I’ve spent the last few years walking footpaths and forest tracks with a question whispering at my heels: What traces of the witch remain in the land? Not just the ones conjured by horror stories or fairytales, but also the real women and men—misunderstood, feared, powerful, poor—whose lives were shaped by the edges of society and landscape alike.
My new book, Witch Country: Seeking the witch in the British landscape, is the result of that journey. It’s a love letter to the old ways, to folklore, to the magic that lingers in stone circles, hedgerows, and hearths. Part poetic psychogeography, part cultural history, it invites the reader into a Britain that is both familiar and strange, where the past presses up through the soil.
The witch is not just a figure of the past. She’s a metaphor for the marginalised, the wise, the wild. In writing this book, I drew from my background in neuroscience as well as my work in storytelling and ritual, because I believe our brains are enchanted by myth for a reason. Story is how we heal, remember, and reimagine.
🌙 Witch Country is now available for pre-order through Womancraft Publishing. It launches worldwide on October 31st—Samhain, when the veil is thinnest.
If you’re interested in folklore, witchcraft, land magic, or want a good walk through a strange and beautiful Britain—I think you are going to be spellbound by this one...
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