by admin | Jan 17, 2024 | Folklore, Queering, Rites of passage
“And again at New Year, when the 12 strokes sound and we make our resolutions ‘I will be good; turn over a new leaf; be made anew’ – we are embodying, even if we do not know it, or perhaps being embodied by, the myth of eternal return; the periodic destruction...
by admin | Oct 31, 2022 | Deathcare, Folklore, Funerals
Some of you will have heard me say this before and so I apologise for repeating myself, but every year at Samhain I find myself sitting-with the premise of the veil between the worlds and each year I can’t help but feel like there’s more to it. The idea that...
by admin | Jul 26, 2022 | Folklore, Uncategorized
I wrote this piece below a while back and it first made its debut on Instagram last year, but the themes in this writing are ones that still delight and intrigue me and so I thought I’d offer it up here too. Recently I have felt like a time-traveller,...
