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Fiction and Poetry
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A Cunning Person’s Poetry Apothecary / by Maryam Elen Jones
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The Cunning people were practitioners of folk medicine, folk magic and divination throughout Europe from the Middle Ages onwards.
Illiterate and impoverished, these folk have vanished into the past, and left few records. To the modern ear, cunning sounds like a negative attribute, a kind of sneaky intelligence that no one wants to have.
This book is a magic speculation, and a balm, born out of my own cunning: the low, sneaky spit-in-the-butter kind that has helped me survive to the present day.
I hope it speaks to you, and activates your own cunning.
About the Author: Elen Jones is an artist and writer living in the UK. She is the author of Voices of the Dark Mother oracle deck, and her work can be found on Instagram and Facebook under the name Spiral Priestess.
Regenerator / by Brigid Burke (A Morrigan Timelines Book)
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Iain James meets Layla Black when she is only thirteen. Rationally speaking, everything about being involved with her is wrong, from her age to her careless attitudes about love and commitment. Still, Iain feels that he can’t live without her, to a degree that is hard to understand. Their fragile union falls apart, and he is devastated when she leaves him. After a failed attempt to take his own life, Iain slowly rebuilds, meeting and marrying Elaine Harris and having four children. But Layla is not out of the picture. Unexplainable events and violent nightmares suggest that there is more to Iain’s love than he—or Layla—could have imagined.
Project Lethe / by Brigid Burke (A Morrigan Timelines Book)
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Malcolm Black spirals into depression after his estranged daughter Layla goes missing. Concurrently, a young woman named Sidonie Duncan wakes up in a Glasgow hospital after a car crash with amnesia. Sidonie recovers and ends up working in an art gallery as well as making her own art, which leads her to working on a project in Los Angeles. There she meets Mark Ryland, and her life feels like it could not be more perfect, in spite of her dark dreams that may or may not represent her forgotten past. However, a chance meeting with musician Steve Abbott brings everything crashing down, as he is able to identify who she really is, and exposes the car crash story as a lie. Sidonie and Mark now are under pressure to find out how and why she lost her memory, a journey that threatens to unravel Sidonie and destroy their relationship.
Medb (a novella) / by Brigid Burke
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Synopsis: Singer Dan Sampson and his wife Theodora suddenly divorce after twenty years of happy marriage for no apparent reason, leaving Theodora devastated and his friends mystified. Three months later Dan has married another woman, Morgan, who is the opposite of Theodora in almost every way. In their new home in England, they have employed a housekeeper called Medb. Medb appears to have a strange relationship with Dan and Morgan, and is the subject of terrible nightmares for Theodora and some of Dan’s friends. Together they try to find out who-or what-Medb is, suspecting she is connected to Morgan, an admitted magician. However, they don’t realize that Dan has a secret past of his own.
The Morrigan Timelines / by Brigid Burke
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Synopsis: The year is 2022, and historian Mila Fell is documenting a strange battle that took place a year earlier–one that obviously happened and never happened. The strange events center around a woman called Layla Black, who seems to have lived two entirely different lives, and who also appears to be an embodiment of the ancient war goddess, the Morrigan. In one lifetime, the Morrigan is fixated on Steve Abbott, a singer whose ancestor was cursed by the Morrigan hundreds of years earlier, a curse that needs to be ended by Steve. In the second timeline Layla works as a scientist and is something of recluse, at odds with her father Malcolm for reasons that are a mystery to everyone including herself. As the mysteries of both timelines are revealed, and strange creatures called White Walkers appear from underground, the Morrigan’s goal is finally revealed.
Archetype Possession: 10 Dark Tales
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These stories use archetypes as a jumping-off point for examining the dark side of humanity. Most stories are about families and relationships; some even have a supernatural element, and many are erotic. However, the darkest monster in these stories is usually the repressed human soul, leaving the victims unsure about what is real and what is madness.
Non-Fiction
Death and the Maiden: the Curious Relationship Between the Fear of the Feminine and the Fear of Death
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Belief in an immortal soul and in salvation has a paradoxically negative impact on perceptions of the archetypal feminine in myth, religious scripture, and philosophy; this can be demonstrated using the lens of depth psychology. This book explores the idea from Ancient Egyptian times through the early Christian era.
This study considers how psychological ideas about “masculine” and “feminine” are related to mythical and religious ideas about death and the afterlife, including notions of the soul, immortality, and salvation.
The change in focus from the collective nature of death described in Homer to the fate of the individual soul in Greek philosophy and later early Christianity is concurrent with the devaluing of the feminine and its associations, particularly the earth and what lies under the earth.