Folk Around & Find Out II - Back in the Habitat - A Folk Magic Panel Discussion

Folk magic and the magic of folklore isn’t just anywhere: it is everywhere. From the herb you hold over your heart in dreaming of a future lover, to the well into which you throw a wishing coin, and from the many witching ways of working a hagstone, to making and keeping allegiances with the various spirits lurking in the bushes and the beyond.

What unites many of these folk magical practices are their interdependences upon the land, upon a wider ecology of living Spirit expressing fundamental interrelationalities of Nature, including humanity’s positive and negative impacts. How the land reminds us who we are and what we have done, and how we may honour and celebrate right relationships.

The all-too-human problems that folk face – both the day-to-day grinds and the acute crises – are faced with spiritual and magical strategies derived from earth, root, leaf, fruit and so on that…