EDITORIAL

Our change of format and title was well received, and our slight widening of scope has been all to the good. This issue sees publication of the talks given at the Third Cambridge Geomancy Symposium, held at St Andrew’s Street Hall in May 1980. For historians of leys there is a major antiquarian discovery – the first known map of aligned sites dating from 1570, also more from the world of Nazi geomancy, the Rig Veda mystery, Caerdroia notes and Observatory, for which I thank readers – please keep sending in those cuttings.

We regret to announce the death of another geomantic researcher, Sam Wildman, whose book on the Black Horsemen must be familiar to readers. It is doubly sad that his book Pictures on the Hills, about the chalk hill figures of England, was never published.

With this issue, subscribers receive Jeremy Harte’s erudite paper on the White Beast and the Sacred site – an important folkloristic contribution to geomancy. From Fenris Wolf, we still await Gerlach’s collected works, which will he available before Yule.

NIGEL PENNICK.