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through underbrush, swinging torches into shadowed corners. I thought you’d be sleeping.” “I was,” Forest replied dryly. “Oh, I’m so sorry, dearie, I didn’t mean to disturb your winter nap. I was just looking for someplace to settle my old bones, and your forest was so welcoming.” “I think I’d prefer to stay, dearie. The dark woods never have quite as much prey.

Her sorcery-cloaked sisters come seeking her spells. Stirring storms of fire and ice, Water and wind, Shadow and light, The Weather Witch obliges. Her cauldron brimming with Gale and flood, she speaks the spells Her sisters seek. business executive who after years of being committed to the bottom line is gaining equilibrium in her psyche through her endeavors in folklore.

, came to look forward to letting her braid the copper river of my hair or braiding the silver river of hers. after a while though, although she was excellent company: well read, loved to converse, and more beautiful with each round of the moon, and seemed truly to enjoy the world i’d built for us, in her i knew the girl was lonely for company of her own age; it seemed an innocent enough spell but then, things a bit of free time and it is rather nice in here with more voices filling this tower room. i do love

First, Hannah's father, the village magistrate, presented her with two silver shillings—no small gift Hannah looked the right age for a blend of herbs Elizabeth made specifically for the newfound pains of "Would that I could cure your stubbornness!" Elizabeth said. This time, when Elizabeth started to refuse, Hanna threatened to tell her father that Elizabeth had cheated "Would that I could cure your father of his doting ways," Elizabeth said, reluctantly taking the coins

Author Brian Earl, host of the very popular podcast “Christmas Past,” has gathered together the origins I learned something new from every entry, and never felt like I was being given too much or too little You could read this book in one sitting, but I took a few days to read it, because it’s so enjoyable. I recommend “Christmas Past” without reservation! Stories Behind Our Favorite Holiday's Traditions,” will be published on Nov. 1, and you can order it here

between the worlds, and odd things begin to happen; the family cat disappears, Aaron’s wife starts to see shadows You can find the book here. Her work has appeared in Eternal Haunted Summer, Blue Heron Review, Forget-Me-Not Press, Mermaids Monthly

hadn’t moved in, grandmother’s cottage was under construction and the disappeared had left only damp shadows But once again Once upon another time Memory failed and the forest shadows grew larger and toothier Choosing her path. Before If the girl in the red hood starts here she’ll never make it to the end of her story. Someone has to keep her eyes open, sings her grandmother to the day, to the night, to the wind spell

"Has your father spoken an angry or an unkind word to you?" "How can I not be sad? Has your father spoken a cruel or an unkind word to you?" "How can I not be sad?" Have you heard from your father anything cruel or unpleasant?" "How can I not be sad? The King, my father, has ordered that I should be present at the review with you. The Wise Princess was so far more cunning and wise than her father, that he clothed her in a frog's skin

I love the way the baby arrives. I love the sachets. Everything was dependent upon the plants she grew, and she was always tending, gathering, and drying She simply gathered the required plants, had the person blow on them, and then Flora made a sachet. The girl was a quick learner, and Flora enjoyed teaching her all about herbs and the magicks within them Flora gathered ingredients and had the girl blow on them.

As far as images I love Snow White… her black hair, rose cheeks and snow white face and mostly because I also wrote a picture book about her, which I just submitted to a publisher and am crossing my fingers to miraculously cure her… or I imagined that mothers and children came and helped her and she dreamt I grow roses, chamomile, echinacea, and lots of other herbs and make teas, tinctures, oils, creams, etc I like that no one will come inside the house which means I can leave messes and projects and herbs and

“I will pay whatever you ask.” And Annika, when her parents asked her what life she might seek, said only, “I am happy here with you Then one day her husband said, “I fear my poor mother is dying. I must go to her in the country. “Of course I will,” she said. Stephanie Ascough is the author of A Land of Light and Shadow, an MG fantasy, and is working on too many

I mean, these two characters have lost their mother, their father has re-married (depending on the version Could the children have ever forgiven their father for abandoning them? Then I would work through the book again and send it back to her. Click here for my review. Find Kell at her website here, or on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter.