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Mace Styx
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How Sharaign met her end is not recorded. Whether some hero did eventually succeed in bringing her to heel we shall never know. Though there are complimentary legends about the crozier of St. Dunstan, a saint already famed for his battles with the devil, being used to strike her dead. What is recorded, is what was done with her remains.
For those who don’t know, a "cairn" is a roughly assembled pile of loose rocks. They usually consist of larger rocks at the bottom with smaller fragments balanced precariously on top the higher it becomes. These most ancient and most basic of sculptures, can be found across the world, from the mountains of Tibet to the trails of the Andes.
In some cultures, the custom is to walk around the cairn, completing a full circle before continuing on your way. In others, it is customary to add a rock to the edifice, balancing it somewhere on the pile every time you pass, as an offering or gesture to the spirits of the mountains, the forest, or wilderness you are about to enter. For some, the cairn is a primeval and potent symbol of man’s instinctive need to project order onto the chaos around him and his innate desire to create. Sharaign’s Cairn is different. The tradition with this Cairn, is to try not to look.
Standing in the center of Fuller’s wood, the pile of rough hewn stones, looking at times like a dismantled dry stone wall, is around four feet in height. It is positioned on a small island of rocks and moss around which run the streams of Hazel Brook. There is a reason for this.
The brook, with its two streams flowing around this island, creates a barrier. For it has long been known to those who know such things, that a witch cannot cross running water. Sleeping beneath the pile of stones, at the center of the wood she once called home, Sharaign is trapped by the brook on her tiny island. Sharaign’s Cairn not only marks the old crone’s grave, it also acts as her prison. Her soul cannot cross running water and so she is forever trapped.
Or at least she should be, but then, there is the old adage, that ‘just as the serpent found its way into Eden, so evil always finds a way in’. Hearing the news about Tony tonight, I fear that the adage has proven to be true.
It was only two days ago, when, full of the false chimera of bravery that comes with too much ale, Tony Flannigan, a man well known in the area, accepted the bet that may well have been his undoing. It started, as many a bad idea does, as a joke in the local, where after a short and mostly truthful discussion of how Fuller’s wood and that old pile of stone had terrified them as kids. The men’s sharing of truth gave way to bravado and Tony, never one to take a knock to his ego lying down, made a ridiculous claim.
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Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place that might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. Particularly as it’s carried though space on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown). It plays by different rules. But then, some things are the same everywhere. The Disc’s very existence is about to be threatened by a strange new blight: the world’s first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the land.
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TERRIBLE Narration!
- By Kayla I on 07-08-22
By: Terry Pratchett
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Witch Hunt
- A Traveler's Guide to the Power and Persecution of the Witch
- By: Kristen J. Sollee
- Narrated by: Amy McFadden
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Traveling through cities and sites across Italy, France, Germany, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Kristen J. Sollee - a second-generation witch herself - explores the witch as a figure of female power and persecution. By infusing an adventurous first-person narrative with extensive research and imaginative historical fiction, Witch Hunt captures the magic of travel to make an often-overlooked period of history come alive.
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Bewitching! Loved it!
- By Isalina on 10-08-20
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The Book of Yokai
- Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore
- By: Michael Dylan Foster
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Drawing on years of research in Japan, Michael Dylan Foster unpacks the history and cultural context of yokai, tracing their roots, interpreting their meanings, and introducing people who have hunted them through the ages. In this delightful and accessible narrative, listeners will explore the roles played by these mysterious beings within Japanese culture and will also learn of their abundance and variety through detailed entries on more than 50 individual creatures.
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Pt 2 was delightful (+no cringey pronunciations!!)
- By Julieanne on 06-04-19
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101 More Amazing Harry Potter Facts
- By: Jack Goldstein, Frankie Taylor
- Narrated by: Jack Goldstein
- Length: 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Following on from Jack Goldstein and Frankie Taylor's popular 101 Amazing Harry Potter Facts, this wonderful audiobook contains over 100 amazing facts covering topics such as muggles in the series, the Ministry of Magic, the Weasleys, quidditch, the triwizard tournament and much more! Through JK Rowling's novels and films, we have been introduced to a fantastic and magical world that many of us would like to visit, despite the chance of running into a Death Eater or even Voldemort himself.
