[read Part I – The Forge here : https://thehollowbehindthehearthstone.com/leabhar-liath-na-haimide-part-one-the-forge/ ] [read Part II – The Ruins here : https://thehollowbehindthehearthstone.com/leabhar-liath-na-haimide-part-two-the-ruins/ ] [read Part III – The Vow here :https://thehollowbehindthehearthstone.com/leabhar-liath-na-haimide-part-three-the-vow/ ] ADVENT : SOMETHING IS COMING – 1 December 2020 AND SO that was the End of Spring. Bealtaine. And then two Continue Reading
LEABHAR LIATH NA HAIMIDE PART THREE – THE VOW
[read Part I – The Forge here : https://thehollowbehindthehearthstone.com/leabhar-liath-na-haimide-part-one-the-forge/ ] [read Part II – The Ruins here : https://thehollowbehindthehearthstone.com/leabhar-liath-na-haimide-part-two-the-ruins/ ] I MAKE MY VOW – 29 April 2020 SO… it’s two weeks since then, and I have not had a clear sign, but neither have I maybe been open and Continue Reading
LEABHAR LIATH NA HAIMIDE PART TWO – THE RUINS
[read Part I – The Forge here : https://thehollowbehindthehearthstone.com/leabhar-liath-na-haimide-part-one-the-forge/ ] THE ROOM IN THE RUINS – Witching Hour, 29 March 2020 I went there just now. The hairs on my back are still raised, I feel a feverish tingle through my chest, my heart races. Since I came back from Continue Reading
LEABHAR LIATH NA HAIMIDE : PART ONE – THE FORGE
29 March 2020 Thus begins Leabhar Liath na hAimide, the Grey Book of the Witch-Fool. I am living in the Forge now, among the ruins of the Once-Château in Aquitaine: the Lost Domaine. The Plague has struck, and we have fled to this refuge. In this house, in this place Continue Reading
WHEN DID YOU REALISE THAT IT WAS POSSIBLE TO BELIEVE?
BY FELIX ADDISON Was there a particular moment or was it more like a process? Bits and pieces coalescing until you became conscious that there was another way to think about the world? Or was it always there in a way? That word and will can change the world, that Continue Reading
THE POTION AND THE POISON
I have always been interested, as an artist and writer, in inspiration. Where does it come from? What is its nature? Why is it such a fickle friend at times? One of the old stories most intimately connected to the idea of inspiration is the tale of the birth of Continue Reading
PATRON DEITIES – THE ELDER GODS OF IRELAND, AND HOW TO MEET THEM IN THESE LATER DAYS
The concept of a Patron Deity is more or less a modern one, and suits contemporary Paganism because the relationship tends to be an individual, solitary, private dynamic rather than a community-based public practice. It is not without precedent though. I tend to look to the Medieval Irish culture of Continue Reading
THE SORCERY OF BEAUTY
There is an omnipresent temptation to claim that everything is magic, to believe that everything is a spell being woven by the world, reality itself a net to ensorcell the mind and enchant our steps. There may be some truth to this. There is also an inconvenient reality that ruins Continue Reading
GRIGOMERE, ORTGEIST, AND KAIROTOPE – ON THE SPIRIT OF PLACE, BEGOTTEN AND MADE
THIS MUST BE THE PLACE This must be the place. Ah yes. Where the River turns and the mist rises On one side there are fields of vines And on the other the hills rise to the Wild Wood And the Tumulus of the Druids Here in the River Bend Continue Reading
In Defence of Brandon Sanderson: Fantasy Literature of Immersion and Accessibility
Discussion among Fantasy afficionado friends and colleagues today brought to light a very mean-spirited and mealy-mouthed profile story from Wired Magazine, by a certain Jason Kehe, about an author who is unbelievably successful, but about whom even some fans of Fantasy literature may not know much. At first it came Continue Reading