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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:News & 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
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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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News & Comment – Stonehenge road scheme; Bluestone quarries identified; Red-faced archaeologist admits mistake; Scottish stone resurrected; Irish folk remedy is anti-bacterial
Article – Woodbury Hill Fair 2
Article – The Legend of Wayland the Smith
Feature – Le Mont de la Ville Dolmen
Feature – The Wincanton Witches
Article – William Barnes and Witchcraft
Reviews – My Orch’d in Linden Lea and other Poems, by William Barnes; The Old Stones: A Field Guide to the Megalithic sSites of Britain and Ireland, Ed. Andy Burnham
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Comment -When the Levee Breaks
News – Pagan Convention Blues; After the Deluge; Government Hampers Stonehenge Project; Lammas Festival 2005
Article – Hardy & Lee Pan the new Wicker Man
Article – Sussex On Fire
Feature – Lammas Festival 2005 Gallery
Feature – Pagan Songs (The Magical Tradition) No. 5: She Moved Through The Fair
Feature – Interview with Leo Ruickbe
Article – The Longstone, Isle of Wight
Reviews – Witchcraft Out of the Shadows by Leo Ruickbe; Stonehenge; A History in Photographs by Julian Richards
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