A Witch's Natural History youth Forests and Hearth

Forests and Hearth

Included is a new introduction for this edition alongside the original introduction

From Granite to Sea is the first ever comprehensive focus on the folklore of eastern Cornwall

Claude Lecouteux explores the origins

A Witch's Natural History youth Forests and HearthOriginally published as a series of essays in The Cauldron, is a meditation on the relationship between folklore and nature. The worlds dogmatic religions all have their devotional texts, and biological science, too, has its own rationalistic equivalents, from Darwins Voyage of the Beagle to Richard Dawkinss The Ancestors Tale. Natural historians have written their works of devotion to the works of nature: a genre which has been recognizable ever