Where the Map Ends
The Serpent at the Chart's Edge
A journal account of Jörmungandr, the Midgard Serpent of Norse myth, whose coils were said to ring the inhabited world and whose shadow lingers at the margins of old sea-charts.
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Where the Rivers Keep Their Dragon
A journal entry on the long, the rain-bringing river dragon of Chinese folklore, and its long pursuit of the flaming pearl.
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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 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.
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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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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.
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Jul 31, 2026
The Stones That Remember
A journal account of Britain and Scandinavia's rune-carved standing stones, and the old belief that they mark ground where the living and the fairy world touch.
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Jul 30, 2026
The Serpent That Eats the Moon
In the central and southern Philippines, a great sea serpent is still said to rise and swallow the moon, and the old defence against it — drums, gongs, pots beaten in the dark — has not entirely gone quiet.
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Jul 28, 2026
The Nine-Tailed Fires
A visit to the vermillion gates of Fushimi Inari leads into the older, wilder lore of the kitsune: the fox spirit whose age is counted in tails and whose lanterns still walk the mountain roads at night.
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Jul 28, 2026
Where the Antlers Keep Watch
A journey from a weathered Gallo-Roman pillar in Paris to the tree lines of Britain, tracing the scattered evidence for Cernunnos, the antlered god who guards the border between the human world and the wild.
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