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Illustration
No.14
“In the Footsteps of Dawn” |
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Jeff and I passed a pair of Dartmoor ponies as we left
Froggymead on our way to the far edge of the forest. The
horses were squat, shaggy, and docile, but didn’t
let us near enough to touch them. I was reminded of the
legends of the Unicorn and also of the Phooka, the Scottish
shapeshifting fairy that sometimes appears in the form
of a horse which offers drunks a ride home, only to take
them careening through the countryside and dumping them
in a ditch, where the unfortunate riders are found the
next morning by the constabulary—or in the best of
the stories—their wives. The pine needles obscuring
the pony’s eye in this photo give the picture extra
Phooka undertones.
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