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                                     Who was John Barleycorn?  Why was this ancient and ubiquitous myth such a lasting folklore and folk mus...

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

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

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

Here's what Sig recently wrote on his Blog about Imbolc.    Time to begin to germinate those seeds!  Thanks Sig!     "I...