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Divination by the book

There is an ancient art of divination knows as bibliomancy…divination by books. It has been around a long time…the I Ching, the Chinese Book of Changes, has been in use for at least three thousand years, and who knows how … Continue reading

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Tell-Tale Signs III… Stuart France

* ‘Brown, Black, Grey and Red, All men and women end up dead.’ It seems to me that this rather macabre Fionn tale, adapted from a collection made by Jeremiah Curtin and first published under the title, ‘Myths and Folk-Lore … Continue reading

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“Asmodaius…

* …Bearer of Time Gnomon of Eternity You must have seen a thing or two During your torturous sojourn… How best can we understand our predicament?” Continue reading at Stuart France

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Tell-Tale Signs II… Stuart France

* … A very different Fionn tale (to give him his correct nomenclature), adapted from one of Ella Young’s re-tellings. The full cycle of tales from which this one is drawn are available in, The Tangle Coated Horse, and although … Continue reading

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Tell-Tale Signs… Stuart France

* …There is lots of real depth in this little story. It is culled from the pages of, ‘Folk Tales of the British Isles’ and is full of that rare and ever dwindling commodity known as Folk Wisdom. This re-telling … Continue reading

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Carrot and Coals IX… Stuart France

* …On the screen of inner sight a single glowing point of light that seems farther than the farthest star, yet closer than the sun. Between her and the light nothing but the streaks of passage… a stream of movement, … Continue reading

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Carrot and Coals VIII… Stuart France

* …A hand extended, smiling eyes unseen but felt. She takes the hand, stiff after the long vigil in the chill of night, accepting assistance to regain her feet. The grass is cold, frost biting her bare toes. Above, a … Continue reading

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Carrot and Coals VII… Stuart France

* The stone is warm beneath her back. Above her the clear blue of the sky is powdered with clouds, barely moving. It is sheltered here in the circle, the earthen banks of the henge protecting the centre from the … Continue reading

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Carrot and Coals VI… Stuart France

* …The key to Arbor Low is to regard the stones as always having been laid flat. That way they immediately begin to speak and the first thing they say has to do with time. Wen ‘got’ a clock-face and … Continue reading

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State of Persons… Stuart France

* If a person Fails to stand In right relation To story… * Continue reading here

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