Fiddler’s Green: Volume 2 Number 1 - The Otherwise
48 pages
Fifth issue, “The Otherwise,” published May 2018, with copper titling, a cover drawn by Glyn Smyth, and 48 pages of art and magic.
Fiddler’s Green Peculiar Parish Magazine peers into the looking-glass in our fifth issue. These 48 pages present art and writing on magical conjurings of the Other, be it a complementary aspect of our own psyche or an entity entirely distinct. Considerations include haunted glens, the potency of enchanted rings, the pagan underpinnings of children’s literature, the magic of selective sensation, and a pair of poems from songwriter and gardener Martin Newell. Three pieces examine the magic of mirrors and other reflective surfaces, including a new spin on Lewis Carroll’s Alice, a treatise on the nature of skrying, and a guide to the mirror as habitation of a dangerous and vital shard of the self. With letters from readers, reviews of publications received, and an anagrammatical ancestor spell and accompanying flexi-disc recording by Craig Conley. 49 illustrations.
Clint Marsh - A Fool and His Mana
Dene Carter - Pagan Truths in Moominland
Timothy Renner - The Witch Tree
Clint Marsh - The Nearly Perfect Necromancy of Lady Mondegreen
Martin Newell - Cutting Hedge
Ray Nelson - Alice
Ivo Dominguez Jr. - Methods of the Skryer
Meredith Howe - The Mirror as Muse
Craig Conley - An Anagrammatical Ancestor Spell
Martin Newell - The Old Woods
