Echoes from the Loam

Not Your Name

another night where the dark folds itself around the ridges like damp cloth and the wind carries the kind of warnings that only make sense if you’ve lived long enough to know what not to listen to. the kind of place where the old rules weren’t folklore but survival, rules like never whistle in the woods, don’t look into the tree line, if you hear your name, no you didn’t, and if it sounds far away, it’s next to you; if it sounds close, it’s far away,

The Bone Lady

tonight we turn our attention to the mountains—   the old mountains, the Appalachian spine,   where the ridges rise like the backs of sleeping beasts   and the hollows hold stories that were old before the first cabin was built,   stories whispered through pine needles and creek water,   stories that do not care whether you believe them.     And in those stories walks a figure carved from bone and hunger,   a witch or a specter or something that remembers being both,

Beltane

Today, we step into Beltane, the bright hinge between spring’s awakening   and summer’s first breath,   a night when the world feels alive in ways it doesn’t bother to hide.   The fires are lit.   The dew is gathering.   And something ancient is stretching beneath the soil,   curious to see who dares to walk the boundary with it.

Screaming Skulls of England

Across England, tucked into manor houses, farmsteads, and ancestral halls, there are skulls that are never buried.   Not because they were forgotten…   but because they refuse to be.   These are the screaming skulls—   bone‑bound spirits,   domestic ghosts,   guardians or warnings depending on who you ask.

Humming from the Hollow

As you step with me into the shifting shadows of Glastonbury’s hidden lines and forgotten crossings, let your mind loosen its grip on the ordinary world, let your breath slow, and let the darkness gather at the edges of your thoughts, because what rises from the deep tonight has been waiting a very long time to be heard.