the net since then. However, a few months ago a letter of his was published in issue 324 of the Fortean Times, in which he claims that an old Doctor Who storyline had eerie parallels with real-life events:

Here is Potter's conclusion:

Jenny Randles mooted the link between fiction and reality-which she termed 'psychic parallelism' - through synchronicity, when she recognised how Stephen Donaldson's fictional Chronicles of Thomas Covenant seemed to mirror the real-life accounts of the experiences and even some of the personalities involved in 'The Green Stone' Affair. It seems that at times the ocean of imagery within the collective unconsciousness can meld into one and appear instantaneously as both works of fiction and as real-life events.

Wulf Ingessunu, founder of Woden's Folk 

All this is reminiscent of Woden's Folk, the neo-Nazi cult founded by Wulf Ingessunu. As I demonstrated here, Wulf based his cult around an "ancient prophecy" which actually originated in the 1980s TV series Robin of Sherwood. After this was pointed out, Ingessunu admitted that it was created for a TV series, but argued that it was still a legitimate prophecy.

This is in character for Ingessunu, who has a tendency to find deep spiritual significance in 20th-century fiction. Just look at his analysis of The Lord of the Rings, for example.

Tying things together, Wulf Ingessunu is a fan of Clive Potter's bizarre alien theories:

I mentioned earlier that the typical UFO seems to defy the laws of this planet, and here we could be in the realms of some sort of object that moves between dimensions, moving quickly from one to the other and thus being able to defy normal laws. These type could be associated with the 'alien abductions' (a name which immediately throws doubt onto the subject) which seem to have taken two particular types - 

The Grey Alien - which seems to be a form of race-less, sexless, uniform type which fits well with the order of being today upon the Earth. This would seem to be a archetype of Nietzsche's 'Ultimate Man'. 

The Nordic - which seems to be trying to aid the upward development of mankind in some way, rather than mere 'experiments'. This would seem to be an archetype of the Sun-Man or Superman. 

(I am indebted to Clive Potter for the above ideas on 'alien abductions', and he is a UFO expert who developed this idea some years ago.) 

Clive's ideas would certainly explain this phenomena to some degree, and he too sees this as some form of 'extra-dimensional' rather than 'extra-terrestrial' (in the sense of 'alien' as the word is used today) form. We seem to have plenty of recorded accounts from hundreds of years ago of people seemingly moving out of this dimension into another, and returning after many years even though the time seemed hours or days. This 'dislocation' of time seems to be part of the phenomena. This was found in Mapp's account of King Herla, a typical account of such a phenomena. This has also been recorded in accounts of 'abduction' which cannot be a coincidence. The stories of Alice in Wonderland and The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis) are also based on this type of phenomena. 

Note, once again, the usage of fantasy fiction as source texts in that last line.

There is circumstantial evidence to suggest that Clive Potter and Wulf Ingessunu are mutual admirers. Read this posting on the Northwest Nationalists blog by someone calling himself "Nemesis":

Come on members of the British National Party... 

WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE!!! 

DON'T GIVE GRI££IN AND DOW$ON EITHER YOUR SUPPORT, LOYALTY AND - ABOVE ALL - YOUR MONEY. 

WE NEED A GENUINE, HONEST AND DECENT LEADER. A MAN OF DESTINY, A MAN OF INTEGRITY AND PERSONAL STANDING,A MAN OF GREAT POLITICAL AND SPIRITUAL VISION AND LEADERSHIP QUALITIES. 

WHERE IS THE 'HOODED MAN' (OF WODEN'S FOLK' PROPHECY)? WHERE IS THE BRITISH AVATAR? 

ALBION AND ITS PEOPLE ARE IN NEED OF YOU.

The anti-fascist site Notes from the Borderland claims that "Nemesis" is actually Clive Potter, but as it does not provide any evidence, I cannot verify this.

Woden and aliens, Doctor Who and Robin Hood, Lord of the Rings and Alice in Wonderland: all of this just goes to show how bizarre the Englisc nationalist movement really is. Just when I think it can't get any stranger, I find something like this.

How many other political movements have this kind of stuff going on?

More lunacy from Woden's Folk: apparently, I'm a prophet

Wulf Ingessunu, proudly sporting his SS insignia hoodie.

A follow-up to my previous post about Woden's Folk...

I have already commented on the "Hooded Man Prophecy" which this group follows. For those unaware, it is a piece of text originally written for the television series Robin of Sherwood; Wulf Ingessunu, founder of Woden's Folk, insists that it is full of mystical significance despite its origins.

I decided to leave Ingessunu a message on his blog pointing out that you can find mystical significance in just about any piece of writing, so long as you try hard enough. To demonstrate my point, I put together a "prophecy" of my own:

'In the days of the bleak times, when all is dark and the skies redden, there will be a sudden shout from the seas and a new dawn will begin, ushered in by the golden figures who have bestrode the earth for many eons.'

This was just a pile of nonsense I scrawled down in a few seconds, vaguely informed by the sword-and-sorcery games I used to play as a kid. Hilariously, however, Wulf Ingessunu has gone through the trouble of providing a mystical interpretation of the rubbish I wrote - and he seems to think that doing so proves his point, rather than mine. As he tells us...

