 | | 2014-06-09 06:17
From blog The Secondhand Years
She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls
In Welsh mythology, there is a legend about Blodeuwedd , a woman created out of flowers. I always think of this as my Blodeuwedd dress; I feel as though I am growing out of the ground. Fanciful today, no? I only know about this myth through one of my favourite children's books, The Owl Service , by Alan Garner. It's a sparsely-written, haunting book, published in 1967, seething with class prejudice, tensions between the Welsh and the English, a disturbing atmosphere, and a background of mythical sexual rivalry. I'm not sure I got all that when I read it as a kid, but revisiting it as an adult was an...
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