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Fun Facts
- By Maverick’s Trove on 03-07-18
By: Jack Goldstein, and others
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The Ghosts of Scotland: A Collection of Ghost Stories Across the Scottish Nation
- By: Sean Mcloughlin, Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Scotland is a fascinating and ancient land filled with history. Not everything in Scotland is as it appears, however. Some Scots say this is a land haunted by spirits, a place of strange disappearances and unexplained phenomena. The Ghosts of Scotland: A Collection of Ghost Stories Across the Scottish Nation is a collection of such tales, just a few among the thousands of local legends and modern sightings that make Scotland one of the most haunted countries in the world.
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Great mix of history and the supernatural
- By jo_hannah1917 on 03-23-19
By: Sean Mcloughlin, and others
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The Story We Carry in Our Bones
- Irish History for Americans
- By: Juilene Osborne-McKnight
- Narrated by: Juilene Osborne-McKnight
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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More than 40 million people consider themselves Irish American, and yet most of them do not truly understand the rich cultural history of their ancestors. From prehistoric times to the emigration of the Irish to Amerikay, this broad, yet comprehensive, history gives a general overview of the deep history of Irish Americans.
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Blown away
- By Bob on 01-27-22
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Young Goodman Brown
- By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
- Length: 40 mins
- Unabridged
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How long would you walk, if the Devil sauntered up to you of an evening, and journeyed alongside of you? Young Goodman Brown is led by the Devil to a midnight ritual, where fire, blood, and water change his opinions of the nature of humanity.
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Perfect
- By Andrew H. on 09-21-17
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American Witches
- A Broomstick Tour through Four Centuries
- By: Susan Fair
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
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On a tour through history that's both whimsical and startling, we'll encounter 17th-century children flying around inside their New England home "like geese". We'll meet a father-son team of pious Puritans who embarked on a mission that involved undressing ladies and overseeing hangings. And on the eve of the Civil War, we'll accompany a reporter as he dons a dress and goes searching for witches in New York City's most dangerous neighborhoods.
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Christan witch book
- By Nicole on 09-01-20
By: Susan Fair
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The Shunned House
- By: H. P. Lovecraft
- Narrated by: Felbrigg Napoleon Herriot
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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The house on Benefit Street is shunned. With a dark forbidding exterior, a garden overrun by corrupt weeds and bent malformed trees, it simply looks wrong. The locals know its history, know how many people that house has killed, and fear it. Dr Elihu Whipple is not afraid of the house, he's fascinated by it and its history, and now he's decided to investigate its horrifying secret.
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Pleasantly Surprised
- By B. Stiner on 07-08-23
By: H. P. Lovecraft
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Fifth Sun
- A New History of the Aztecs
- By: Camilla Townsend
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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For the first time, in Fifth Sun, the history of the Aztecs is offered in all its complexity based solely on the texts written by the indigenous people themselves. Camilla Townsend presents an accessible and humanized depiction of these native Mexicans, rather than seeing them as the exotic, bloody figures of European stereotypes.
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Ethnocentric ethnohistory
- By Jeffrey D on 03-24-21
By: Camilla Townsend
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The First Ghosts
- Most Ancient of Legacies
- By: Irving Finkel
- Narrated by: Irving Finkel
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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There are few things more in common across cultures than the belief in ghosts. Ghosts inhabit something of the very essence of what it is to be human. Whether we personally 'believe' or not, we are all aware of ghosts and the rich mythologies and rituals surrounding them. They have inspired, fascinated and frightened us for centuries - yet most of us are only familiar with the vengeful apparitions of Shakespeare, or the ghastly spectres haunting the pages of 19th-century Gothic literature. But their origins are much, much older.
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Ghosts Were Causing My Tinnitus!
- By James D on 01-08-22
By: Irving Finkel
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Secrets and Mysteries of the World
- By: Sylvia Browne
- Narrated by: Sylvia Browne
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
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For those of us who have always been fascinated by the unexplained, or inadequately explained, secrets and mysteries of this world, psychic Sylvia Browne now comes to our rescue. From the Great Pyramid to Stonehenge, Sylvia reveals amazing facts behind some of the world's most mysterious sites.
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Utter, utter crap
- By Sebastiaan on 02-28-05
By: Sylvia Browne