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
Folklore Diary – a four monthly guide
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Comment – Of Angels & Baguettes – public art and ancient sites
News – Stonehenge was ‘London of the Mesolithic’; Ancient Iron Rod was Viking ‘Witch Wand’; Farewell to Freya; ‘New’ Dartmoor Stone Circle Uncovered; Scottish ‘Wishing Tree’ Investigated.
Article – A Holy Sea-fort – St Catherine’s Chapel, Dorset.
Poem – The Old Witch-Hare
Feature – John Cowper Powys’s A Glastonbury Romance
Article – Who was Saint George?
Reviews – Of Sirens and Centaurs: Medieval Sculpture at Exeter Cathedral by Alex Woodcock; The Magus of Hay by Phil Rickman; Lord of the Silver Hand by Gerald Killingworth; The Witches’ Herbal by Michael Howard; The Ceremony of May by Rose & Garry Blakeley (CD); The Liberty to Choose by James Findlay, Bella Hardy, Brian Peters, Lucy Ward (CD)
Folklore Diary & Events – Your guide for the next quarter
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Comment – What Gloom & Doom?; One For the Birds; Rapturous
News – Stonehenge Vandals Damage Heelstone; Sussex Chieftain’s Grave; Did the Romans Restore Stonehenge?; Shave the Monkey Reform; New Weymouth festival; Lammas Festival; Bikers Vandalise Hill-fort
Article – Jack-in-the-Green
Feature – The Magical Tradition – The Elfin Knight
Article – The First Pagan Revival
Article – The Nine Stones, Dorset
Reviews – The Gods Within by Jean Williams & Zachary Cox; Firechild: The Life and Magic of Maxine Sanders; Lost Islands by Kevan Manwaring; The Cauldron Born (CD) by Damh the Bard
Feature – Sacred Sites in Danger
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Comment – What Have we Done to the Rain?; A Salutory Tale
News – Lammas Festival Latest; Stonehenge Solstice; seamus; Odinists Win Discrimination Case; Secret Art Collection Now Available
Article – The Pipes of Pan
Article – The Greenstone Part 2, by Ralph Harvey
Article – The Book of Shadows Decoded, by Barry Bow
Article – Culbone Church & Stone, Somerset
Feature – Pagan Songs No. 8: – Jack-in-the-Green
Reviews – Mary Magdalene by Jan MacDonald; Spirals by Geoff Ward; Taliesin’s Travels by Michael Dames; The Smile of a Ghost by Phil Rickman; Circle Dancing by June Watts;
Poem – My Cosmic Order by Sally Erridge
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Comment – loony About Tunes
News – Threat to Lammas Festival; US Wiccan Group Muscle in on Hastings Jack-in-the-Green Festival; Witchcraft Museum Reopens at Easter; Harry Potter & the Vatican; British Minerva Discovered
Article – Folk Britannia, by Joe Stead; The greenstone, by Ralph Harvey
Article – Fernworthy Stone Circle
Poem – A Wiltshire Tale by Nick Harper
Feature – Pagan Songs No. 7: – The Two Musicians
Reviews – The Revenge of Gaia by James Lovelock; Somerset Cider Folklore & Customs by Jon Dathen; The Firehills by Steve Alton; Explore Phantom Black Dogs by Bob Trubshaw; Solitary Eclectic Witchcraft by Liz Pulley; Cowboys for Christ by robin Hardy; The Moon Garden by Wendy Mewes
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Comment – The State we’re In
News – New Light on Stonehenge; Folk on the Net; Silbury Mound Repairs; Witchcraft Museum; Witch Doctored in time for Halloween; Quote of the year (by Brian Eno).
Song – Christmas Time is Pagan
Article – Saints & demons – an Incomplete History of Carnival Giants
Short Story – The strong-room
FeaturePagan Songs No. 6: Tom of Bedlam
Reviews – Explore Fairy Traditions by Jeremy Harte; Labyrinth by Kate Mosse; Treasure Island by Nick Harper (CD); Seahenge by Charlie Watson
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