Ilinca Petran
Sep 16, 2026
The Silence of the Stillhart
A record of hill-country testimony concerning the Stillhart, a stag so still that trees root in its antlers, and of the silence it lays upon those who see it.
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Sep 15, 2026
When the Hunt Rides Overhead
A survey of the Wild Hunt, the storm-borne procession of masked riders and howling hounds that recurs across European folklore as a warning to those still walking the roads below.
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Sep 14, 2026
The Threshold Must Be Guarded
A look at the old European practice of laying salt and iron at doorways to bar witches, spirits and the fae from crossing into the house.
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Aug 22, 2026
The Fox Who Outwitted the Court
A journal entry tracing Reynard the Fox through the medieval beast-epics of France, Flanders and Germany, and asking why a liar became the most beloved animal in European letters.
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Aug 10, 2026
The One Who Sees in Circles
A journey into the mountain country of Sicily and the Peloponnese in search of the Cyclopes — giant shepherds of Greek myth whose single eye may owe less to invention than to a bone in the ground.
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