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Category Archives: Magic & the Supernatural
Echoes of War
My mind is still reeling from watching the commemorations to mark one hundred years since the end of The Great War. I don’t believe that it’s possible not to be moved by the pictures and stories that were paraded before … Continue reading
Ghost Finder – Half a Century of Hauntings
A few weeks ago, a chance conversation with a friend of mine somehow reminded me of a fearful, otherworldly encounter that I experienced when I was about eight years old, around half a century ago in an unremarkable house in … Continue reading
Posted in Dead Poets, Magic & the Supernatural
Tagged Black Shuck, Bungay, Dreams, Hauntings, The Magic of the Mind
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A Pilgrimage for Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A few days ago, I drove to the small town of Ottery St Mary, just five miles or so from my secluded home in a quiet, rural part of Devon. I parked close to the outskirts, then made my leisurely … Continue reading
The Heresy of Stonehenge and the Mesolithic
A few days ago, I came across an observation in a lengthy essay in The Guardian that was so good and so insightful that I still find it hard to believe it had not been made long ago, or … Continue reading
Oliver Cromwell and September the Third
Of all the figures from previous ages that I admire, Oliver Cromwell must be the one that comes to my mind most regularly, almost certainly because of what is to me his unforgettable date of death. This man died on … Continue reading
Posted in Dead Poets, Magic & the Supernatural, Writing
Tagged Oliver Cromwell, September 3rd
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The Dark Magic of the Msoura Ring
“As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick In the north of Morocco, in the countryside south of Tangier, is an … Continue reading
Posted in Antiquities, Magic & the Supernatural, Stonehenge, Writing
Tagged Andrew Gough, Antaeus, Garden of Hesperides, Giants, Morocco, Msoura Ring, Sertorius, Stonehenge, Tangier
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The Forgotten Fairy Origins of “Eldritch”.
I have been familiar with the word ‘eldritch’ for decades, as a result of seeing it appear in the incomparable works of the horror fantasy writer H.P. Lovecraft. Knowing Lovecraft’s fondness for what most people today would consider to be … Continue reading
Posted in Antiquities, Language, Magic & the Supernatural
Tagged Caer Sidhe, Eldritch, Fairies, H.P. Lovecraft, Silbury Hill, Stonehenge
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The Fox’s Daylight Blessing
For several years, when I’ve sat outside my back door after dark, gazing up the length of my rambling garden into the long grass and the shadows around the distant outbuildings, I’ve often been visited by a fox, meetings I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs, Magic & the Supernatural, Mourning
Tagged Blessings, Coincidence, Fox, Synchronicity
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The Moonlandingz
A few nights ago, I drove down to Exmouth at midnight, a leisurely journey along deserted, switchback roads that took something like twenty-five minutes, although I must admit that’s a guess, as I wasn’t paying attention to the passing of … Continue reading
The Shallows’ Heartfelt Chime
I do not feel as if I have the weight of the world on my shoulders, but I try to take a regular interest in current affairs, so it follows that there should be occasions when the news is not … Continue reading
Posted in Magic & the Supernatural
Tagged Arcadia, Blueboy, Et In Arcadia Ego, Music, Otherworld, Water
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