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News & Comment – The end of Trumpism; Vandalism at Somerset Long Barrow; Plastic Age Hillfort; Stonehenge’s Acoustics
Article – Bindon Abbey – The Boy Monk and the Water Nymph
Article – Gobannus- the Celtic Smith God
Feature – William Sharp, Fiona MacLeod & Victorian neopaganism
Article – Some Holy Wells in Dorset Part 2
Review – Help the Witch by Tom Cox
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ContentsNews & Comment – Tunnel Vision – Stonehenge; Campaign to pardon witches; HS2 witch graffiti; Sutton Hoo era cemetery found; New Forest circle investigated
Article – Gwen Ffrangçon-Davies, Thomas Hardy, Rutland Boughton and The Immortal Hour
Feature – Is Cadbury Camelot?
Article – Riding the Skimmington
Article – Some Dorset Holy Wells (part 1)
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Contents
News & Comment – Strange times; A silent Beltane; Doll Tor vandalised; Chieftain and shaman graves found Discoveries
Feature – Roche Rock and the Legend of Jan Tregeagle
Article – ‘And one by one dropped the revellers’ – Dancing with the Devil in Poe, Hardy and M.R. James by Dr Tracy Hayes
Article – Amr’s Tomb by Eric L. Fitch
Article – A Dorset Harvest Home
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News & Comment – A Climate of Activism; Plea to record tree graffiti; Second Pocklington chariot burial found; Bluestones being robbed; Iron Age grave discoveries
Article – The Dragon of Christchurch
Feature – Dorset Fairy Folklore
Article – Lundy Rocks
Article – Kartof the Fiddler
Reviews - Christmas Frolics – The Mellstock Band; Beauty of Blackmore – John Blackmore
Folklore Guide – a four-monthly guide
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ContentsNews & Comment – May Day Madness; 2019 Lammas Festival cancelled; Hunters Moon Morris bow out; Vandalism at West Kennet
Article – A Holloway in Dorset
Article – Magnis Roman Town, Alfred Watkins & Folklore
Feature – Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native
Article – Midsummer Fires
Reviews – A Little Celebration of the Green Man by Karen Cater
Folklore Diary – a four monthly guide
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ContentsNews & Comment – The Magic of Science; Oceanus in Hampshire; Rude Man of Dorset’s Test Results bring Surprises
Article – The Bideford Witches
Article – Merlin & Morgana – THe Myth and the Magic
Article – The Celtic Prayer of Women
Feature – Pan in Neo-Pagan Fiction 1880-1918 part 1
Article – A Dorset Wishing Well
Reviews – The Wheel of the Year Tarot by Yvonne Muckle; Gods, Ghosts and Goblins – Folklore and Beyond by Eric Fitch
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News & Comment – Myth and Reality; Stonehenge’s Welsh Connection; Bumper crop for archaeologists
Article – Dorchester’s Ghosts
Article – Wayland’s Smithy
Feature – Woodbury Hill Fair
Feature – Revd R.S. Hawker – the Mystic of Morwenstow
Reviews – Revealing the Green Man, by Mark Olly; Bees vs People, Chris Slade
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Contents:Comment – Merry Meet’s new look
News – Brimham Rocking stone toppled; Nightjawks loot Hadrian’s Wall; Tintagel: Scribe’s slate found.
Article – Toppling Logan Rock
Feature – The White Horse of Uffington
Article – An etymological folktale by Eric Fitch
Poem – A Green Thought by Katharine Towers
Article – Exploring two lost Dorset villages
Reviews - The Green Hedge Witch by Rae Beth; Charms, Amulets, Talismans and Spells by Marian Green
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Comment – Merry Meet is Changing
News – Archaeological ‘Bad Practise’ in Somerset; Roman ‘Healing Dog’ found in Gloucestershire; Yorkshire Woodhenge Discovered; Possible Human Sacrifice in Somerset
Feature – Thomas Hardy’s Ghosts
Song – Yuletide in a Younger Time
Feature – The Devil’s Den
Article – Montem Mound Update by Eric Fitch
Article – A Maiden’s Grave
Article – The Giant’s Grave
Poem – The Paphian Ball by Thomas Hardy
Reviews - Pagan’s Progress – a Ge-Ography Primer by Michael Dames; A Dance with Hermes by Lindsay Clarke
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Comment – Tunnel Vision – the plans for Stonehenge
News – Archaeologists discover earliest-known sacred sit still in use; mapping Britain’s folklore; Odinists claim churches; vandalism at Clava Cairns.
Feature – The Magic of Hares
Article – Purgatory Fields- by Eric Fitch
Feature – Merrivale Ritual Complex
Article – The Giant’s Grave
Reviews - Witchcraft – A Hereditary Tradition by Jon Dathen; The Way into Faerie by Rae Beth
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Comment – Pagan Heritage post-Brexit
News – Barge Inn under threat; Narrow escape for Kersey Puddingstone; Neolithic Temple at Ness of Brodgar; Dark Age Palace at Tintagel
Article – Following the Old Dog – the West Country’s 4th ‘Oss by Mark Norman
Feature – The Treasures of Whitcombe
Article – Crowley at Piccadilly
Article – Burrow Mump
Reviews – Doreen Valiente, Witch by Philip Heselton; Black Dog Folklore by Mark Norman
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Comment – Pagan Heritage Destroyed
News – Dave Swarbrick obituary; giant beer censored; English Heritage ‘vandalism’ at Tintagel; Police warning on Solstice at Avebury
Article – Following the Old Oss
Article - The Songline of LLeu, by Laurence Main
Feature -The Fairlop Oak
Article – Paganism in the Workplace, by Lee Smith
Reviews - King Arthur’s Camlan by Laurence Main; The House of Susan Lulham by Phil Rickman
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Comment – Dorchester Archaeology Saved (for now); Merry Meet in Shops
News – Michael Howard (1948-2015); Terry Pratchett (1948-2015); Mystery Bronze Age Enclosure in Devon; Anglo-Saxon Leechbook Remedy Kills MRSA; Peterborough’s Pompeii
Article – Abbotsbury Garland Day
Article - Fate and the Norse Gods by Eric Fitch
Feature - In the Footsteps of a Wizard – John Cowper Powys in Dorchester
Article – Baring Gould’s Chairs
Article – The Devil’s Quoits
Reviews – The Lost Book of Fleams by Kate Aimson; Friends of the Dusk by Phil Rickman
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Comment – Stonehenge – Should exclusion be reintroduced?
News – ITV commissions Merrily Watkins Drama, Glastonbury temple licensed for weddings, Tarr Steps featured on new stamp, Traces of new stone avenue found at Avebury.
Article – Woden and England, by Eric Fitch
Article - Campaign to save Dorchester’s archaeology
Feature - The Lost Stone Circles of Dorset Part 3
Article – The legend of the dog Gelert
Reviews - Listening to the Stones by Beatrice Walditch; Night After Night by Phil Rickman
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Comment – Archaeology and Commerce – a Case Study
News – Stonehenge survey; Ancient Sethian Magical Papyrus Translated; Norfolk Doorstop was Offering to the Gods; Pagan Blue Plaques.
Article – An Old Mummer at the Chequers, Wheeler End
Article - King Arthur, Warlords Wizardry, History and Prophecy
Feature - The Lost Stone Circles of Dorset Part 2
Article – The Twelve Days of (a Dorset) Christmas
Reviews - Wassailing – Reawakening an Ancient Folk Custom by Colin & Karen Kater; The Shortest Day – A Little Book of the Winter Solstice by Karen Kater; Mumming Plays in Hardy’s Wessex by Jerry Bird
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