[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
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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
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
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
Emily’s Malawi Journal – Summer 2005
MALAWI JOURNAL PART ONE It wasn’t really part of the picture in my head of what it would be like to come to Africa: grey skies, frequent rain, sometimes torrential, sometimes just a soft, intermittent drizzle. Shivering beside a one-bar electric heater, wearing two jumpers. Sometimes I have to pinch 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
DREAMS FROM THE END OF THE WORLD : REFLECTIONS ON FASCISM AND OCCULTISM, CULTURAL APPROPRIATION, AND THIS MESS WE’RE IN
It was mid 2019. We were all talking about the End of the World. Like many other people I spoke to, I had been having crazy dreams as well. I had been on a Writer’s Retreat a few months earlier, and while there, overlooking a stormy bay on the West 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