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Sep 26, 2026
The Hare Who Answers the Moon
An account of the old Chinese belief that the wild hare conceives by gazing at the moon, and its uneasy kinship with the tame Jade Rabbit of legend.
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Aug 30, 2026
Where the Whistlers Fly
On the old English belief in the Seven Whistlers, the unseen birds whose calls marked the boundary between the known road and the country beyond it, and on what the blank edges of old maps once meant to those who had to cross them.
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Aug 26, 2026
Lykos and the Hollow Wood
A journal entry on Lykos, the guardian wolf said to haunt the last old-growth remnants of the English wildwood, and the folk memory that keeps him there long after real wolves were gone.
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Aug 19, 2026
The Hare That Watches the Moon
A look at the moon-gazing hare of British and Celtic folklore, from Boudicca's battlefield augury to the shapeshifting hare-witches of the northern trials.
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Aug 15, 2026
The Bird That Watches the Fall
A journal entry on the raven as a death-omen in British and Celtic tradition, from the ravens kept at the Tower of London to the corpse-bird of the Welsh Marches and the war-goddesses who wore black feathers over the battlefield.
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Aug 4, 2026
The Crane That Carries Souls
In the snow-fields of Hokkaido, the red-crowned crane is read as more than a bird: a creature of thousand-year age, marital constancy, and passage between the living and the dead.
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Aug 2, 2026
The Stone That Turns Three Ways
A visit to Newgrange and its carved triple spiral, and an honest reckoning with how much of what we say about the symbol is memory and how much is invention.
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