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Stephen G. Rae, contemporary artist;
Druid, poet & storyteller; folklorist and writer @BardCumberland; indie filmmaker @LandofLoreFilms @BardseaGrnFilms
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Visited this atmospheric old tannery near Haverthwaite whilst looking for film locations with .
It's accessible to the public, just don't disturb the barn owl that lives next door.

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Just sitting down with a cuppa to read "Witchcraft in Lancashire" by Kathleen Eyre.
Tales of 'Bessie the house-breaker', 'Chattox and her Brood', the 'Demdikes of Malkin Tower'.

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The salmon is perhaps the most sacred of all creatures in the Druid tradition - the Salmon of Wisdom. It also appears in Irish and Welsh legend, in the Vedas, in Hinduism and Buddhism, but also in Babylonian and Sumerian mythology. 

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It's National Poetry Day today. Here's a five-sequence I wrote while in Pakistan in 2000.

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Wishing everyone a merry Lughnasadh

Also known as or First Harvest. The grain is cut, part of it goes into nutrition, another part is stored to be used as seeds next spring. The God of the harvest is the Green Man, also known as John Barleycorn.

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. - folk tales, legends, mythology, and other strange tales from Cumberland and beyond - Bele Sheephead

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With this week's on the theme of legendary creatures from the woods. How about the Ginger Beast of Beckermet, the Cumbrian Yeti.

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The 'Child Ballads' are 305 traditional ballads from England and Scotland, anthologized by Francis James Child during the 19th century.

Illustration by Arthur Rackham of Child Ballad 26, "The Twa Corbies"

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Coming to the Rescue, Slowly - Pedro X. Molina

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