A witch's altars are often peculiar, particular and an intimate reflection of her relationship with the spirits of place. A fallen tree or post of a long-vanished gate are as powerful as any over-candled table dressed with a gaudy cloth. – #EmilyBanting , 1982 #WitchWednesday

The witch walks the wood and learns. She learns gossip and grievance from trees, is tutored in an intimate language of feral signs heralding tomorrow. Her eyes teach places of harvest, the subtle turning of the year. No step refuses wisdom. – #EmilyBanting , 1982 #WitchWednesday

Fields pull on their green gowns. Trees wear blossom finery. The land is singing the song of high spring. We walk the ways and travel the mysteries of the turning year. For a short time, hope becomes our companion and all our magics turn to joy. –  #EmilyBanting , 1982

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For now May Eve's bonefires are riddling ash and the blood of the land is felt much closer to surface. May Day is here. The pulse of place cannot be denied and nor can the invitation to dance with its wild spirits. – #EmilyBanting , 1982 #Beltane #WitchWednesday

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One of the most important learnings of witchcraft is a listening of the land. Where is its song loudest? Sweetest? Which trees talk with sonorous voices? Which trees tell you secrets that you cannot ignore? The witch's inner ears are mighty. – #EmilyBanting , 1982 #Witchcraft

The magics of hodology are not undone by a force as weak as tarmacadam. Enchantment is not disrupted by giving an old path a hard surface. The long memory of the land remains. – #EmilyBanting

The salt hag has a secret map of the coast. She knows coven coves, rocks regarded as neutral territory between land and King-Under-the-Sea's tidal teeth. She knows the spirits of cliff, the best places to harvest yarrow for turning her blood. –   #EmilyBanting   #WitchWednesday

Hookland And mine, Emily. 💚
A place of meeting in spirit.
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Der Weg der Hexe durch den Wald ist ein Lauschen auf die Lieder der tausend Bäume. Der Weg der Hexe durch den Wald ist ein verschlungener Tanz mit Geistern, die die Geheimnisse des Ortes in ihr Herz schreiben. EmilyBanting, 1981

'For the witch knows the margins. Not because she has any belief in the alleged cool of the edge like some posing teenager, but because she has a historic relationship to exclusion and a keen ear to hearing the whispers of the neglected places.'
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Hookland They visit the spaces between earth and sky.
Cunning folk see the unseen.
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And both watch over each other #EmilyBanting #Hookland

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