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By Tony Locke

conventional hedgerows are swiftly vanishing from our geographical region. With their disappearance, we lose not just their wildlife but in addition the stories and folklore that experience constantly surrounded them.

This ebook files those tales earlier than they disappear from reminiscence. With chapters devoted to particular crops or animals, we find out about the folklore of the hedgehog, the badger, woodmouse, thrush, wren, bumblebee, hawthorn, foxglove and hazel and plenty of more.

These are stories of knowledge and magic that aid us to achieve a better figuring out of the wildlife we are living in and which motivate us to stay in nearer concord with that world.

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