{"id":8868,"date":"2021-05-12T13:29:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T12:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=8868"},"modified":"2021-05-12T13:29:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T12:29:44","slug":"threading-through-cheshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2021\/05\/12\/threading-through-cheshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Threading through Cheshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Wormwoodiana<\/em> blog browses through an <a href=\"http:\/\/wormwoodiana.blogspot.com\/2021\/05\/a-knowing-landscape.html\">old copy of <em>Mysterious Cheshire<\/em><\/a> from the Earth Mysteries era of the late 1970s and early 1980s and finds a Welsh Marches author&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the \u2018Philip Rickman\u2019 who wrote or co-wrote these booklets went on to write, as Phil Rickman, many highly-regarded supernatural fiction novels, including the Merrily Watkins series about a Church of England exorcist and psychic sleuth in the Welsh Border country around Hay-on-Wye.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/chesh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/chesh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"365\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8870\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s suggested there was a possible connection between the timing of an antiquarian paper on the &#8216;Biddlemoor&#8217; population on Biddulph Moor, and Arthur Machen who at that time was musing on relic populations of the Little People. Although such things had been &#8216;in the air&#8217; for several years before that, re: the establishment of a serious fairy research society and suchlike.<\/p>\n<p>Update: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/mysteriouscheshi0000rick\"><em>Mysterious Cheshire<\/em><\/a> is now on Archive.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wormwoodiana blog browses through an old copy of Mysterious Cheshire from the Earth Mysteries era of the late 1970s and early 1980s and finds a Welsh Marches author&#8230; the \u2018Philip Rickman\u2019 who wrote or co-wrote these booklets went on to write, as Phil Rickman, many highly-regarded supernatural fiction novels, including the Merrily Watkins series about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}