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.

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Gwel-A-Throt
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The Witch Who Blighted Leekley
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Meadowsweet's Red Chaplet
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Yet Thy Spirit Shall Not Sleep
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Meadows of Elfhame


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