Guest Post: The Devil’s In The Detail by Julie Travis

“Paps! Paps in the landscape!”

Many years ago I interviewed Cheryl Straffon, a Cornish witch, and she was describing the female qualities of the two hills near Land’s End. As a lifelong acolyte of folklore, magick and the supernatural, it felt like an entirely natural thing to be discussing. And it gave a sensual new angle to my conviction that the landscape is a living thing.

I’ve often seen folklore described as something intrinsically linked to the British rural landscape of times gone by....