Interest piece on ley lines on Fortean Times, it’s long but just about worth ploughing through as it contains some good snippits. A better editor on this would have helped.

My great grandfather lived on a farm out in Bradwall, Sandbach, England. His fields used to align with hills and circles appeared every year in the grass of his field. (Not a crop field, pasture). Was very weird but it was great fun to play in them when I was small.

What’s interesting in this piece is how the same mythos come up in vastly distant cultures again and again, ley lines, spirit birds, dreamcatchers, at a time when those cultures had no connections, we currently believe.

These European and Asian devices look very similar to American Indian dreamcatchers, revealing curiously similar notions about the passage of spirits. Curious that is, unless one accepts the premise that it all derived from a common and extremely archaic source in central Asia. The alternative explanation is that the common “wiring” of the human brain produces similar concepts in the minds of people in technologically similar societies. A final option, of course, is that pre-modern peoples around the world were responding to the actual perception of spirits moving through the land. But however far we follow them, the “leylines” cannot lead us to an answer about that.

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