Where the Map Ends

Oct 1, 2026

The Keeper of Unwalked Roads

A journal account of the Lantern Man, the Dartmoor light said to lead travellers off finished roads and onto ones that never were, at a cost few agree on.

Sep 29, 2026

The Century Walk of the Green Man

An account of the Green Man, Britain's foliate-headed spirit of the greenwood, and the local legend of his once-a-century Greenwalk through orchard, field and oak.

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.

Sep 5, 2026

The Worm in the Mound

A journal entry on the wyrm, the serpent-dragon of Norse and British tradition that coils through barrows, rivers and the roots of the world tree, always keeping close to buried gold.

Sep 1, 2026

The Bough He Carried Instead

A look at the holly bough carried by the Green Knight in the Middle English romance, the small green sign that turned an armed intruder's arrival into something closer to a game than a threat.

Aug 30, 2026

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.

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.

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.

Aug 16, 2026

The Bells Under Dunwich

A record of Dunwich, the medieval Suffolk port swallowed by the sea, and the enduring claim that its church bells can still be heard tolling beneath the waves during storms.

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.

Aug 3, 2026

The Face That Grows Leaves

A record of the foliate heads carved into English and Welsh churches, and the strange, still-unsettled question of what — or who — they were made to represent.

Aug 1, 2026

The Fire That Must Not Go Out

A journal entry on the old, near-universal duty of keeping a fire alive through the night, from the Vestal flame in Rome to the smoored peats of the Scottish Highlands.