"I will be accused of making something from nothing, but the fact remains that this 'prophecy' can be fitted into our work. Either Maggie has read more of our stuff and come up with this unconsciously or - something 'inspired' her to make such a comment, even though the 'prophecy' was meant to be ridicule."

Here is a sample of Wulf's analysis:

"Is this piece not astounding in view of the previous work done through Woden's Folk? I am going to go through this 'prophecy' piece by piece - 

1. The 'bleak time' we already know about since we are living through the latter part of the Wolf-Age/Kali Yuga/Dark Age. 

2. The 'skies redden' - an ancient Germanic Prophecy tells of the time when the Sword of Orion (Herne the Hunter) will shine RED. In Norse Prophecy the RED COCK crows to awaken the Giants and Monsters (Jotun) to the Ragnarok. 

3. 'Shout from the seas' - in various past articles I have equated the coming of The Hooded Man - Last Avatar - with his arising from the Great Deep."

He goes on like this for a considerable amount of time. Here is his conclusion:

"'Maggie Benn's Prophecy' contains one missing idea, since it assumes that the world shall change overnight - just like that! This would fit with some 'New Age' ideas, but every ancient myth or legend tells of a great Cosmic Battle that will precede the End Time. It is this that destroys the Powers of Darkness and ushers in the new Golden Age - it does not just happen. 

Is this made-up 'prophecy' what Carl Jung would call synchronicity or what Friedrich Nietzsche would call meaningful coincidence? Even the 'shout from the seas' reminds us of the Horn of Hama (Heimdall) which awakens the Gods and Men to the Final Battle. Of course, I will now be accused of interpreting this in my own unique way (which I have) but it does not negate the fact that there are some 'coincidences' in this piece that cannot easily be explained. Do our thoughts arise from nowhere, or is there a 'source' that we tap into? In my own experience on many, many occasions, such 'thoughts' seem to appear from 'nowhere' but are essential keys to some Mystery."

Of course, he could have got similar results had I used some kind of random prophecy generator. Any word can be taken as symbolic in one way or another - for example, consider how he takes my mention of the sky turning red as a reference to Orion's red sword. If I'd predicted the sky turning white or grey, Wulf could have interpreted that as signifying Fimbulwinter. Had I predicted a green sky, he could have taken that to mean that forests will re-grow after the fall of civilisation. A black sky could indicate the sun being swallowed by Fenrir during Ragnarok. A pink sky could refer to the evil gay rights lobby and the emasculation of Aryan man. And so on, and so on.

If you're reading this, Wulf, here's another mystical prophecy for you, one written in the ancient Book of Cyril:

"There shall, in that time, be rumors of things going astray, and there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia work base that has an attachment. At this time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight o'clock."

"Lose his friend's hammer"? Clearly a reference to Thunor...

It's official - Woden's Folk worship Hitler

A few months ago I made a post about the bizarre Woden’s Folk organisation. Unbenownst to me, its founder Wulf Ingessunu had, shortly beforehand, begun operating a new blog under the name Wulfinga.

In my post I provided evidence that Woden’s Folk is a pro-Nazi organisation. I also pointed out that one of its most active members believes Hitler to have been an incarnation of a god, and that Wulf Ingessunu appears to have the same opinion.

Ingessunu's new blog provides further evidence that this is the case. Consider this passage:

“The end of the last cycle was closed by the incarnation of Wotan upon Earth in Germany, and the subsequent war against the Dark Forces which was the equivalent to the mythical Twelve Nights of Yule (1933 - 1945). This heralded the appearance of the 'Manu' who revived the Divine Order of Caste and held back the growing power of the Dark Forces and their plans for global control - at a spiritual level as much as a material level.”

The period from 1933 to 1945, of course, covers Hitler's time in power. If you are still unsure as to who the divine avatar who "revived the Divine Order of Caste and held back the growing power of the Dark Forces", then notice that Hitler is later specifically named in the same post:

“Only through recognising that a god can actually incarnate in the flesh will we be able to understand what I am trying to say - figures such as Alexandra the Great, Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan and Adolf Hitler  can only be understood for what they were through a knowledge of the meaning of an avatar. This force can be creative or it can be destructive but it is there to herald a change in the order of things…”

Well, there we have it. There is now little room to doubt that Wulf Ingessunu, founder of Woden’s Folk, considers Hitler to have been an avatar of Woden who heroically fought against “Dark Forces” in World War II.
In a later post Ingessunu makes it even more explicit that he associates the Allies with the forces of darkness, and the Nazis with divine gods:

“A great deal is made of the 'Occult Reich' or 'Nazi Occultism' but rarely do we find anything about the occult forces that were working here in England, forces that were trying to shape a 'New World Order' after the catastrophe of World War II.

[…]

Dion Fortune used certain magical techniques to try to influence the course of the war, and to bring about the victory of the 'Allies' over the Third Reich.

There are two distinct things that emerge from a study of this work, the first being the influences behind her ideas and magical workings, and (to us) the important magical ideas that she used to influence events of her era - ideas that can easily be reversed and used against these same Forces of Evil that she and other Dark Lodges used against the rising of the Old Germanic Gods in the Germany of the time.”

