It's one thing to forbid the worship of a god, and another to command that it be forgotten. One day I found the oldest tree of all, a black oak bigger than twelve men could encircle with their arms, and I knew it for the one Na called Heart of The Wood. Dolls of twigs and shucks dangled from its branches: right side up to cure barreness, upside down to bring on a miscarriage. Mudwomen had dared to put them there, knowing that if the kingsmen had caught them in the woods out of turn, they might also hang from those branches.

Sarah Micklem

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Making corn dollies under the watchful eye of Mrs Darley was an absolute must for all of us living in the tiny Cornish hamlet on Bodmin Moor.

Carole Carlton

Mots clés pagans paganism samhain beltane carole-carlton mrs-darley pagan-whispers corn-dollies moon-magic mrs-darley-s-pagan-whispers mrs-darley-series-of-books pagan-book bodmin-moor pagan-festivals imbolc irish-celts lughnasadh cornish-customs corn-dolls

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