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 […]
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Rooting with stones #3
A new home in an ancient landscape The Aveyron is one of the biggest and at the same time most sparsely populated departments in France: 31 people per km2 compared to for example 488 people […]
Rooting with stones #2
Changing agency in an imaginary landscape The power of stories People love stories. Our whole lives are made up of stories. Some researchers say that the main reason why humans developed speech is… ‘gossip’. Whether […]
Rooting with stones
Imaginary wanderings through the ancient landscapes of South-Aveyron (France) Introduction In 2016 I moved from the Campine in Belgium to a rural, mountainous region in the South of France. This blog tells the story of […]