Ingessunu goes on to cite Dion Fortune’s anti-Nazi views as being part of a Judeo-Christian plot against Aryans:

“Like much of the 'New Age' stuff banded about today, the work of this group also involved 'angelic' presences, these 'angels' being a Christian concept. Dion Fortune also mentions various Christian concepts used in her workings, proving beyond doubt that her work was concerned with the furtherance of the Judaeo-Christian aims, which are, and always have been, designed to distort the Folk-Soul of our Race.”

After this, Ingessunu quotes Dion Fortune’s comment that “There is no room for Nazism and democratic civilisation on the same globe, and one or the other will have to get off it.” Here is his response to this belief:

“We have seen what 'democratic civilisation' can do with the 'Brit-Am' alliance under the new 'American Empire' which has caused and created wars ever since World War II, and indeed caused that war and the previous world war too. This is rather more than a war between 'Nazism' and 'democratic civilisation' since it is a war between the evolutionary forces that are aiding man's evolution to the 'Superman', and the forces that are holding back that evolution through the creation of the 'Ultimate Man' (Nietzsche). The former seeks to strengthen the individual ego to create the Ultimate I,  whilst the latter seeks to merge the 'ego' into the 'All' and thus destroy the 'ego' altogether.”

He goes on:

“Only through these methods could the English be stopped from joining with their Germanic Brothers in Germany in a Holy War against the Jotun. It was the 'White Traitors' whose work undermined that of the Light Forces and this was done through such occult lodges as the Fraternity of the Inner Light.”

So, there we have it. Wulf Ingessunu believes that the Nazis were fighting a “holy war”, and blames “white traitors” for preventing the English from fighting alongside Hitler.

Woden’s Folk are a Nazi cult.



As a final note, here's something I've posted before - a Facebook message from the Steadfast Trust charity which openly invites the Hitler-worshippers of Woden's Folk to one of its events:

Now that Woden's Folk have been thoroughly exposed as neo-Nazis, perhaps the Steadfast Trust will issue a public statement denouncing the group and officially cutting all ties with it.


But I doubt it.

Dan Rayner

I've been thinking about a post on Dan Rayner, founder of Nationalist Asatru News. I recently noticed that RationalWiki.org had already done the job by posting an article about him - which has since been deleted on the grounds that he is too obscure to be worth covering. So, here is an archive of their deleted article...


Dan Rayner is a 20 year old British white supremacist, holocaust denier and internet-conspiracy theorist crank. 

Rayner is a member of various white nationalist websites and blogs, and identifies as a 'pagan racial separatist'. He founded the Nationalist Asatru News in October 2013 which he describes as an "operational News company and political community organization outfit, having already completed 2 public meetings". In reality, it is little more than a shoddy website. Its sole member is also Rayner, and his two public meetings consisted of fewer than ten neo-Nazis (including a former Birmingham BNP organizer) who would go on to describe Rayner as a "weirdo" on the VNNforum.

[Note: From the link provided as a source, I am not sure which member is being referred to here. The word "weirdo" is not used in the thread, although "JackbootShaman" refers to Rayner as a "very weird kid"]

Aside from being a racist, Rayner is an Asatru pagan, and he has described his nutty racialized religious views in an interview hosted by Red Ice Radio.

He attended a "pro-Golden Dawn" fascist demonstration alongside National Front members outside the Greek Embassy of London on 9th November 2013.

Rayner currently is a Politics & Philosophy student at the University of Sheffield, England. The university is apparently aware of his extremist views, but has not been able to expel him. In August, 2014 he uploaded a video to YouTube where he is shown cycling around parts of Sheffield with a camera, moaning at the amount of Muslims he sees.

An assortment of skinheads and neo-Nazis at Stormfront have fallen out with Rayner, since he has described National Action as a "Jewish infiltrated" group.

Rayner also claims Nick Griffin is Jewish, which has caused him to be unpopular among British National Party members. Instead of voting BNP, Rayner has called for white nationalists to vote tactically for UKIP in the 2015 General Election.

In a desperate attempt to gain some followers, he has shut down his poorly received Nationalist Asatru News website and relaunched it as englishnews.org, stating that Asatru News was merely a "test phase". English News contains more insane ramblings from the man himself but is essentially the same website

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The history of the "Englisc" nationalist movement, part 2: The supporters gather

In the first post in this series, I looked at three groups (all founded or at least co-founded by Tony Linsell) that laid the groundwork for a movement which I term "Englisc nationalism". With this post, I will look at two subsequent organisations that helped to develop the movement...

UEP/Anglo-Saxon Foundation/Englisc-Gateway (established 2004)

This is a message board that started out as the forum of a website called United English Patriots (UEP for short; its website was at UEPEngland.com). It later adopted its current title of Anglo-Saxon Foundation, and is now part of a wider website called Englisc-Gateway. A Whois lookup of the original URL reveals that the site was started in September 2004, although the forum may have come along a little later.

I plan to devote a whole post to this forum and its leadership at a later date, but for now I will keep things simple: the Anglo-Saxon Foundation is where things get really racist.

RationalWiki and Fundies say the Darndest Things have already done thorough jobs of covering what the forum's members stand for, but here is a quick selection of some typical posts...

(The above post is a reply to a thread about a black rapist. Before any ASFers swoop down on me, yes, AelfredSeax is entirely right to condemn the rapist - but why is he using the incident to justify the murder of James Byrd Jr?)

