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In the forests of Scandinavia, women once used a distinctive form of high-pitched singing to summon their livestock home. Known as kulning, these piercing melodies carried across valleys and mountain pastures. Today, as traditional herding declines, kulning is finding new practitioners and audiences; people sing into forests and across lakes simply and profoundly to experience … Read moreThe New Folkways: On the Re-enchantment of Tradition

Nyx Shadowhawk writes on the deeply playful “religion” of Zilpha Keatley Snyder’s award-winning children’s novel, The Egypt Game: Part of what’s appealing about The Egypt Game is that its characters have a fantastical secret double life, but the story doesn’t involve any actual magic. The gods don’t start actually talking to them, there’s no Egyptian … Read more“Playful Rites: Revisiting The Egypt Game”