This issue of Hellebore invites readers to experience the landscape as sacred, beautiful, and at times terrifying.
The cover of this issue sets the tone for the pieces included: an image that illustrates the connection between humanity, nature, and the suggestion of a world beyond our own. Through the theme of the four elements found in history and prevalent in many magical traditions, the contributors to this zine cover themes including literary criticism, film studies, archaeology, history, and more.
Contents include:
- Editorial
- Fairy Lepidoptera Sam George analyses the Cottingley fairy photographs and shows how their association with moths and butterflies links fairies to a shadowy tradition.
- The Wind, the Witch and the Wendigo Nick Freeman reflects on how the wind has inspried superstitions and rituals, supernatural tales, and elemental music.
- Gallery/Healing Stones Lally Macbeth and Matthew Shaw present a selection of standing stones at the epicentre of healing rituals in Britain and Ireland.
- An Earthy History of the British Gnome Behind its kitsch reputation, argues Francis Young, the popularity of the British garden gnome suggests a long-standing yearning for magic and connection with the earth.
- The Stormbringers Andy Sharp studies depictions of elemental weather magic in three classic occult films: The Shout, Night of the Demon, and The Tempest.
- Solar Power The idea that megaliths are purposely aligned with the sun and the stars has a contentious history. Kenneth Brophy reflects on the past, present, and future of archaeoastronomy.
- Summoning the Water Serpent Veronica Strang tells how activists are harnessing the power of water deities to address the current environmental crisis.
Printed on silk coated paper. Perfect binding. A5. 90 pages.








