Stories From the House That Walks on Two Feet
From silent, dark edges we watch. Our memory wells up, a long thin ribbon stretching through marrow… caught under the tongue, under moss, under skin… just below the calm, still surface of the pool.
It’s all in the numbers, and the spaces in between. 32 teeth. I don’t have them all. Three oaks on the hill… Six sides to the cell… Six roots cross the path on the way to the spring... Did your foot find them in the dark? All of them? Make sure you count. That’s how you know you’ve arrived. We’re waiting in the space in between.
Stories from the House that Walks on Two Feet is very loosely based on the Baba Yaga stories. It is inspired by the liminal, dream-like, natural places deep in the woods and wilds where fairy stories come from. Where you look up and realize that you have passed from the ordinary into something other than that. Where things have been happening at the edge of your vision that you feel, but haven’t yet seen… Everything is talking, not always with sound… Everything is watching, not always with eyes… You may well have stumbled into the home of the Hag, and nothing will be as it seems.
Fairy stories were told to help us remind each other what our society values, so we might feel encouraged to align ourselves accordingly.
The purpose of the fairy stories here is to urge us to reawaken, re-enliven, re-enchant our very human… very old… mythic relationship with the natural world, ourselves, and each other. These stories are intimate and available to all of us. If you are not already… please consider this your invitation to seek the stories that have been waiting in the wilds for you.
It’s all in the numbers, and the spaces in between. 32 teeth. I don’t have them all. Three oaks on the hill… Six sides to the cell… Six roots cross the path on the way to the spring... Did your foot find them in the dark? All of them? Make sure you count. That’s how you know you’ve arrived. We’re waiting in the space in between.
Stories from the House that Walks on Two Feet is very loosely based on the Baba Yaga stories. It is inspired by the liminal, dream-like, natural places deep in the woods and wilds where fairy stories come from. Where you look up and realize that you have passed from the ordinary into something other than that. Where things have been happening at the edge of your vision that you feel, but haven’t yet seen… Everything is talking, not always with sound… Everything is watching, not always with eyes… You may well have stumbled into the home of the Hag, and nothing will be as it seems.
Fairy stories were told to help us remind each other what our society values, so we might feel encouraged to align ourselves accordingly.
The purpose of the fairy stories here is to urge us to reawaken, re-enliven, re-enchant our very human… very old… mythic relationship with the natural world, ourselves, and each other. These stories are intimate and available to all of us. If you are not already… please consider this your invitation to seek the stories that have been waiting in the wilds for you.