Journal of Geomancy and Ancient Mysteries (1976–1981)

Author index to articles and letters

For authors who are no longer alive, birth and death dates are given if known.
An author’s name in italics means that their work in the Journal was copied or translated from another publication.

Adams, David

The Black–Watkins connection

A modern myth

The patchwork principle

Adams, Frederick McLaren  (1928–2008)

Ley line Seismia

In memoriam: a young pioneer of geomantic research [Shandaiya Cobb]

Andrews, John E.

Letter: criticism of Post Office is unjustified

Anjard, Ronald P.

Kenyan stones

Medicine wheels

Pyramids of China

Unique pueblo ‘Stonehenge’ discovered

Kivas – inverted pyramids and observatories

Beamon, Sylvia P. & William A. Clark

An examination of O’Brien’s Wandlebury theories

Behrend, Michael

The round church at Orphir, Orkney

A paradox?

The Alton zodiac

Church alinements around Andover

The dragon as crocodile

Landscape geometry notes

The effect of the Earth’s curvature in ley hunting

Letter: comment on article by Ian Worden

Letter: landscape geometry alignment

—— with Nigel Pennick

The Cambridge 7-church ley

Bell, A.J. (Tony)

Letter: Bob Forrest’s F-unit

Billingsley, John

Hidden attractions of the South Pennine Park – notes on the Hebden Bridge zodiac

Stumbling on cats’ tales in Japan

Japanese geomancy

Letter: comment on Mary Caine’s rules for zodiacs

Letter: landscape effigies of winged bull and hound

Letter: Earth Mysteries should be separate from Paganism

Bloy, Colin H.  (1927–2004)

Telluric lines

Ley phenomena

Letter: dowsing and modern structures

Letter: Nazi and other political geomancy

Bond, Frederick Bligh  (1864–1945)

The ‘Egg Stone’ at Glastonbury Abbey

Brachvogel, A.

The chapel at Drüggelte on the Möhnesee

Brockpaehler, Wilhelm  (1894–1980)

The proclamation-stone in Westphalia

Bullion, Alan

The Kentish megaliths of the Medway area

The underground tunnels of Tonbridge

The dragons of St. Leonard’s Forest, Sussex

The Lyminster dragon

Diodorus’s dragons

Letter: Kit’s Coty; Tonbridge tunnels #1

Letter: Kit’s Coty; Tonbridge tunnels #2

Letter: commercialization of Stonehenge

Burgess, Michael W.

The Bury St. Edmunds zodiac

Rudge’s fudges [“puddingstone track” theory]

Letter: comments on “dragon as crocodile” theory

Caine, Mary  (1916–2008)

Letter: rules for terrestrial zodiacs

Letter: comment on Jim Kimmis’s “reg-” theory

Cambridge Preservation Society

Letter: Wandlebury hill figures

Camden, William  (1551–1623)

Dene holes

Carey, Mollie  (1919–2013)

Letter: landscape effigies of giant heads, etc.

Letter: tableau of landscpe effigies

Castle, Chris, with Paul Screeton

Aert de Gelder’s “UFO” painting

Clark, William A. (Bill)

Letter: rejoinder to C.A.E. O’Brien on Wandlebury

—— with Sylvia P. Beamon

An examination of O’Brien’s Wandlebury theories

Collier, Mike  (1929–1999)

Geomancy in the making

Hyperactivity of leys 1977–1980

Corney, N.V.

Letter: proposed English Dragon Lore Society

Cox, Edward Walker  (1826–1899)

Liverpool Castle

Crook, Simon

Letter: horse-head landscape effigy near Winchester

Letter: “ash” placenames; colours of the four directions

Crump, Barbara  (1912–1981)

The Ilkley swastika and the possible origin of St Michael & St Andrew church dedications

Department of the Environment

Letter: Avebury stones

Letter: stone near Kit’s Coty

Devereux, Paul

Contribution omitted by request

Dewey, John

Letter: ley metrology

Diez, Ernst  (1878–1961)

The mausoleum of Uldschaitu in Sultanijeh

Dineen, Frank  (c.1928–1999)

Letter: dowsing churches and leys

Dymond, Charles William  (1832–1915)

Gunnerkeld stone circle

Editorial (by Nigel Pennick)

Manifesto

Whatever happened to the Maltwood money?

