womanries

Updated: June 26, 2025

It is, of course, easy to give both mythology, and 'the science of spectres, the go by. But antiquaries will be inquiring, and these pursuits are more than mere 'antiquarian old womanries'. We follow the stream of fable, as we track a burn to its head, and it leads us into shy, and strange scenes of human life, haunted by very fearful wild-fowl, and rarely visited save by the credulous.

Andrew Lang - Cock Lane and Common-Sense