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Another Modnetic murmuration: The Wizard Clip
“Woods are not like other spaces. They make you feel small… They are a vast featureless nowhere. And they are alive.” - Bill Bryson
Travelling as a British Gay man with my boyfriend in West Virginia in the 1980s grew increasingly less comfortable the further West and South we got. We bailed in the foothills, in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Never did get to see that Lonesome Pine.
But as fearful of the people and the side eyes they gave us as we were, the fear and strange glamour of the woods was greater. Despite this, I was - I am - drawn to them, knowing how easy it would be to get really, seriously, maybe lethally, lost in them, especially in those days before GPS and mobiles, in landscapes on an American, not a British scale. And so many creepy tales too, in cheap pamphlets and guidebooks on dusty racks in the drugstores and gas stations we were stopping at. Cryptids, maniacs and murderers, gangsters, bootleggers, and ghosts. Indicating if nothing else a certain self awareness in the locals about how outsiders were apt to characterise them. Still, if my outsiders toes-deep dip in the terrain was anything to go by, there is genuinely something… inward, and dark in Appalachia. It is a place made for folk horrors. Like this one.
Follow Opequon Creek to the village of Middleway, West Virginia, at the foot of those steep-sided brooding mountains, and you will encounter The Wizard Clip - the legend of a Protestant man who in 1794 denied a sick Catholic stranger the services of a priest for his last rites. After the stranger died, it is said that candles would not stay lit in the room his corpse had lain, sounds of horses galloping and crockery breaking were heard, and burning embers jumped from the fireplace hearth. Most notably: sounds of heavy shears making clipping noises were heard and fabric, sheets, and boots were found inexplicably clipped into half-moon shapes and other figures. Terrified, the guilty man converted to Catholicism, and even donated land to the church to make amends, the so-called Priests Field, which you can still visit. Maybe he found peace in that. But according to the doubtless unreliable narrator of the little town walking guide you can buy in Middleway, certain… phenomena … are said to persist in the locality to this day.
One thing is objectively observable. Plenty of houses in the little village feature a version of the plaque above: a half moon, a pair of scissors. The Wizard Clip. Whether in commemoration, or as a ward against… something , though? That is difficult to say.
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lol, your mind is full of the esoteric and arcane. That’s good.
Some of my favorite vinyl albums in my youth have beautifully written “liner notes” often written by
music critics like Leonard Feather or a particular favorite of mine on a Miles Davis “Greatist Hits” album:
https://www.ivy-style.com/the-warlord-of-the-weejuns.html
The mix of incredible music and some pithy commentary was such a treat. The passage of time and the
shift in media formats (cassette tapes, CD’s, streaming) has made such literary inclusions with a product package that leaves me feeling like the “single” is the dominant product offering.
But, here we have that wonderful combo “two-fer’’: a musical entre with a side of literary art. Nice. It scratches all my itches.
More excellence, Svetlovska. And true to your thoughts this work could seamlessly soundtrack the likes of ‘True Detective’ S1 which leans heavily into the mentioned folklore. Love it.
Excellently crafted darklore!
Came for the "noise", stayed for the blurb 🔥 🔥
Beautiful music and a lovely accompanying story, thank you, from the bottom of my heart!
Came for the blurb, stayed for the “noise” ✂️🌗
Absolutely lovely. I got lost in it. In Reykjavik they would say “I come completely from the mountains.”