Any ASF members reading this will probably claim that I have taken the above posts out of context. But really, what kind of context would make them any more acceptable? Are we expected to believe that the ASF is some kind of role-playing group whose members sit around pretending to be bigots for fun?

For once, it does not appear that Tony Linsell had a hand in starting this group - not directly, anyway. But his writing is an oft-cited inspiration amongst the members...

(The above poster, who boasts of meeting Tony Linsell on a yearly basis, is the Nazi sympathiser and Breivik supporter Clive Calladine - I discussed him at length here)

The ASF also shows strong support for the Steadfast Trust, and I do not think that it would be too much of an exaggeration to describe it as the unofficial Steadfast Trust forum. For one thing, there is a notable overlap in membership.

The OpenCharities page on the Steadfast Trust names five people as trustees: Julien Crighton, Shelly Donohoe, Mark Taylor, Tim Hawke and Lynn Chorley.

Mark Taylor, the Steadfast Trust's events co-ordinator, posts at the ASF under the name "Scyld Scefing":

Tim Hawke is also a poster at the forum (although, to be fair, not a very active one):

As for Lynn Chorley, well, just compare her user image on Facebook...

...with that of the ASF member "Saxonmaiden":

I'm not the only person to have noticed this:

Moving on to Julien Crighton, look at this article by Richard Chambers on the Anglo-Saxon Books website:

"Monday 6th October 2003. Seven days ago the England Society had officially launched as a Student Union society at Keele University in North Staffordshire. [...] Our one and only leaflet at the time was a simple affair consisting of a welcome and thanks for interest before going on to give the basics about fair and moderate representation, a list of planned and provisional events over the first few months and a short piece on the current political struggles faced by England and the English, kindly provided by Julien Crighton from wearetheenglish.com." [emphasis mine]

WeAreTheEnglish.com is an online store whose official message board is hosted by - you guessed it - the Anglo-Saxon Foundation.

I've already provided evidence of a Steadfast trustee spending his saturday with a Stormfront member. These people really need a talking to about their connections to racist Internet forums.

We should not be surprised to find that the Steadfast Trust has openly endorsed the ASF (along with the similarly racist Woden's Folk, discussed below) by calling for the forum's members to be invited to an official charity event:

And sure enough they came, something which the Steadfast Trust acknowledges on its website:

"Steadfast Trust, Woden’s Folk, Shieldwall, ED and ASF supporters gathered together at Battle in spite of dire weather warnings for the Sussex area. Having met up in our usual haunt ‘The Abbey Inn’, we had a pleasant hour to enjoy a fine ale or two and discuss matters affecting the whole English community, and to ‘put faces to names’ which was very rewarding.

[...]

Wreaths were laid, and this was followed by a blot made by Woden’s Folk at which the meadhorn was passed and oaths were taken to continue the fight to retain our native land. Once again, a big ‘thank you’ to everyone who attended.
Waes hael!"

Woden's Folk (online presence cemented 2005)

Woden's Folk is the name of a cult that was set up in 1998 by someone who calls himself Wulf Ingessunu. Its original, Freeserve-hosted website began in 2000 at the latest, and it moved to its own domain in 2005.

I have decided to place the group at this point in the chronology because it was around the time that the disparate groupings of the Englisc nationalist movement merged together. The way I see it, Tony Linsell provided the political theory, Wulf Ingessunu provided the spirituality and mysticism, and the two streams converged at the Anglo-Saxon Foundation forum.

Wulf Ingessunu, founder of Woden's Folk

I covered Woden's Folk in full here. As a quick summary, this is a bizarre religious sect that has attracted criticism (some of it from other pagans and heathens) for two main reasons:

1: Its overt racism, including outright neo-Nazi links;
2: The fact that it has taken a line of dialogue from the 1980s television series Robin of Sherwood and tried to pass it off as an "ancient prophecy".

In fact, looking over the evidence that I presented in my last post about this group, I'm going to come right out and say that Woden's Folk is a pro-Nazi organisation. There is simply no way that an organisation could forge links with so many neo-Nazi elements without sharing at least some of that philosophy itself.

Having already discussed the group itself at length, I will take the opportunity here to talk about the connections between Woden's Folk and other Englisc nationalist groups. For a start, Woden's Folk are well-liked at the Anglo-Saxon Foundation: as can be seen from the thread archived at RationalWiki here, here and here, the ASF members are willing to support the group even in the knowledge that Ingessunu's "ancient prophecy" was swiped from a TV show.

And I have already shown above that the supposedly non-racist Steadfast Trust has endorsed this group - although quite how a charity dedicated to preserving and promoting the history of England can give a thumbs-up to people who are trying to reconstruct England's pre-Christian religion from a TV series is beyond me.

On the other hand, I did note the curiously Conan the Barbarian-esque history lesson given by Steadfast Trust co-founder Tony Linsell in the last post in this series. I have also noted how people in the Englisc nationalist movement have latched on to a "warrior's prayer" from the film The 13th Warrior. These people appear to get a remarkable amount of their history and religion from twentieth-century fiction.

