death omens
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Companion to Journal Entry VI, this field study examines the White Lady said to foretell Hohenzollern deaths, showing that Kunigunde of Orlamünde apparently had no children to murder, that Perchta of Rožmberk speaks for herself in surviving letters, and that Jacob Grimm’s goddess theory for Germany’s pale women remains unproven.
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A scholarly chronicle of the will-o’-the-wisp, tracing the marsh-light across European fens, the American South, and Asia. Examines its natural chemistry, its funereal folklore, its role as omen and lure, and its near-extinction with the draining of the wetlands that once gave it life.