(Wednesday, March 18, 2026) new moon Pisces
Yesterday, on St. Patrick’s Day, I received the book “The Witch’s Pig,” which is an old Cornish folktale (not a fairytale). I ordered it because the main dream that inspires my Eadie fairytale takes place in Cornwall. And two other dreams I added to my story include magical Black Sows. It is a lovely book, well written. The illustrations are fun. I like that the witch’s cousin Tom is a main character. He is tall and his ears often appear sharp, like my elven guide Henry. My cousin Tom sometimes shows up in my dreams.
I am surprised that a second story is brewing for me, the Black Wolf dream I had the first night I stayed in Glastonbury, England (near Cornwall, next to Devon). In that dream, I crawl into a water drain to escape the wolf. In the piggy folktale, the sow gets stuck in a water drain, after rambling along bogs and moors. I include moors in my tale, of course. And Calhoun’s Witch Betty lives in a thatched-roof cottage, just like Eadie, my Witch/Faerie Queen.
