In Search of the Hag March 18, 2025
Author: Beach Combing | in : UncategorizedDavid Hufford’s study of nightmare is well known. Many of us have had the experience of feeling a crushing weight on our chest while sleeping. This experience is often associated with a creeping sense of menace and often the presence of some supernatural bogey in the room: it is even sometimes claimed that the supernatural […]
The Pixie Wars March 3, 2025
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
Supernatural entites are tied to places and they are known by specific terms in different localities: this is something that we easily lose touch with when we read and write about the supernatural. Beach wants to give here just one version. ‘Pixies’ are a south-western word for fairies: though there are hints that these pixies […]