Icy Sedgwick

Folklore & Fantasy Fiction

spirits

Candles and Folklore: Bringing Luck and Casting Spells

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Candles are a common item around the modern home. We use them for emergency lighting during a power cut. Or we light them to alter the mood during a romantic dinner or a pampering bath. They’re also synonymous with magic – think of wishing on your birthday cake or lighting candles for a spell! Today […]

Take a walk along the old Corpse Roads

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Corpse roads might conjure up weird mental images of highways paved with the dead, or possibly byways only used by them. But they’re actually more straightforward than they sound. In days gone by, remote communities often had nowhere nearby to put their dead. Only the churches held burial rights, but they could be miles away […]