BBC Countryfile Magazine

Nicola Chester

In these times of multi-crisis, a new interest in folklore, myth, or what tentatively might be called ‘spiritualism’ is rising. Moon names, borrowed from Native American, farming or rural culture, are referenced in weather reports (July’s moon is ‘the hay moon’) and the ancient foliate face of Green Man symbolism abounds, from a festival in Wales to King Charles’s coronation.

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