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At long last…
I hope you enjoyed my delvings into the folklore behind my children’s novel, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle over the last few weeks. In the mean time, life has been marching on… the swifts arrived and with them, finally, … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Making changes
Tagged Avery Buckle, countryside, devon, father's day, four-leaf clover, grasses, Hannah Foley, june, meadow, orchard, orchid, ox-eye daisies, swifts, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, toblerone, yorkshire
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Folktales: Witches
In my book The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, Avery has no memory of the group of witches who promised to look after her when she was a baby. The witches live in a magical house called Cunningfoot, with doors that … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Making changes, Uncategorized
Tagged adventure, author, Avery Buckle, Baba Yaga, Cassandra, Ceridwen, folktales, Hannah Foley, inspiration, Jezebel, Kikimora, legends, Lilith, Mab, magic, middle-grade fiction, Midsummer, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, The Story Behind A Book, witches, writer
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Folktales: My Baddies
At the beginning of my book The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, Avery has a horrible feeling she is being followed by something not nice… and it turns out she’s correct! There’s a few baddies in the book, and my ideas for them … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Making changes
Tagged adventure, author, Avery Buckle, baddies, BAdoch, bean nighe, Bodach, children's books, folklore, folktales, Hannah Foley, kelpies, Kinlochleven, legends, Mab, magic, Mamores Mountains, middle grade fiction, peat bogs, peat hags, scotland, sluagh, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, The Story Behind A Book, witches, writer
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Folktales: Hearthfolk
In my book The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, Avery meets a character called Knuckle. He is broad-shouldered, with hands the size of teapots. He has black freckles clustering his shoulders, arms, and hairline, and every time he sneezes, sparkling embers … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Making changes
Tagged adventure, author, Avery Buckle, children's books, Dartmoor, domovoi, folktales, Hannah Foley, heart, hearth, hearthfolk, home, Howick House, Knuckle, Lucy Worlsley, magic, Mesolithic house, middle grade fiction, northumberland, Slavic traditions, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, The Story Behind A Book, writer
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Folktales: Giants and Standing Stones
In my book The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, Avery journeys to a circle of standing stones in Orkney called the Stones of Callanish. She is surprised to find that the stones can come to life, as a band of craggy … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Making changes
Tagged author, Avery Buckle, Avon Gorge, Brutus of Troy, children's books, fiddles, folk music, folklore, Gail Higginbottom, giants, Gogmagog, Goram and Vincent, Hannah Foley, legends, middle grade fiction, myths, standing stones, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, The Standing Stones of Callanish, University of Adelaide, watchers, writer
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Folktales: Crannogs and The Crannog – Monsters in the Landscape
In my book, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, there is a great monster, kept in an enchanted sleep in a cavern under Edinburgh. The creature is called a Crannog. A crannog is not really a monster at all, but when … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Making changes
Tagged adventure, author, Avery Buckle, crannogs, edinburgh, Hannah Foley, Inchmahome, islands, lake of menteith, loch, Loch Arnish, magic, middle-grade fiction, monsters, neolithic, pottery, roundhouses, scotland, Scottish Crannog Centre, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, writer
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Folktales: The Cat Fae, Girl Power, and the Shapeshifting Motif
In my book The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, one of Avery’s secrets is that she is a Cat Fae. A Cat Fae is a creature I made up – someone who is part cat and part human. Avery has a … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Making changes
Tagged adventure, animal, arachne, attitudes, author, Avery Buckle, bias, bird, black cat, cat, cat sidhe, cat sith, darth vader, faeries, female, feminine characteristics, feminism, folklore, folktales, girl power, greek mythology, Hannah Foley, jobs, kelpies, lady in the lake, magic, male, Margaret Thatcher, marriage, men, Moss-Racusin, motifs, mythology, nine, number, number nine, punishment, release, roles, scotland, sealskins, selkies, shapeshifting, society, stereotypes, story behind the book, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, The Story Behind A Book, The sword of power, wild soul, witch trails, witches, women, workplace, writer
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May Day
Today is May Day or Beltane, the traditional British festival in celebration of the coming of summer. Between now and Midsummer – a time of elves, faeries and magic – I’ll be writing a series of posts celebrating the folktales … Continue reading
Posted in Growing things, Making changes
Tagged author, Avery Buckle, beltane, blossom, cherry blossom, children's books, class, elves, faeries, feminism, folk tales, Hannah Foley, kelpies, landscape, magic, may, May Day, middle grade fiction, Midsummer, morality, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, witches, writer
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