The moors around West Yorkshire are home to sacred neolithic sites and have seen paganism practiced for a very long time. Central to these beliefs and ways of life have always been the stories that accompany and explain them.
The first picture in the slide show above is The Hitching Stone, situated a couple of miles north of Haworth and said to have been thrown from Ilkley moor by the giant , St Catherine, at her husband Rombald.
There is a hole that runs the length of the 1000 ton boulder intersected at a Fibonacci interval by a hollowed out cave that can be sat in and which also faces west towards the highest point on Pendle hill. The sound produced by the wind vibrating through each end of the divided hole creates a binaural effect, a different tone in each ear. The effect is quite something else... |
Magical objects, rituals, stories and megaliths have existed on this ribbon of hills and moorland for thousands of years.
More recent tales and superstitions also hint at having much earlier roots and similar forms of these ancient energies can even be found in the art work of the Brontes and history of the local Freemasons, Church and parsonage. It is as if an unseen energy is repeatedly manifesting as archetypes through both human endeavour and wild ecology. |
Follow the links below for more strangeness and magic
Portals - Doorways, windows , entrances and liminal spaces
Did the local Haworth Freemasons magically conjure up the Brontes ?There is an enduring tale of diabolism and necromancy still discussed in hushed tones in the back rooms of taverns around Haworth village.
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Fairies and other beings"There were a lot more fairies in the villages and towns before the mills and factories scared them back into the countryside" Tabby Aykroyd
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restless souls- but not all ghosts are the spirits of the once living
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The sacred female trinity
The Bronte sisters as archytypes of the sacred femine trinity
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Ducking Stool, Haworth
Where the local witches were tested to see if they floated.
There are local stories about a witches coven along a track to the west Ducking stool but no evidence can be found nowadays. |
Spa Well
The sacred well on Haworth moor
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