Reposted by Northern Earth
This fab journal is out again, and I'm happy they included my muse about fairy doors in this issue.
Northern Earth
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Quarterly, (inter)national print journal of people, places & experiences: landscape, folklore, archaeology, psychogeography, neoantiquarianism, b.1979. Edited by @chapmanbookman.bsky.social northernearth.co.uk
![Photograph of the first half of a magazine review which reads:
This short book has a strange allure about it. It wonderfully evokes a timeless feeling of mythic time. In these pages you will find stories of Merlin, Godiva, werewolves and Albina and her 33 sisters and the founding of Albion. But this is not just a retelling of well-known medieval legends.
The first chapter, 'In the beginning was the end', starts off with a creation story involving snakes at Canley near Coventry. The final chapter neatly mirrors the first, 'In the end was the beginning', which has a strong environmental message for the future. There is a strong sense not just in this chapter, but in others, that we have drifted into the wasteland by disconnecting from the myths of the land. It's this hard to pin down essence that gives the book a dreamlike 'otherworldly' feel.
There are also modern stories, which...
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