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Liz Ixer

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Nature educator. Tweets on urban nature and natural history (can often be found staring at hedges); history, folklore; education; books, libraries; music ; art

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LIlizixer.bsky.socialOct 2, 2024 10:00am

A fabulous bit of scene setting ✔️druids ✔️bones ✔️human sacrifice ✔️tiny hamlet Amelia B. Edwards ‘The Engineer’s Story

… village was Chadleigh. Lifted high above the pasture-flats which stretched away at our feet like a measureless green lake and melted into mist on the furthest horizon, it nestled, a tiny stone-built hamlet, in a sheltered hollow about midway between the plain and the plateau.
Above us, rising ridge beyond ridge, slope beyond slope, spread the mountainous moor-country, bare and bleak for the most part, with here and there a patch of cultivated field or hardy plantation, and crowned highest of all with masses of huge grey crag, abrupt, isolated, hoary, and older than the deluge. These were the Tors-Druids' Tor, King's Tor, Castle Tor, and the like; sacred places, as I have heard, in the ancient time, where crownings, burnings, human sacrifices, and all kinds of bloody heathen rites were performed.
Bones, too, had been found there, and arrowheads, and ornaments of gold and glass. I had a vague awe of the Tors and would not have gone near them after dark for the heaviest bribe

Liz Ixer

@lizixer.bsky.social

Nature educator. Tweets on urban nature and natural history (can often be found staring at hedges); history, folklore; education; books, libraries; music ; art

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