hookland
Phoenix Guide to Strange England: #Hookland. Run by David Southwell
#Hauntology Re-wilding #Folklore #FolkHorror #Psychogeography #LandscapePunk Re-enchantment Is Resistance
- Goodnight from DS Nokes, fearlessly crossing that bit of haunted corridor at Police Headquarters which gives even DI Callaghan the collywobbles. Goodnight from the Crayford family, hiding in the hayloft as the Pale Children creep around their farm. Goodnight from Hookland.
- The tale is still told of the monk and Weaver of the Woods. How he she could not eat him as wore amulets of prayer. How he saw the Tapestry of Trees she embroidered, where time past and time to come were both depicted by her threads. Of course, their union is often glossed over. - #CLNolan
- Often it seems those lonely homes that hold to hills try to keep their heads down, to mind their own business. It’s as if they don’t want the attention of the land upon which they sit. Desire to avoid not only the usual hawkers, but Faery callers, Wish Bloods and Children-Made-of-Thorns. - #CLNolan
- Goodnight from Lucia Hallam, draping all the cottage’s mirrors so her recently deceased mother’s spirit won’t be trapped before tomorrow’s funeral. Goodnight from Great Stovenake Woods, where the land is remembering the screams that only it heard. Goodnight from Hookland.
- It is not enough for a county to have castles in various states of tumbling, it must have haunted castles, cursed castles. Hookland being in the first order of these things goes further. It boasts stone towers which wander, broken-toothed citadels which are only sometimes there. - #CLNolan
- Goodnight from Lavina Hurd, still abuzz with visions after the sonic pomp of Silver Hand in concert at the Brighthaven Coliseum. Goodnight from Madeleine Waller, not sure if the giant sphere of star-white light hovering above the house is a thing of her dreams or real. Goodnight from Hookland.
- The witch walks for feral magics. Her navigations bring dirt to her boots, scratches to her arms. This is the fair and expected cost for use of green temples and filled garnering bags. This is the exchange for wonder, for wild communion. I pay it with joy. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
- While I am an advocate of witch graft, I also believe in a witchery of stillness and listening. For magic is relationships and no good relationship can exist without listening to each other. To be still and hear the song of the stream is an act of witchcraft. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
- As a practitioner and academic, I have always believed in interpreting archaic spells from the cultural and temporal reference point of their casters, not that of some bloke who came up with a fantasy of unbroken magic in 1947. - #EmilyCBanting, 2012 #WitchSky
