Tag: halloween
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Samhain and the Cailleach
Cover art by Jurga Creations “I feel the nights stretching away, thousands long behind the days, till they reach the darkness where all of me is ancestor.” Annie Finch Although Halloween was celebrated on the 31st of October, another anciently acknowledged ‘thinning of the veil’ and, for many, the changing of the year, will not…
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The Jack-o’-Lantern, Will-o’-the-Wisp and Ghosts
Cover art by Rob Alexander “They saw a divine virtue in the healing properties of springs and herbs, they felt the presence of a god in the brooding mists, the gloomy thickets, the wildfire that flitted across the sky, the mysterious moonbeans, and the glorious sunrays, the will-o’-the wisps of the swamps, the mountains and…
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Werewolves and Related Folklore
“We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes – something known only to her and to the mountain. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought…
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The Headless Horseman and Related Folklore
“…this sequestered glen has long been known by name of Sleepy Hollow … A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land, and to pervade the very atmosphere.” Washington Irving Cover art “The Headless Horseman” by John Quidor Washington Irving wrote his famous American tale of the headless horseman in the Legend of Sleepy Hollow…