And I found another water spirit, this time in Asakusa in Tokyo, when I visited Japan in March 2023. Do you know an urban water engineer? An urban water engineer specializes in the design, implementation, […]
Author: Wendy Wuyts
A certified forest therapy guide, storyteller, researcher and writer.
A NW-European woman interested in restorying (wounded healing) landscapes.
Myth-ecology, technology and hydrofeminism in Ireland: Púca in The Machine
three artists explore the more-than-human beneath poulaphuca reservoir, wicklow, 2021-22 In Ireland, ancient myths and modern machines coalesce, manifesting a unique myth-ecology, a narrative bridge spanning the past’s spiritual fervor and the present’s technological vigor. […]
The huldra – places in Gjøvik with traces of wood nymphs
Some summers ago I got to know about the Huldra, a Norwegian forest creature (in Swedish: skogsrå, which can be translated as the guardian of the forest) and the Norwegian word Bergtatt. Since then, I […]
Writing (with) A Sycamore tree and ivy weeds in Dubrovnik
A musing about the tensions between urban greening, cultural heritage and the role of the plants Last summer, I went on a trip to the Balkan. I felt already eco-guilt and -shame about the flight […]
Amelberga, the river and the sturgeon’s lifecycle
In May 2021, my father found a good book from the 1980s: Roeck and Marquet (1980). “Belgian sagas and legends”. Illustrations by Henri Lievens. In the chapter “the virgins,” Dymphna came back, who has inspired […]
Forest bathing as a way of life (?)
The International Forest Therapy Day (IFTD) are returning this summer, with an interesting new theme. I am not original and copied the theme in the title. Forest bathing Forest bathing – or shinrin yoku is […]
A Flemish ghost in the throat: Imagining who Cathelyne van den Bulcke was
One week earlier, I walked with S., a friend, in the Flemish town Lier, once a rich city with Game of Thrones intrigues. The city has installed a walking tour, with different stops and QR […]
Feel invited to join one or more of the 3 new writing(with)plant sessions early February.
The world can look dark, especially in January for the people who live in the northern hemisphere. The days are short, the winter holiday decorations and cosiness fade away. Nature seems asleep or dead, except […]
Dimpna, a story about an uprooted irish princess rerooting in Flanders, and a 6 centuries old method of care for the mental ill
On a July day, in 2021, I was in Geel, with a fellow offspring of a witch that did not get burned in the 17th century, to “dig up some bones”. That’s what we call […]
2 new writing(with)plants sessions in November 2022
Often we underestimate the power of plants. We, humans, think often that we are the only stewards or helpers of the earth, but plants can be our allies too. Therefore, we organise virtual circles where […]
Stories from the Wood Wide Web 