Robert W E Farrah looks into the esoteric furore ignited by a new public artwork in Carlisle The Curse In the very heart of the city of Carlisle, as the new millennium was beginning, a tale of the supernatural was unfolding which would be worthy of the wild imaginings of many a horror writer. […]
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Laurence Main finds an old spirit path in Wales This did not begin with a thick pencil, drawing lines on a grubby, folded map. Perish the thought! My means of maintaining a modicum of sanity in this world is to escape to the hills and ancient trackways. Yes, old straight tracks. I didn’t make them straight.
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Is all discussion of spirit roads straight talking? Ulrich Magin finds traditional indications of both the straight and crooked passage of spirits What do spirits prefer? Straight or crooked travel? This question has led to some conflict in the discussion of leys and often to grand statements about what folklore says and what it
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Is the famous Cretan fresco denoting the stars around Taurus? William Glyn-Jones thinks it may be… Cr. Heraklion Archaeological Museum CCO, Wikimedia Commons The Bull Leaper fresco (p.16) from the palace of Knossos in Crete has always been a particular favourite of mine. The graceful power of the bull, with its sensuous
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Should we take seriously legends about ‘retribution’ coming to humans who violate ritual sites? Robert W E Farrah has been wondering the same thing… It was during the campaign to stop a Christian ‘Millennium Monument’ being erected in the vicinity of Mayburgh henge (see NE 84 & 85) that I was reminded
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Robert W E Farrah looks into the esoteric furore ignited by a new public artwork in Carlisle The curse In the very heart of the city of Carlisle, as the new millennium was beginning, a tale of the supernatural was unfolding which would be worthy of the wild imaginings of many a horror writer.
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David Kaiser goes in quest of the ‘original’ Long Meg. Long Meg and Her Daughters is one of northern England’s most famous prehistoric monuments. It’s an impressive site. About five miles N of Penrith, it is Britain’s sixth largest stone circle. It originally consisted of a ring of about seventy large stones standing in an
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Paul Devereux is a man in quest of the mystical centre of England… Is an East Midlands hill an omphalos? Many ancient lands had an acknowledged territorial sacred, symbolical centre or navel, its omphalos, and every country has its optimum geographical centre point which may or may not coincide with it. In some places
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We say that time flies, and sometimes it drags…but there are times, as John Billingsley has found, that it just seems to slip out of place… Time Shifts? Isn’t it funny how time flies, sometimes? Not just when you’re enjoying yourself, necessarily, but also when it seems to have some agenda of its own. Then
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Our series of self-guided walks continues with Taurus (Apr. 22-May.21 approx.). You will need the Ordnance Survey 1:25000 South Pennines map. Please note that routes and their condition were accurate at their time of survey, 2018-2020; updates may be made at later dates. Please be alert to any other Taurean quasi-affirmations as you walk!