Dragon legends no. 1: Piers Shonkes (Herts.)

I.G.R. stall at the Cambridge Leisure Fair, 1978

Spiritual loss?

Lewis Edwards’s ‘lost’ zodiac

The Cambs. Ley Project (CLP)

Cambridgeshire Ley Project Notes

Radial geometry

The Cambridgeshire Ley Project

IGR dowsing at Hilton turf maze

Eldridge, Æthelred

The sprig of Ely justified as the ensign of Golgonooza

Fisk, A.

Letter: Pumpsaint zodiac

Fletcher, John

Letter: Walsingham and the Milky Way

Flynn, Pat

Letter: books by Morien and Æthelred Eldridge

Forrest, Robert (Bob)

The mathematical case against ley lines and related topics

Some metrological ideas

Comment [on items by Bell and Behrend]

Metrology and chance

Chephren’s pyramid and the search for ancient astronauts

Numerical snarks

Stonehenge revisited

Letter: reply to Keith Raison

Letter: rejoinder to Keith Raison

Letter: modern chapels etc. on leys; terrestrial zodiacs

Gardiner, Alan

Letter: comment on “numerical snarks” article, etc.

Gaskell, John  (1951–2008)

Swastika restored …

Green, Michael

Comet hits!

Grisé, Allan

Letter: optical effects at certain places

Hamilton, Steve

Cuffley zodiac

Virgin and warrior!

Letter: dog effigies near terrestrial zodiacs

Hamkens, Freerk Haye  (1902–1985)

Troytowns

Harper, Clive

Letter: book A Suggestive Inquiry by Attwood and South

Haswell, Bernard William  (1908–1993)

Leys traced by dowsing

Heinsch, Josef  (active 1930s–1970s)

On the rediscovery of pre-Christian geomancy

The holy mountain near Asberg (Moers District): Asciburgium – an old hill of the gods

Heselton, Philip

‘Skyways and Landmarks’ and the Star Fellowship: a chapter in the history of geomancy

Terrestrial zodiacs: a morphological approach

Towards a general theory of terrestrial zodiacs

Hopmann, Josef  (1890–1975)

Researches into orientation

Howard, Mike  (1948–2015)

Letter: Earth Mysteries and Paganism

Hudson, Herbert  (1871–1952)

The meaning of artificial mounds and mark stones

Ibbeken, H.

Extract from: The church in Blexen (Oldenburg)

Jackson, Dan

The zealous hunters of the zodiac

Jones, Prudence

East Anglian church towers

Norfolk round church towers

Numerology

Ley-hunting as orgonomic research

Alfred Lord Tennyson: geomantic chronicler

Geomancy – origins of the word from the Oxford English Dictionary

Letter: comments on article by Stephen Oannes

Karslake, John Burgess Preston  (1868–1942)

Coldharbours

Keansley, John

Letter: ley metrology

Kimmis, Jim  (1954–2006)

Notes on the Ongar zodiac

The numbers game

The point of centre

The king’s highway

Obituary: S.G. Wildman

Iron-Age star map?

The Old English straight track

Letter: Merlin’s Oak, Carmarthen

Letter: date of terrestrial zodiacs

Letter: comment on David Adams’s patchwork principle

Letter: reply to Mary Caine on “reg-”; church dedications

Lambarde, William  (1536–1601)

Map of the beacons in Kent

The beacons in Kent (1596)

Lockwood, Frank  (?–1980)

Letter: ley energies

Lord, Robert  (1931–c.2006)

Terrestrial zodiac research

Lovegrove, Chris

Letter: book A Suggestive Inquiry by Attwood and South

MacFadzean, Patrick

The consecration ceremonies for Liverpool Cathedral examined astrologically and hermetically by both European and Indian methods

MacGilchrist, Ross

An appreciation of Graham Donald’s (Domhnull Gruamach) “Foundations of Islay”

More swastika lore

Mann, Ludovic MacLellan  (1869–1955)

The eclipse in 2983 BC

The “Druids’” Temple near Glasgow

Martin, Peter J.

