[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
Bedtime Stories
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
The Passion of Ceridwen – A Vision
I saw proud Ceridwen, great Queen and Goddess, Long blond curling hair and pale skin, a red dress, Alone in the fort on the lake, an evening of storm and silvery light. Her Lord rode hard to hounds and shouted, far away, Full of the joy of freedom and male Continue Reading
In Search of Lost Time
An Extract from The Hollow Behind the Hearthstone, a novel by Mark Devlin, forthcoming from The Hollow Press, 2021 Taril stood, setting his wine-cup carefully down, and went to the corner where he had leaned his staff. Istorius called Arnauld back, and directed him in moving piles of books and Continue Reading
The Natural Animism of Children
[originally published on Anima Monday, a collective blog about re-enchanting your world (https://animamonday.wordpress.com/) on May 4 2020, by Mark Devlin] The last few years have brought great changes in my life. Nearly six years ago now, my wife and I had our first child, a boy, and three years later, Continue Reading
Josephine and the Witch
[image: Nymphe de l’eau, Wilhelm Kotarbinsky, 1901] Once upon a time, there was an ugly, smelly old witch who lived alone in a murky pond. She got up when she wanted, and went to bed when she felt like it; she had frogs and toads and bats and rats and Continue Reading