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The New Ley Hunter's Guide / Paul Devereux. Glastonbury: Gothic Image Publications, 1994

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Collection number: NAMOSRL GN796 .D48 1994 (Circulating)

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The origins of the New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library (NAMOSRL) can be traced back to 2004 when Guy Frost and Cliff Landis began discussing the preservation of hard to find and at risk Pagan periodicals. Cliff’s concept was called New Religious Movements Archival Library (NRMAL), and tasks were divided between the two with Cliff investigating the technological aspects as well as making the first contacts with publishers and Guy began creating a descriptive bibliography of potential resources that could be added to the project. Sadly, this project was abandoned in early 2005 for various reasons, but the idea remained in Guy’s mind of something that needed to be done. Guy had been acquiring resources for the project and although NRMAL was no more, has continued to do so. During the spring of 2013, Crystal Richardson, a Valdosta State University student, approached Guy with a request to be advisor to a new Pagan and Wiccan Society on the VSU campus. Saying yes, it was through working with the officers and members of this group that he was reminded of the need for students to access resources to assist in researching topics they were presenting at their sponsored events. This need, however, reached a pinnacle when Guy was lead to search and photocopy from his personal library articles, interviews, and mentionings in books of Starhawk for a student that was writing a paper on her. It was at this point that Guy realized his resources should be more accessible and preferably in an academic setting. In was not until 2015 that Guy approached Deborah Davis, the University Archivist, about donating all of the Pagan resources he had amassed as an archival collection. Deborah expressed great interest. For an archival collection to be rich in source materials it must contain more than just periodicals. This is where this Research Library departs from the original concept of NRMAL. The scope and breadth of the collection had to be expanded. As such, there are two parts of the collection: 1. records and papers of people and organizations that could and do stand alone as unique archival collections which will be described individually; 2. books, periodicals, study notes, and other ephemera collected to support its scope. This portion of the collection is divided into broad Library of Congress Subject Series. These series contain books, periodicals, and artifacts relating to their designated subjects. These subjects include: Antiquities/Mythology; Psychology; Parapsychology; Occult Sciences; Religions; Holidays and Cookery; Alternative Medicine; Women's Studies; Gardening/Herbology. These broad subjects expand into more specific topics as you explore the collection.

Dates

  • Publication: 1994

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Extent

1 Books : xii, 162 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Language

English

Table of Contents

Preface to the new edition (p.x-xii)

The ley story: 'A flood of ancestral memory' (p.3-6)

Ley names (p.7-9)

Ley markers (p.9)

Mounds (p.10-13)

Old stones (p.13-16)

Water markers (p.16)

Castles (p.17)

Beacons (p.17-18)

Traditional wells (p.18)

Churches (p.18-21)

Crossroads (p.21-22)

Road alignment (p.22-25)

Trees (p.25)

Notches (p.25)

Camps (p.25-28)

Argument and evidence (p.29)

The reality of landscape lines (p.29-37)

Practical ley hunting: Ley length and width (p.39-40)

Mapwork (p.40-45)

Grid and magnetic bearings (p.45-48)

Grid references (p.48)

In the field (p.49-52)

Updating the ley myster: The 'ley' name (p.53-54)

Cursuses (p.54-56)

Churches on leys (p.56-61)

Early researchers (p.61-62)

Statistics (p.62-65)

Native American mystery lines (p.65-71)

Practical ley hunting (p.71-72)

The Great Divide (p.72-76)

Spirit lines (p.76-80)

Shamanism (p.80-83)

Shamanic lines (p.83-88)

Flightpaths of the soul (p.88-91)

Sacred straightness (p.91-95)

Kingly lines of power (p.95-96)

The new ley hunting (p.96-102)

Ghosts (p.102-104)

The inner landscape (p.104)

A ley gazetteer (p.105-108)

Ley Examples: Long Man of Wilmington Ley, Sussex (109-112)

Winchester Ley, Hampshire (112-115)

Uffington Ley, Wiltshire/Oxfordshire (p.115-118)

A Cotswold Ley (p.119-123)

Cerne Abbas Ley, Dorset (p.124-127)

Dinedor Ley, Hereford and Worcester (p.127-129)

St. Paul's Cathedral Ley, London (p.129-132)

Strand Ley, London (p.132-134)

Old Sarum Ley, Wiltshire/Hampshire (p.134-138)

Silbury Hill Ley, Wiltshire (p.138-142)

Hereford Ley, Hereford and Worcester (p.142-145)

Oldbury Ley, Hereford and Worcester (p.145-147)

Chester Ley, Clwyd/Cheshire (p.147-150)

Bradgate Ley, Leicestershire (p.150-155)

Devil's Arrows Ley, North Yorkshire (p.155-158)

Repository Details

Part of the Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections Repository

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