Still Contending With McCone’s Anti-Nativist Take 30 Years Later
“At all events, research of this type needs to be carried out with more sophistication and less wishful thinking than have commonly been brought to…
When Looking For Experts
“The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but…
Finding Fairies
Cover art and all art by Leonora Carrington Recently, I was documenting a strange experience told to me by a local man who couldn’t quite…
Excitement is the Best Magic
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to…
The Amadán: A Fairy of Danger?
“It is a very good thing not to be any way in dread of the fairies, for without doubt they have then less power over…
The Spiral Nature of Humans
“You can never make it back to where you began, you can only ever climb another turn of the spiral stair. Forever.” Marcus Sedgwick Cover…
Radical Honesty: An Idea That Irrevocably Set Me Free in Relationships
“There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true…
Summer Solstice and Midsummer Folklore
“If you go out for several hours into a place that is wild, your mind begins to slow down, down, down. What is happening is…
Speaking About Irish Paganism Creates Irish Paganism
“Most of the knowledge that gets through this process is reduced to basic content, artifacts, resources, and data, divided into foreign categories to be stored…
The Silent Knowing: Human Intuition and Trusting Our Inner Voice
“Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.” Florence Scovel Shinn Cover art and all art by Gustav Klimt…
A Bealtaine Fairy Abduction
“The magic of fairies has always been bound up with stealing.” Susanna Clarke Cover art and all art by Arthur Rackham I wanted to draw…
Learning Things by Heart
“Memory is the scribe of the soul.” Aristotle All art by Helen Allingham Memorising is a traditional bardic skill and it’s a wonderful thing to…