The Shapeshifters Are Out! More Supernatural Tales from Native American tradition in Western New York Most Native Americans have a keen awareness of their ancestral traditions, especially in regards to the supernatural. THE SHAPESHIFTERS ARE OUT! is a gripping spoken-word performance that profiles ancient Six Nations’ supernatural/spiritual traditions, then turns to the accounts of contemporary […]
A Rose for the Baby: More Supernatural Tales from Irish- and Scottish-American tradition in Western New York Classic Irish and Scottish storytelling features witches, ghosts, curses, and the inimitable fairies. These figures still turn up in living accounts – and not just in the British Isles. Celtic tradition has crossed the Atlantic and rooted firmly […]
The Classical world used to believe that there were two kinds of sacred places: human holy sites consecrated through architecture and devotion, and geophysical power-spots that the gods had already sanctified through their sublime natural works – fountains, falls, fault lines, and other fey places. The mightiest of all, of course, would be ones that […]
