Shropshire's wedding folklore is truly lovely! I've written about it below, maybe it can inspire your special day!
https://nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com/2022/03/when-will-you-be-married-nurse-when-mr.html
#Weddings #Folklore #Shropshire #folktale #History #marriage
A series of free lectures by Professor Ronald Hutton, really worth checking out. I’ve been enjoying them from my sick bed.
Summary: This is the first series of three sets of lectures devoted to the perennial ‘others’ of the European Christian tradition, those phenomena which have always been present as active forces or cultural memories in Christian Europe and which theological orthodoxy has regarded as suspect. The first of the phenomena consists of the pre-Christian religions of Europe, defined in Christian tradition as #paganism. These were suppressed as religious systems at the time of conversion to Christianity but elements of them survived as major components of literature, art and folklore.
#History #Pagan #Gods #fridaymorning #folklore #magic #histodons
The idea of the Wood Wide Web - that trees communicate with each other via a network of symbiotic fungi in their roots - has become increasingly popular over the last few years. But turns out it might be entirely false.
A fascinating read by some of the very people who helped spread that idea in the first place. Now this is science.
https://undark.org/2023/05/25/where-the-wood-wide-web-narrative-went-wrong/
"You need to get out of your comfort zone."
Absolutely not. Never. It took me ages to get into it.
My latest free pdf of poetry