Crow Magic: Novella

PREAMBLE

These stories were, mainly, released in 2002 in the title When I See the Wild God.

We cause disquiet. We make questions but it’s not our way to give answers. The wildness and the frightening places. The cave entrance under the ice at the base of that crevasse. Blue handprints on the rock face imprinted with an ochre of confusion. By people we cannot name and from a time we cannot confirm. We are Once Upon a Timepeople. People of the reindeer. Volcano people. I know that air has feelings and that messages can be sent through the earth; that I can touch someone, and their lives will be forever changed but that I am not responsible. I know the shape of that cloud is a conversation. That a forked stick can find water. That the ring around the moon warns of rain. That what I can tell you can go straight to your gut or your throat, and yes that’s metaphor but it’s also not me doing it. It’s you feeling it because even though we are seemingly separate I can look at you and you might squirm because I know you are lying and are so lonely. Anything you do will have consequences. Everything has consequences.

Mirrors are all around us.

The Legends of the Sídhe series is a rewilded ecology in language contemporary mythology.

Final sound production: Motiv Music https://motivmusic.com/