One significant link between Woden's Folk and other Englisc nationalist groups is a man who calls himself "Bretwalda Randwulf", "Randwulf Iren Heorte", "Youngy" or "Yngvi" depending on which part of the Internet he is currently inhabiting. RationalWiki has an article about this strange fellow which goes into plenty of detail (more detail than anybody could reasonably hope for, in fact) about Youngy's beliefs, activities and regrettable attempts at poetry.

As a quick sample, here are Youngy's thoughts on race relations:

In 2011 Youngy/Bretwalda Randwulf organised a nationalist festival called the English Folcmoot:

Youngy's event was was funded by... the Steadfast Trust (Goodness me, I'm starting to feel like Glenn Beck joining the dots on his blackboard):

"Early in the establishment of the Steadfast Trust it was hoped that the charity would be able to organise a yearly family fair celebrating the culture of the early Anglo-Saxon Englisc in a fun, entertaining and educational way.

So when the charity was approached with the request to fund the Great Englisc Folcmoot 2011, we naturally did all we could to help, which included providing £4000 in funding for equipment (all of which will be used next year), hired entertainment and health and safety expenses.

[...]

There was also a surprise visit from members of the Leicester English Community Group who thanked the charity for a recent book grant."

At this point, the Englisc nationalists were hoping to reach out to the masses and lead a revolution. Unfortunately for them, this was not to happen. In the third and possibly final post in this series, I will look at their failed attempts to establish grassroots Englisc nationalist movements.

Wulf Ingessunu and Woden's Folk: How a 1980s TV series inspired a racist cult

Wulf Ingessunu, founder of Woden's Folk

Woden's Folk and Robin of Sherwood

The thing about Wodenism is that very little of the religion actually survives. So, people attempting to revive the pre-Christian religion of the Anglo-Saxons in the present day have had to be a little... imaginative.

In the case of Woden's Folk, that means borrowing its theology from the 1980s ITV series Robin of Sherwood, written by Catweazel creator Richard Carpenter.

Take a look at this excerpt from an old version of the Woden's Folk website, in which founder Wulf Ingessunu discusses the "Hooded Man prophecy" that is at the heart of his beliefs:

'The Prophecies of Gildas –

“In the days of the Lion, spawned of the Devil’s brood, the Hooded Man shall come to the forest. There he will meet Herne the Hunter, Lord of the Trees, to be his son and do his bidding. The Powers of Light and Darkness shall be strong within him. And the guilty shall tremble.”

From this Ancient Prophecy we can see that the “Powers of Light and Darkness” are strong within the figure of Robin Hood: his is a figure of the balance of opposites as we stated before. At the end we find the statement – “The guilty shall tremble”: this infers that the figure of The Hooded Man incarnates to bring Justice, and in doing so to reap vengeance upon the guilty. The Hooded Man becomes “Herne’s Son” after coming to the forest.

This Prophecy of Gildas was restated in a slightly different form to a Woden Initiate (Wulf Ingessunu – “Wulf – Son of Ing”) on 31 October 1993 in Horam, East Sussex, England. I am now going to show how the new version is the true version for the new Age of Aquarius, and that this revised prophecy heralded the end of the Age of Pisces (Christ-Age) and the beginning of the Age of Aquarius (August 1999).

The Hooded Man Prophecy –

“In the Days of the Lion, spawned of the Evil Brood, The Hooded Man shall come to the forest. There he will meet with Herne the Hunter – Lord of the Trees – to be his Son and do his bidding. The Power of Light and the Power of Darkness were strong within him. And the guilty shall tremble!”               The Hooded Man Prophecy 1993.'

The trouble is that this "ancient prophecy" is not ancient at all. It was created for Robin of Sherwood.

Wulf Ingessunu is obviously aware of this connection, as he mentions the series twice on the same page:

'In the “Robin of Sherwood” series of the 1980s we find the figure of Herne the Hunter as the Mystic Guide to the English Folk-Hero.'

'The name “Tell” is related to words meaning “Fool” as also is The Hooded Man related to The Fool of the Tarot (according to the Robin of Sherwood series).'

The fact that Woden's Folk was inspired by a television show has led it to being - to put it mildly - questioned in some quarters. RationalWiki has an article on the group which spends a good amount of time discussing its debt to Robin of Sherwood; Fundies say the Darnedest Things has taken aim at Woden's Folk several times (here, here and here); the Fortean Times forum had a discussion about it; and one Atheist Forums member hailed the organisation as "a religion weirder than scientology".

The prophecy is not the only element of Robin of Sherwood to be incorporated into the beliefs of Woden's Folk, as RationalWiki describes:

"Ingessunu has also provided an interpretation of the prophecy:

'This prophecy declares that the purpose of Woden's Folk is to create a balance between the Power of Light and the Power of Darkness, this being symbolised by the Seventh Sword of Wayland - Albion.'

Again, this is lifted from Robin of Sherwood. Although the swordsmith Wayland is a genuine legendary figure, the idea of him having made seven swords, with the seventh being named Albion, is an invention of the television series."

Just how can a piece of dialogue created for a 1980s TV series be an "ancient prophecy"? Well, the group's supporters have come up with three answers...



Argument #1: Although it was used in Robin of Sherwood, the text was originally composed by the sixth century writer Gildas.

