Hiding in a village cut off from the outside world, a pagan community has strict laws established by a druid, where disobedience is penalized by death. A young man, Pagey, an orphan raised by a beekeeper, lives a life according to the rules like every-one else until strangers appear in the village. The world ceases to be the same. Within a year, from Samhain to Samhain, Pagey changes, revealing and realizing macabre mysteries of this miniature ‘Paradise’ and the secret of his birth.
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Анна Ефименко. Eight knots
Chapter 1. The Day of the Dead. October 31/November 1. Samhain
Chapter 2. Winter solstice. December 21. Yule
Chapter 3. Candles Holiday. February, 2. Imbolc
Chapter 4. Vernal equinox. March 21. Ostara
Chapter 5. Bonfires Festival. April 30/May 1. Beltane
Chapter 6. Summer solstice. June 21. Litha
Chapter 7. Harvest feast. August 1. Lughnasadh
Chapter 8. Autumnal equinox. September 21. Mabon
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He had to run fast.
How quickly he had to run now! By the river meander, at a sharp angle, accompanied by squelching of mud under his soles, the croaking of frogs coming from the marshes, into the wind, which brought nothing but fog.
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“Before we start to celebrate the festivity, I ask each of you, who called the Gevers into our lands?”
The herb-woman stood up and having straightened her green dress, answered defiantly,