How wide is a ley?

Letter: Myth of Watkins’s vision has some value

Martin, Valerie

The stone roundels in the floor of Canterbury Cathedral

Michell, John  (1933–2009)

Watkins’s revelation

Michelson, James

Letter: criticism of Post Office is justified

Naselli, Piero

Letter: new village for the Aquarian Age, Sicily

Oannes, Stephen

Background to geomancy

Background to geomancy – II

Letter: possible ley to Stanton Drew

O’Brien, Christian Arthur Edgar (Tim)  (1914–2001)

Wandlebury – C.A.E. O’Brien replies [to Beamon & Clark]

Pennick, Ann

The underground tunnels of Glastonbury

Pennick, Nigel (see also Editorial)

The geomancy of Ely Cathedral

Antoni Gaudí – Catalan geomantic architect

Saxon geometrical ratios in Essex churches

Boundaries, metrology and the implications of ancient remains

Terrestrial zodiacs; iconographical research

Israelitish metrology; or, forgotten ideas which live on as curious survivals today

Masonic arts at Guildford

Woden’s swastika

Note on C.E. Stretton’s Egyptian diamond

The underground tunnel at Fowlmere, Cambridgeshire

Fragments of a universal tradition

Mount Elbruz: a chapter in Nazi geomancy

Dowsing – secret weapon of the Nazi S.S.

Ilkley swastika decoded

The fall of Babylon: or, the wonderful world of the desacralized cosmos revisited

—— & Michael Behrend

The Cambridge 7-church ley

Pennick, Rupert  (1924–1999)

An investigation into the distance of the horizon at various heights

An observation on the Book of Joshua and related events

The history of the metric system

How the masons asserted and flaunted their new-won independence in 13th century France

Letter: Kit’s Coty

Letter: Mother Ludlam, a famous witch

Letter: Christian attitude towards women

Pickering, Andrew

Letter: comment on Old Bolingbroke zodiac

Potter, Daryl

Nuthampstead zodiacs

Preston, Kathryn Jayne

The Lamanche zodiac

Further notes on the Lamanche zodiac

Raison, Keith

Letter: comment on article by Bob Forrest

Letter: rejoinder to Bob Forrest

Letter: comment on Alan Bullion, Lyminster dragon

Ratazzi, Peter

Letter: pavement in baptistery of St. John Baptist, Florence

Reuter, Otto Sigfrid  (1876–1945)

Saxon stars

Russett, Vince

The Bristol zodiac

Virgin & huntsman

Letter: comment on Mary Caine’s rules for zodiacs

Satchwell, S.

Letter: Old Bolingbroke zodiac, Lincs.

Saward, Jeff

Turf mazes

Scott, Michael  (1917–1992)

Letter: Monte San Angelo, Italy

Letter: Hopmann and Velikovsky

Screeton, Paul

Stanley zodiac revelation

My blank pages (my books which might have been)

Insects and megaliths

Letter: Watkins’s vision and other misinformation

—— & Chris Castle

Aert de Gelder’s “UFO” painting

Stedman-Jones, Frederick (Fred)

Liverpool Cathedral chapter house: masonic symbolism

The Nant-eos cup

Stone, Alby

Winchester’s zodiac

Stretton, Clement E.  (1850–1915)

The L. & N.W. Railway Company’s diamond or trade mark

Stringer, David

Dragonslayers

Thomas, Ken

Letter: white horses and landscape geometry

Villiers-Stuart, Patricia  (1910–1998)

Note on C.E. Stretton’s Egyptian diamond

Relationship of maze, magic square of Jupiter and triangle 8:15:17

Letter: numbers and geometry

Watkins, Alfred  (1855–1935)

The proof of ancient track alignment

Wedmore, Gabriel

Note on C.E. Stretton’s Egyptian diamond

Wicks, Harold

Letter: comment on Journal of Geomancy

Wilson, Graham

Letter: Festival of Mind-Body-Spirit versus Northern Festival

Wood, Hermon Gaylord  (1831–1913)

Ideal units: the cubit

Worden, Ian P.

Ley system measurement

Ancient measure