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Re: Mystical England/British Isles Lore?
« Reply #15 on: June 07, 2012, 04:16:43 am »
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Could just be me - something is giving me grief today, but I can't tell if it's the wet-new version of Firefox that just updated, or the latest NoScript add-on which ditto, or stuff Randall's been tweaking here, or some combination thereof, or what.  (Too much new, all at once, makes it hard to bughunt.)

Thanks for providing an alternative link - hopefully one or the other will work for me, if not immediately, once the renovational dust has settled.

 
The original link crashed Firefox (it did that before, too, even though all I got was the error page!), but the second one was fine.  I'm thinking that the folks at Mozilla, in their haste to comply with their policy of getting new stuff to the user ASAP instead of having it languish in process for months (something I'm usually okay with), released Firefox 13 before it was really ready.  (... 13?  did I miss noticing a release or two?  Or did I somehow - this happened to JFP a while back, too - somehow get on the list for getting the betas instead of the regular upgrades?  That'd explain the grief I'm getting, anyway.)

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Re: Mystical England/British Isles Lore?
« Reply #16 on: June 07, 2012, 11:54:43 am »
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Not sure why.  I just tried it and it worked fine for me.  I've listed it at other sites and no one has remarked on it not working for them.
 
http://www.pauldevereux.co.uk/html/body_leylines.html is what comes up in the address bar at times but that one has errored out on me in the past.  But you might try that one.

Justy a note to add:

I just tried it and both worked fine so hopefully the second one will allow you to see it.

 
Yep, it worked for me too! WOO!
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Re: Mystical England/British Isles Lore?
« Reply #17 on: June 16, 2012, 12:43:38 pm »
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Does anyone have any suggestions for things I could pick up for my bookshelf?

The Modern Antiquarian: A Pre-Millennial Odyssey Through Megalithic Britain by Julian Cope leans more towards the archaeological approach, but is a really good guide to megalithic sites.  If you ever get a chance to attend one of Julian's book signings take it.  He does do speaking tours relatively regularly, but I'm not sure how often he goes further afield than the UK.  (Having worked in a shop where Julian did a signing, I'm biased, because he's a lovely chap.  Easily my favourite author on a personal level.  Along with Graham Norton, who is also adorable.  But I digress).

Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld by Patrick Harpur may be the kind of thing you're after.  It's highly possible you won't agree with his interpretation/philosophical approach, but even without that it's a nice collection of folklore and Fortean events.

Hopefully that's the kind of thing you're after.  As people have said, this is remarkably broad!  If there's any specific areas or eras you're interested in, let me know and I'll see if I can think of anything.
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Re: Mystical England/British Isles Lore?
« Reply #18 on: June 16, 2012, 08:19:31 pm »
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Remember those old Arthur C. Clarke TV shows that talked about ley lines and standing stones and ancient witchery in the British Isles?  

I really, really want to immerse myself in things like that.  Old folklore and divination and supernatural stuff that doesn't necessarily have to be ghostly, but more the magical side of England and the rest of Britain.

Does anyone have any suggestions for things I could pick up for my bookshelf?

Thanks!

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I didn't see that show, no, I'll have to search for it on You Tube... it sounds wonderful!

Can't suggest any books for you, sorry,
but you might like this website  

http://projectbritain.com/year/index.htm

or this one

http://www.britishdowsers.org

or this one

http://www.docrowe.org.uk

and it might interest you to know there's a chap called Simon Costin who is trying to raise money to open a museum of British Folklore.

http://www.museumofbritishfolklore.com

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Re: Mystical England/British Isles Lore?
« Reply #19 on: June 18, 2012, 11:34:40 am »
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The Modern Antiquarian: A Pre-Millennial Odyssey Through Megalithic Britain by Julian Cope leans more towards the archaeological approach, but is a really good guide to megalithic sites.  If you ever get a chance to attend one of Julian's book signings take it.  He does do speaking tours relatively regularly, but I'm not sure how often he goes further afield than the UK.  (Having worked in a shop where Julian did a signing, I'm biased, because he's a lovely chap.  Easily my favourite author on a personal level.  Along with Graham Norton, who is also adorable.  But I digress).

Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld by Patrick Harpur may be the kind of thing you're after.  It's highly possible you won't agree with his interpretation/philosophical approach, but even without that it's a nice collection of folklore and Fortean events.

Hopefully that's the kind of thing you're after.  As people have said, this is remarkably broad!  If there's any specific areas or eras you're interested in, let me know and I'll see if I can think of anything.

 
Sorry for the late reply-- I've been on my honeymoon!  These books both sound very interesting.  I read the reviews for the Daimonic Reality, and was a little iffy about buying it... but the Megalithic Britain looks very promising.
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Re: Mystical England/British Isles Lore?
« Reply #20 on: June 18, 2012, 11:35:04 am »
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I didn't see that show, no, I'll have to search for it on You Tube... it sounds wonderful!

Can't suggest any books for you, sorry,
but you might like this website  

http://projectbritain.com/year/index.htm

or this one

http://www.britishdowsers.org

or this one

http://www.docrowe.org.uk

and it might interest you to know there's a chap called Simon Costin who is trying to raise money to open a museum of British Folklore.

http://www.museumofbritishfolklore.com

If I can think of any more, I'll add them later.


Ooh, thank you! I'm going through those right now.  Sorry for the late reply-- I'd been on my honeymoon!
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Re: Mystical England/British Isles Lore?
« Reply #21 on: June 18, 2012, 05:57:34 pm »
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I'd been on my honeymoon!

 
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Re: Mystical England/British Isles Lore?
« Reply #22 on: June 19, 2012, 04:24:12 pm »
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Congratulations!


Thank you! My husband is actually an Englishman who grew up in Wales! :)

We had a nice secretly pagan wedding on our front lawn. :)
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Re: Mystical England/British Isles Lore?
« Reply #23 on: June 19, 2012, 05:03:13 pm »
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Thank you! My husband is actually an Englishman who grew up in Wales! :)

We had a nice secretly pagan wedding on our front lawn. :)


Well that makes him an honoury Welshman then ;) and I'll say  llongyfarchiadau rather than congratulations!

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Re: Mystical England/British Isles Lore?
« Reply #24 on: June 19, 2012, 06:38:11 pm »
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Ooh, thank you! I'm going through those right now.  Sorry for the late reply-- I'd been on my honeymoon!


You're welcome!  and Congratulations

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