Three stories from the folklore of Britain — Cornwall, Scotland, and Wales — and the insistence that runs beneath them all: that summer does not simply arrive on its own. The deep history of Beltane is thinner than we might wish. The sources are fragmentary and sometimes contested, and the ancient origins people often sense…
There is a place I keep returning to in my mind. It is the edge of a field — the point where the mown grass ends, where the hedgerow begins, where the path leads out into something older and less certain. It is a threshold. A place of becoming. That feeling, of standing at the…