Films like the original Wicker Man, Midsommar. Witch, Apostle, The Ritual. These films explore the idea that in places of the world the old ways connected to the land and the past may still exist. This has been a genre that’s always had a steady following in the U.K., as for centuries god fearing folk have found relics in the hills or ploughed up in fields of a time before Christianisation, we were something else. Not necessarily evil but different, and for much longer than the way things are now.
And as I grew up in a part of the world peppered with hill forts, stone circles and burial mounds, it’s always been easy to let my imagination drift.
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I live in an area where finding ancient ruins, cliff dwellings, petroglyphs and geoglyphs is common and many that are seldom visited by humans. Many of them the presence of the ancients can still be felt and even heard at times.
@Ferric67 What surprises me are how many of them are out there, scattered around in hard to get to places. It's not uncommon for me to find corn cobs on the floors of the cliff dwellings that are 600-900 yrs old. You can still see fingerprints in the caliche they used to plaster the walls that could still be used in a forensics case. And the cliff faces and boulders covered in petroglyphs are jaw dropping.
