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Re: Unenergetic leys
Nov 22, 2013, 09:52
tiompan wrote:
nigelswift wrote:
tiompan wrote:
Ley lines as originally described by Watkins were routes between A and B when A and B were almost anything old ,from, Neolithic monuments to Iron Age monuments to medieval moats , churches of any period ,wells and even natural features . Incredibly contentious but nevertheless related to actual sites on the ground .


Inevitably contentious because any real ones are inevitably mixed in with zillions of coincidental ones and can't be teased out of them, but I have a feeling they may sometimes exist as they express such likely human behaviour. I'm thinking of the Black Country (not sure if it happens elsewhere) where if you ask the way they always explain it by reference to a long list of pubs on the way! And it works really well. Left at the Lion, right soon after the Bay Horse etc - the resultant route isn't a straight line but it always tends towards one. (Hereford is near so maybe Watkins was inspired by pub leys... )




The Watkins family business was ale .


Another popular theory of the time was the straight lines taken by UFO's , obviously following the ley lines . Orthotonies ? or something similar .
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