Tag: folk

Two hundred years ago the Swedish island of Svalta was home to a colony; allegedly, due to plague, the isolated island was quarantined by the British under the

Barefoot in white dresses of lace, the pretty young maids greet the audience – the participants, even, for silently but taking no refusal some are offered crowns of

It should have been a happy day for Agnes, the first of many at the start of her new life as a wife to Wolf Lizlfellner, soon to

The age of reason pushes only so far as the borders of the forest; beyond those branches, veiled in mist, and within the hamlets that exist in the

“Withered blossoms were always on the ground amongst the grass, and on the stone fresh blooms constantly appeared,” and like rare blossoms fifteen stories from 1893 to 2018

Best friends from school, it seems like no time has passed for Esta and Jeanie, arranging to meet on the old lane by the fields, a country walk

A weary man crosses the desert on horseback, pausing in his search to scan the horizon and give his equally weary steed a moment of recovery; in the

It’s an old tradition, paying for a song with a pint, but the experience only lasts as long as the drink does after which there are just memories,

It’s an unwelcome duty which Gwyn recognises as necessary, a service to the community which he is called upon to perform, woken by an early morning call and

There is nothing forgiving in the desert, a place harsh and hard, sharp and prickly, disorienting, dry and unwelcoming yet magnificent, a backdrop against which photographer Wyndham Stone