This is a suggestion made by the Anglo-Saxon Foundation member "Hodekin", although to be fair he does express doubt as to whether or not it is accurate:

And he is right to do so, as it is not accurate at all. The scripts for Robin of Sherwood do indeed identify the text as one of the "prophecies of Gildas", and yes, Gildas was a real person. But while Gildas may have written the prophecy in the fictional world of Robin of Sherwood, he did not write it in the real world. Here's what RationalWiki has to say on the matter:

'There was a historical Gildas, who lived in the sixth century AD, but he is unlikely to have written the above lines as they mention Herne the Hunter. The earliest known written reference to this character is in Shakespeare's 1597 comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor, and he appears not to have been mentioned in any other surviving texts until 1792.

There is speculation that Shakespeare's Herne (described as the horned, chain-rattling ghost of a deceased gamekeeper) is based on an earlier legendary character, possibly the Celtic god Cernunnos, but the name "Herne the Hunter" is not known to have been used before Shakespeare's play. Moreover it has been suggested that Shakespeare himself may have invented at least some aspects of the character - such as the horns, which provide comedy value when Falstaff comes to impersonate Herne in the play. Herne the Hunter may simply have been a sixteenth century Casper the Friendly Ghost.

Wulf Ingesunnu has said that the prophecy "appeared in the 'Robin of Sherwood' TV series of the 1980s" but seems reluctant to state where the prophecy appeared before its use in this series. The reason for this is simple: this "ancient" prophecy was, in fact, created for a television show in the eighties.'

Disagree? Well, show me an actual historical document that contains the "prophecies of Gildas", then we'll talk.


Argument #2: While the specific form of the text was written in the 1980s, its meaning is ancient.

This is Wulf Ingessunu's personal answer to the criticism, as quoted at RationalWiki:

'Woden's Folk relies heavily on 'The Hooded Man Prophecy' which is an altered version of the "Prophesies of Gildas' featured in the 1980s 'Robin of Sherwood' series. This is held to be an ancient prophecy since prophecy is TIMELESS and its use in a series devoted to 'The Hooded Man' is proof of its arising in the Folk-Consciousness of the English. It was revealed - in its altered state - to Wulf Ingessunu on October 31st 1993 together with certain symbols which revealed the nature of 'The Hooded Man'. It has to be understood that 'The Hooded Man' is an ARCHETYPE and is thus subject to the Eternal Return - i.e. this is an incarnation of a god-force upon the Earth. The power of such an ARCHETYPE shows itself in many ways prior to the full incarnation of the Myth.

When Woden's Folk uses the term 'ancient prophecy' for this it does so in the above sense, a sense not easily understood by those who do not share a mystical leaning, and those who ridicule everything that does not fit with their own narrow-minded world-view.'

The problem with this argument - aside from the obvious reliance on mystical mumbo-jumbo - is that Wulf himself is unsure of what the prophecy actually means. Here is part of his analysis from the old version of his website quoted from above:

'The “Days of the Lion” will usually be taken to refer to Richard the Lion-Heart, the King usually associated with the Robin Hood era. But prophecy is not something that is bound to one era – it is eternal. The “Days of the Lion” could refer to the Lion of Judah which is the symbol of Judaism. Or, at another level, it can refer to Leo the Lion – a Zodiacal Constellation.'

Another Woden's Folk member, meanwhile, claims that "the days of the lion" refers to Osama bin Laden, as the name Osama is Arabic for "lion".

So, the group has given us three self-contradictory interpretations of the phrase "days of the lion": Judaism, the constellation of Leo, and Osama bin Laden.

As they don't know what the prophecy actually means in this respect, how can they tell us that its meaning is "ancient"?

There is only one claim made by the prophecy that Wulf has been able to clarify with any degree of certainty: that sometime in the near future, Woden will be incarnated as a magical hooded man who will arrive to save England. This scenario, of course, is so patently absurd that it can be dismissed without a second thought.

Wulf would probably reply that I do not share his mystical leaning. To be entirely honest, I'd take that as a compliment.


Argument #3: Robin of Sherwood was divinely inspired.

Here is what the Anglo-Saxon Foundation member "Eassex cempa" has to say:

Short version: if priests can receive messages from God, then so can television scriptwriters.

Well, I can't prove this claim wrong. If we accept the idea of a divinely-inspired text, then it is theoretically possible that a script for a television series could be the word of a god. The obvious question is this: where do we stop?

If Robin of Sherwood contains a divinely-inspired prophecy, then surely it would be just as reasonable to build up a cult around Xena: Warrior Princess, or Doctor Who, or Only Fools and Horses. Ingessunu seems to think that the "hooded man prophecy" must be divine because he had a dream about it; I had a dream about Batman when I was 12, does that mean I should worship him?

"Wyrd goes where it must", says the Woden's Folk supporter quoted above. In this case, Wyrd seems to have gone out of its way to ensure that Woden's supposed representatives are treated as a massive joke.

Woden's Folk and racism

This is what Woden's Folk have to say on the topic of race relations:

'We oppose the multi-racial society where various different “communities” vie for a slice of the cake in a decaying and dying nation. This evil system has produced a hell-on-earth in which crime, violence, perversion and subversion are rife. This type of society has never worked – and never will! Multi-racialism or “multi-culturalism” is the basis of a one-world state – a World Dictatorship! '

Pretty clean-cut: the organisation wants all non-white people out of the country.

