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Interested in The Ceremony of Lating and similar of pre-Christian or early-Christian western European groups (Celtic, Alemannic, et al.) who ritually walked fields with candles or lanterns to purge evil spirits from the farmland. Probably the same grInterested in The Ceremony of Lating and similar of pre-Christian or early-Christian western European groups (Celtic, Alemannic, et al.) who ritually walked fields with candles or lanterns to purge evil spirits from the farmland. Probably the same groups who wassail, but I'm thinking more late autumn rather than midwinter. Might be concomitant with Samhain/All Hallow's, but not picky. Crop fertility over fields with light, anyway....more
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capn_ on LT. :) Introverted. Listopia addict esp. out-of-print forgotten books. Prefers dusty, faded secondhand books, especially obscure ones, due tocapn_ on LT. :) Introverted. Listopia addict esp. out-of-print forgotten books. Prefers dusty, faded secondhand books, especially obscure ones, due to aversion to all marketing and hype. Founded Forgotten Vintage Children's Lit. We Want Republished! Catalogues all known Mabel Esther Allan titles in foreign languages with their corresponding original work. Currently enjoying second childhood and reading mid-century kid-lit. <3 Dark is Rising Sequence; The Song of Wirrun; Alan Garner; Penelope Lively; Joan North,...! Currently promoting my Primary School Puzzlers Listopia list - check out some old-school family-wide interactive content during a Digital Detox. Reading outside of the current publication cycle is always a good move. You can learn much about human beings and cultural fads and norms by reading older books, too, and secondhand books are eco-friendly. :) And cheap. Did I mention cheap? Cheap is good.
