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Finding Tobar na Cailleach
Cailleach into Brigid at Imbolc
Allyson Shaw
I’m Allyson Shaw, author of Ashes and Stones: a journey through Scotland in search of women hunted as witches. I live in Orkney with my partner and a pride of three cats. Any pronouns.
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Celebrations at the New Snow Moon
Ashes & Stones goes out into the world
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96 Hours
the countdown to Ashes and Stones Publication Day
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Two Books
Two Fridas, trauma, and the double life of the published book
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New Yule Moon Blessings
On this darkest and longest of nights
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Ashes & Stones Virtual Launch
& a very special giveaway!
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Full Cold Moon Rites
a poem for the dead
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Yule Hang-- all the deets
for paid subscribers
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Seeding the New Cold Moon
Our next meet up poll
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A Troglodyte Emerges
on the discomforting anticipation of publicity
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On World Menopause Day...🧙
It's World Menopause Day--what does the crone archetype and historical witch persecution have to do with modern menopause? I tackle this as well as my own peri-menopause journey, up at my blog. My most recent essay on wild swimming in the North Sea in a storm is up
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Ashes and Stones Cover REVEAL🌙
I'm so pleased to share the gorgeous cover design for Ashes and Stones by Natalie Chen. The illustrator is Iain MacArthur. 'It’s summer. I stand where perhaps Ellen stood, in this ground thick with new thistle and long grass. She would have ken this coast in