But if that's not enough for you, there's more…

An older version of the Woden's Folk website included a poetry section. Here's a poem praising David Lane as the "son of Woden":

David Lane, for those unfamiliar with him, was one of the most notorious white nationalists in the history of the movement. In 1987 he was sentenced to 150 years in prison for his role in the murder of a Jewish radio host named Alan Berg.

During his life, David Lane often worked with two collaborators: his wife Katja Lane and the writer-illustrator Ron McVan. With this in mind, it is interesting to note that one version of the Woden's Folk website included a dedication to "Katja,Ron for the friendship they have shown".

At this point, it's hard to deny that the group is racist. Out of academic interest, we can push things a little further by asking if Woden's Folk is specifically a neo-Nazi organisation. Well...

Here's what the links page of the Woden's Folk website looks like:

Yup - that's SS insignia, folks. It's worth mentioning that an earlier version of the Woden's Folk website also had a swastika proudly placed on its home page:

Now, the group's supporters will probably be rushing to inform me that the swastika predates Nazism. I'm aware of this, and I don't see anything inherently wrong with a non-Nazi group trying to reclaim the symbol for its earlier meanings (although, if they do, I think it'd be basic sense for them to issue a statement clarifying that they are not pro-Nazi). But since Woden's Folk is using both swastikas and the totenkopf insignia of the SS, then really, there are so many ways to interpret their intentions.

Returning to the links page, we see six sites listed. The last three are run by Wulf Ingessunu while the first three are run by a Woden's Folk member known variously as "Wotans Krieger", "Wulf Veldasson" and "Aryan Lord".

Wotans Krieger, a Hitler worshipper in the most literal sense…

Wotans Krieger is an unabashed neo-Nazi who believes Hitler to have been an incarnation of the god Wotan/Woden/Odin. FSTDT has a selection of some of his more remarkable quotes;  here are just a few of my favourites...

"Dr Jung was effectively the first one to recognise that Wotan had awoken and resided not only in Hitler but the German people as a whole. This reawakening started not with Hitler. The groundwork had begun in the 19th century and the most obvious example of Wotan moving in the German Collective Unconscious was reflected in the music of Wilhelm Richard Wagner and in particular in his Der Ring des Nibelungen cycle of music dramas. Savitri Devi and Miguel Serrano took this conclusion one step further and referred to Hitler as being an avatar."

"By educating our own children we avoid instilling into their minds the multicultural, multiracial, `equality` nonsense that is preached at them in schools and we also avoid the vile homosexual filth that they are exposed to as part of their `education`. [...]
 We can give them a real sense of who they are, the uniqueness of their Aryan identity and instil in them love for their own race and an abhorrence for miscegenation, drug taking, homosexuality and general degeneracy." 

"To me there is something unnatural, something ungermanic, something alien about male flip-flop and sandal wearers." 

"However the `solution` is coming and it will be a final solution, not one instigated by us but by Mutter Erde Herself. The nuclear holocausts that will be unleashed by the zionists will cause a chain reaction throughout nature and will wipe out most of humanity. This we know has happened before many times in the unrecorded history of the earth. As someone far wiser than me once noted Ragnarok spelled in reverse is Korangar-the spear[Gar-Proto-Germanic] of the Koran. In otherwords Ragnarok will be initiated as the result of Islamic fundamentalism."

Another Woden's Folk member, known as "Steed", operated a blog called Eye of Woden which has now closed. Parts of it can be read on Archive.org, including this utterly bizarre passage:

"As I mentioned at the beginning of this article 'the Nazis' (as their detractors called them) have become synonymous with the concept of Vril. The relationship between 'the Vril Society' and National Socialism is written of widely, from varying perspectives. Some claim that the Vril Society was behind Hitler's rise to power, whilst others accuse the Vril Society of collaboration with the Illuminati and other secret societies which are now recognised as being harmful to the sovereignty and health of man and nation. I know too little of the Vril Society to comment reliably, but its true nature is nevertheless irrelevant to my next point.

Adolf Hitler, whether you deem him a great man or a genocidal maniac, was clearly in possession of copious Vril. This blog does not exist to promote a belief in Hitler's greatness, but I do nevertheless understand the truth surrounding the man and his war."

Make of that what you will. See FSTDT for more of Steed's writings, across both his own blog and the Anglo-Saxon Foundation.

Moving on, Woden's Folk and its sister organisation English Resistance (also run by Wulf Ingessunu) have posted a few videos online. This one is set to the song "White Rider" by the neo-Nazi skinhead band Skrewdriver ("Some fools will oppose you, true men will stay loyal/But the victory shall be ours for the blood and the soil/You feel love for your people, disdain for the fools/The enemy's led by the Zionist tools").

Another video features the song "White Dragon" by former Skrewdriver guitarist Martin Cross ("Overwhelm the invader that has infected our shore/Strike with a vengeance and lay down the law"). Cross was also a member of the neo-Nazi organisation Combat 18, and in 1998 he was sentenced to life in prison for his part in the member of fellow C18 member Chris Castle. He was previously convicted for helping to publish magazines detailing how to make bombs.

