[Renfield]

Very interesting article.

[Renfield]

GGG ping.

[BipolarBob]

Deep stuff. I’ll need an evening with some Jagermeister to sort this one out.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

Bkmarked.

[muawiyah]

Access to graveyards and gravesites from public roads across apparantly private lands is generally guaranteed by state laws. In the Midwest and New England these laws are generally enforced by Township Trustees. Elsewhere I assume the County Supervisors enforce them.

Early pioneer graveyards in America are frequently off the main route of modern roads. There's usually a farm or other piece of property between them and the roads. Landowners trapped between a road and a grave must provide access anyway.

It's likely earlier human societies had the exact same problem. As land was bought and sold, and with changes in economic activity, density of population, and the redrawing of political lines, numerous gravesites must have become isolated from the every changing more modern routes of travel.

These grave paths would have provided a valuable public service.

[SlowBoat407]

Just got a chill.

[hershey]

A few years ago, a friend living in a rented house in MA, decided she had to move when bureau drawers kept sliding open or slamming shut, then a bedroom window flew up or down. Her dog barked madly at something he saw, but she didn’t see. (8I wonder if the house was in a ‘fairy path’.) Another friend in Maine lived across a field from a graveyard and her dog would go nuts, staring out the window and barking at the gravestones. He saw something going on that she didn’t.

[johnny7]

“Other accounts record that if fairies marching out at night encountered an obstacle such as a bush “in the way”, they would simply go round it and re-join the course of the fairy route beyond.”

[hershey]

My mother who was Irish, ‘saw’ things, including, on one occasion, a woman lying dead in a coffin. She heard organ music and smelled flowers. At the moment she had this vision, the woman was standing in front of her, fit as a fiddle.

[ClearCase_guy]

bump for later

[Dudoight]

Yes, I perused Watkin’s book on leylines years ago. Been to most neolithic and iron age sites in England. A favorite site is Carnac, Brittany. Years ago tourists were rare. Now I think these places are packed. I saw Stonehenge before it was roped off, those were the days when you could ‘touch it’.

The above author ties in a lot of commonalities. But...as he said were these commonalities d/t ‘brain wiring’ or a migrating concept from one place to another?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Renfield.

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[sidetracked]

bookmarked

[Peanut Gallery]

... In Britain, we pick it up as the “church porch watch” or “sitting-up”. In this, a village seer would hold a vigil between 11 pm and 1 am at the church door, in the graveyard, at the lych-gate (where the cortège entered the churchyard), or on a nearby lane (presumably a corpse road), in order to look for the wraiths of those who would die in the following 12-month period.

The Graveyard Shift?

[sageb1]

“Stiles were considered “favourite perches for ghosts”.”

The Ghost of Benjamin Sweet!

[Peanut Gallery]

Seriously though, some of these do take physical geographic form. In Hubbard, Texas (where my mother’s family is from) Second St. dead ends into the cemetery. The cemetery is only accessible from this entrance, though it is visible from the highway.

[gcruse]

A spellbinding article. Thank you for posting it.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Very, very interesting. I was very stunned to read a fung shei article awhile back...it concerned the placing of doors in a home. My late father (1st generation Irish) had told me, when he first visited our current home (15 years ago) that he didnt like the fact that our front door and our back (kitchen) door 'lined up.' I remember him telling me that both the 'good luck and the bad luck will pass us by...you'll have no luck at all.' We both a little laugh over it (at the time...my dad spoke like that). The fung shei article said the same thing...the 'luck' just flows away if your doors line up. Interesting (at least to me) that Irish and Chinese folke lore would be similar.

My family was very, very superstitious...and I grew up around tales of 'happenings.' Please add me to your GGG ping list :)

[Alkhin]

Id like to ask a question and I want y’all to know I am not asking it to be snarky or sarcastic or contemptuous or silly...Im asking this because leylines have held a kind of fascination for me for some time and not too long ago I got an inspiration for a fictional story surrounding ley lines that Id like to try and research and put as much thought into as possible, as my main character will be a kind of skeptic or reluctant believer...so often when I have read of ley lines, the speculation that ghosts are attached have also come up. I can understand that since the lines possibly lead to cemetaries, that they become a kind of ‘spiritual’ highway, but is there anything in the folklore and anthro/arch research that makes the same kind of correlation? Im only just reading the article and am printing it out to study further (its late and Ive spent the whole weekend painting my daughter’s room), but would love to find out what my fellow FReeper archaeologists/anthropologists think...

[balch3]

nothing good comes from getting mixed up in the occult.

[SunkenCiv]

I think you get the Cool GGG Topic of the Week Award.

Of course, we don't actually *have* that yet...

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