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Vigil as Devotional Watching

Keeping the Long Night By Angharad Wynne Deep is the magic of fire-tending through dark hours, of giving a night’s sleep as an offering: a sacrifice for a prayer’s flight. It effects change. Things that were ordinary are no longer so, we commune with a night and its fathomless wisdom, with all its tides, hoots and howls. To vigil is …

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Frog Medicine and the Death of Animal Kin

The unspoken part of the fairytale By Angharad Wynne I ended a life on Saturday night. I feel raw from it, and sometimes writing is a way of processing. I was walking a small group of brave, hardy humans along a dark lane, heading for a vigil site in a friend’s wood. It was raining and my head torch cast …