Next, we have this post about Woden's Folk at a neo-Nazi blog. Wulf Ingessunu himself posts in the comments section:

If you don't feel like reading the whole thing (and yes, he certainly waffles on when he feels like it), here are some highlights from this rather bizarre screed:

I am not particularly familiar with Miguel Serrano, whose works on "Esoteric Hitlerism" are discussed favourably by Ingessunu. So, I went to the neo-Nazi wiki Metapedia for a short explanation of his views:

"Miguel Serrano (born September 10, 1917; died February 28, 2009) is a retired Chilean diplomat, explorer, and an author of poetry, books on spiritual questing and Esoteric Hitlerism. Serrano's extraordinarily forceful and anti-modernist neo-Gnostic philosophy elucidates the otherworldly origin of the Hyperborean-descended Aryans, image-bearers of the godhead, and a global conspiracy against them by an evil inferior godlet, the Demiurge Yahweh-Jehovah, worshipped by the Jews, lord of planet Earth, spawner of the primitive hominid stocks and all base materiality. 

He foremostly synthesizes the Hindu-Vedic and Nordic-Germanic religious traditions -- both of which he regards as of ancient Aryan-Hyperborean provenance -- in addition to particularly esoteric and racialist interpretations of Buddhism, Christianity (or "Kristianism"), Luciferianism (=not Satanism), and Gnosticism. Serrano is especially indebted to the Jungian theory of collective racial archetypes and follows Savitri Devi in recognizing Adolf Hitler as an avatar (divine incarnation) who battled against the demonic materialistic hosts of the Kali Yuga."

The fact that Wulf Ingessunu can treat the writings of this nutcase in such a respectable manner speaks volumes about the leanings of his group.

At this point, if Woden's Folk are not a neo-Nazi group, then they are doing a simply remarkable impersonation of one. But it goes on...

Look around YouTube and you will find excerpts from a speech given by Wulf Ingessunu at a New Right meeting (New Right is an organisation that appears to consist primarily of neo-Nazis and Islamists finding common ground in their hatred of Jews). Here's one of Wulf's more intriguing recorded comments:

"I would suggest that people start preparing themselves and their children for the catastrophic times that are coming to this planet, caused by the people that these people have been saying we should fight. I am well aware who's behind it, well aware who's behind all these things the same as everybody else is. But this infection will create problems that they can't control: they may centralise the whole of this thing in Jerusalem, and there it will be destroyed."

So, Ingessunu believes in a sinister global conspiracy centred in Jerusalem. It is pretty clear that he is invoking the age-old idea of the worldwide Jewish conspiracy.

It gets better:

"And that is why Lord of the Rings was put out at the beginning of the new millennium, because here in England a power is going to arise within the next few years that will challenge the might of this New World Order. In prophecy, in Norse prophecy, we have a prophecy where a mighty one would come, matchless in strength." 

[Audience member sniggers] 

"Okay, anybody can laugh at it. But I - if you let me finish, if you let me finish, right - because a power will arise here in this country. It doesn't seem as if it would now, because the people are asleep, but they can be awakened. This has happened before, this power has awoken before in Europe in the last century. 

The same power backed by the runes - the Northern European runes - will arise here in England. As I said, a mighty one was born, matchless in strength, nursed in blood to suckle the ground. If you look in Norse mythology we find that this is Heimdall, who brings the laws of caste and laws of race to his people."

What is Wulf talking about when he claims that the "power" he predicts - represented by a "mighty one" who enforces the "laws of race" - had previously arisen in Europe in the twentieth century? He appears to have a specific event or personage from European history in mind, but what or whom?

I do not know for sure. But at this point it is worth going back to the neo-Nazi blogger Wotans Krieger. Here is a post he made at the white nationalist forum Vanguard News Network forum under the name "Aryan Lord":

So, he equates Hitler with Heimdall, as well as Wotan. He claims that his views are not necessarily shared by the rest of Woden's Folk, but yet they dovetail perfectly with Wulf Ingessunu's comments above if we interpret the "mighty one" as Adolf Hitler and the power that "has awoken before in Europe in the last century" as Nazism.

I'm not the only one to have made this observation, as evidenced by this YouTube comment on one of Wulf's speeches. The poster criticises Wulf's speech-giving methods, but approves of his overall views:

If the twentieth-century "Mighty One" hailed by Wulf isn't Hitler, then who is it?

Wulf Ingessunu's book, produced in collaboration with Troy Southgate.

Woden's Folk and privacy

According to these posts from the Anglo-Saxon Foundation and Vanguard News Network, Woden's Folk don't like people talking about their beliefs in public:

 

 

It's not hard to see the reason for this. The beliefs of Woden's Folk do not stand up to any kind of close inspection - the more they are discussed, the more absurd they appear.

As a result, Wulf Ingessunu has resorted to trying to keep the exact philosophy of his group private. He just cannot bear people poking fun at him.

I spoke to some practising heathens in researching for this post, and they were not at all impressed by Wulf Ingessunu and his "ancient prophecy of the hooded man". And why would they be? As I have demonstrated, the alleged prophecy is no more than a statement so vague as to be meaningless, written for a television series and later adopted by a bigot who sees himself as a holy man and visionary.

With the absurdity of Ingessunu's views exposed for all to see, it is safe to say that anyone who still supports Woden's Folk is a gullible oaf, desperate to find some kind of mystical justification for their common-or-garden bigotry.