threads of the spiderwoman

  Lammas Day  - the first day of August, once observed as the  first  harvest festival , during which bread baked from the first crop of whe...

  It's that time again,  the Autumnal Equinox.  "Equinox" means "equal night", and it is indeed both a very, very an...

John Barleycorn Must Die is a traditional English song - records of its origins go back as far as the 1300s, and it is probably much ...

Somebody recently asked me about "John Barleycorn", and I found myself reflecting on this so ancient and ubiquitous myth .....