Whether you’re interested in the the history of the British countryside or geographic occultism, the archaeology of pre-Roman Britain, British folklore, or you simply enjoy hillwalking in the United Kingdom, you’ve likely heard “ley lines” mentioned by someone or come across the term somewhere in your reading.
We’ve all no doubt heard of alchemy – the quasi-magical practice from the Europe’s mist-shrouded past through which curiously dressed old European men sought to turn lead into gold. However as with many such practices from Europe’s medieval and early modern period, it wasn’t quite as simple as what the popular understandings of it would have it to be. Sir Issac Newton was involved with it, as were the polymaths Thomas Harriot and John Dee, as well as a number of other persons of historical note. What exactly they did in the practice of it is another matter.