The Toad's Grave

........	The Toad's Grave is a page devoted to Traditional Pagan and Witchcraft-inspired fiction, written by your host, Robin Artisson. Here you will find a few fictional tales, which still contain hidden truths, buried in symbol and metaphor. Look carefully! Even a simple story may be more than it appears. The art of storytelling has been used since time immemorial to communicate very profound inner wisdom to people gathered around hearths and campfires. It may be hard for us in the modern day to understand, but before movies and television, stories and legends were the food of imagination, the very essence and activity that made mythology a living reality for our ancestors. The tradition of faery and folktales continues this great and holy custom- storytelling is no less important in our world today, and some might argue that it is more important now than it ever has been, with our declining connection to the past, to the world, and to each other. It is the imagination that makes us what we are, in the best sense of the word, and what nourishes the imagination is holy. * * *
Dark Satyr with foliage about the crown, Hobgoblin and Master of the wooded hall- He lays His head in living boughs! The birds scream His name; seed that saves! And the woody silence is thick with glee, Impish Lord of the field's own life; May dancing rings, red days and red nights, In the woods before the hill.” -Meadowsweet's Red Chaplet	Gwel-A-Throt * The Witch Who Blighted Leekley * Meadowsweet's Red Chaplet * Yet Thy Spirit Shall Not Sleep * Meadows of Elfhame	-About The Term "Witch" -The Knotted Cord: Links -Email Scarespite -Discussion Group
	* * * "Through the threads of the present do legends race Through breath and words and desperate hearts In the small clay cup and wooden plate Is the Antlered King, and all his court”

Site last updated: November 2, 2005