Hedgefairy Tales

I probably notice one at least once a day when I leave the house these days – I think when you start looking for them they start popping up everywhere. There are at least three or four working communal shrines/altars in my nearest big public park that’ve been there for years; someone left petition candles to Oshun and St Michael at the base of a local oak tree a few weeks ago; there’s a DIY memorial with names of babies who died in infancy hanging from a tree in my old neighbourhood; my current neighbourhood’s got a Luigi-Mangione-As-Saint street mural that’s pulled in loads of associated graffiti, lots with explicitly spiritual messages or symbols.

Most common ones I notice are: stone piles/cairns left at crossing places, roadside memorials, wishing wells and fountains, statues that’ve acquired their own good luck rituals from visibly rubbed spots, padlock bridges, people leaving photos or messages in mini free libraries/food cupboards, graffiti and street sticker hotspots that take on their own lives and specific purposes/vibes, memorials/sigils/spiritual symbols carved into specific trees and park benches, statues or displays in community gardens/allotments, clooties/stones/flowers/misc stuff decorating big or communally placed trees.

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