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The Norse myths are laced with a melancholic focus on the end of an age. Karl Seigfried notes that today it also feels as though a way of living is passing. But just as Ragnarök leads to a rebirth, so too might our own times – if we are willing to work for it.

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The only known footage of Margaret Murray (1863 - 1963), the archaeologist and folklorist who penned The Witch-Cult in Western Europe (1921).

small hours big time out to look for alignments but it's another murky one large cloud with hole go back inside - write "planchette"

27/2/26 - nocturn

Reddish coloured rescue dog standing on a large pile of snow.

Rosie doing her best impression of a noble hound.

Gardening tip while we await the Spring thaw:

Music of the Stones
Christopher Castle

Blue album cover above spinning record.

Julian Cope, ‘Jehovahkill’ (1992; 2018 European reissue). My favorite Cope album — I bought it on CD when it came out.

Illustration from The Willows, a short story by Blackwood, where something only faintly visible moves among the trees

“Ritual is the passage way of the soul into the Infinite.”
—Algernon Blackwood

I hope you enjoy it!

Menhir de Keroulic: This three meter tall lonely stone stands at the entrance to a field near Clohars-Carnoët, Finistère. About 200m further up the road, near the bend is another much smaller stone, also pictured on our page. It is south of the road, about 100 m into the vegetation.

Accurate depiction of me trying to put together our department’s class schedule this week.

Wayland's Smithy from The Ridgeway

Postcard showing Le Trepied Dolmen, Perelle, Guernsey

Composer John Ireland (1879-1962) was inspired to compose ‘Le catioroc’ by Le Trepied Dolmen on Guernsey, where he believed Pan had been worshipped. For Ireland, Pan embodied ‘a world of hidden, forbidden beauty connected with Nature.’

group of men in fancy dress... a lot of them have antlers one has a hobby horse

'The players in the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance'
John Benjamin Stone, ca. 1900

Weychester has a surfeit of haunted doors. Ways through walls that no iron lattice, no amount of locking will prevent phantoms from using. They phase and float through wood, make tunnels across time. Ghosts are not easily shut out. – George Kindred, 'Haunted Hookland', 1970 #Ghosts

I'm named after one of my Acadian uncles, so one of the funny things that happens over on Facebook is that 'Paul Robichaud' comments on posts by 'Paul Robichaud.'

Pan laughing beside a river.

May the blessings of Pan find all magazine editors who ensure their writers are swiftly paid.

🎨 Norman Price

Looking out from Kercado chambered tomb.

The passage tomb at Kercado, near Carnac in Brittany, may have been constructed as early as 5,200 BCE. #TombTuesday

📷Personal photo, July, 2023.

A still from the Twin Peaks pilot, with Dale cooper behind the wheel of his car, talking to his mini-tape recorder, saying: "Diane, 11:30 a.m., February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks."

On February 24th, Agent Dale Cooper arrived in Twin Peaks for the first time.

Orange album cover above spinning record.

Broadcast, ‘Work and Non Work’ (1996). Fantastic compilation of their early recordings.

A shovelled walkway surrounded by snow.

For Connecticut, this was a heavy snowfall and the most snow we’ve had at once in about 12 years. About two feet of snow fell since yesterday and no plows have come by, so we’re pretty much snowed in for now. I’m from Toronto and my wife is from Buffalo, so we’re not unfamiliar with snow!

When restoration of Marlborough 'Merlin Mound' will begin Buildings cut into the side of the 4,000-year-old neolithic monument will be knocked down.

'Merlin Mound' restoration
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A beautiful reddish-blonde dog sleeps on a Hudson’s Bay patterned blanket.

I think Rosie has the right idea on a snowy day.

And Pan made sing for thee his forest-hive;
Aye on the shores of darkness there is light, And precipices show untrodden green.

~John Keats (died #OTD 1821)
🎨Allen Todd Yeager
#bookchatweekly

A view of Stonehenge looking a little giant-like. Personal photo, July 2023.

In her poem 'Salisbury Plains' (1826), Ann Radcliffe invents a new myth for Stonehenge. A Druid removes the teeth of an evil wizard and casts them in a circle on Salisbury Plain, but they turn into giants! Through his magic, the Druid freezes them in place where they stand today. #MythologyMonday

As I was making dinner tonight, I suddenly remembered my one experience with ‘dialect.’ I once told my French teacher that my francophone father said the French for ‘potato’ was ‘patate’ not ‘pomme de terre,’ which he thought was pretentious. The French teacher was not amused!

The green shoots I glimpsed in our garden after a day of rain melted some of the old snow are about to be buried in two feet of new snow!

A sad outcome for the Canadian men’s hockey team, but it was a good game and well-played by the Americans, especially Hellebuyck.

A large fallen menhir in two pieces against a background of blue sky.

The fallen giant named Le Grand Menhir Brisé (c. 4,500 BCE) at Locmariaquer, Brittany was likely aligned with both winter and summer solstices. It would have stood c. 20 meters high, making it the largest known European standing stone. #StandingStoneSunday

📷 June, 2023

Memento Mori
Holyrood Abbey