Katherine Langrish Archives - Cathrin Hagey https://www.cathrinhagey.com/tag/katherine-langrish/ Author and Blogger Tue, 07 Oct 2025 17:25:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 67173325 An Interview with Katherine Langrish:  Author and Folklorist https://www.cathrinhagey.com/an-interview-with-katherine-langrish-author-and-folklorist/ Thu, 10 Jul 2025 01:12:33 +0000 https://www.cathrinhagey.com/?p=5735 Since 2009, Katherine Langrish has been the creator of the outstanding blog Seven Miles of Steel Thistles where she shares her thoughts and fascinating anecdotes related to her literary and folkloric interests.

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]]> 5735 Beware: Fox https://www.cathrinhagey.com/beware-fox/ Mon, 10 Jun 2019 11:47:17 +0000 https://www.cathrinhagey.com/?p=4473 A mother fox dug under the old barn now used as a storage shed. Some of us think she has eight kits; one person counted nine. She’s raising her little ones beside a well-used path to the arena where riders on horseback pass several times a day. The boldest of the kits sun themselves as […]

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]]> 4473 “The Girl Who Followed the North Star” by Katherine Langrish https://www.cathrinhagey.com/the-girl-who-followed-the-north-star-by-katherine-langrish/ Sat, 21 Dec 2013 19:37:24 +0000 https://www.cathrinhagey.com/?p=3123 “Every microcosm, every inhabited region, has a centre; that is to say, a place that is sacred above all.” –Mircea Eliade Take the North Star, the staff of life, and the sacred centre (axis mundi, perhaps the forerunner to the Christmas tree) and and what do you have?…a beautiful story by Katherine Langrish, posted on […]

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]]> 3123 Brownies, Hobs and Tricks of the Mind https://www.cathrinhagey.com/brownies-hobs-and-tricks-of-the-mind/ https://www.cathrinhagey.com/brownies-hobs-and-tricks-of-the-mind/#comments Sun, 20 Feb 2011 20:00:54 +0000 https://www.cathrinhagey.com/?p=1292 My husband and I both have some Irish heritage. He also has English blood. My heritage is also a mixed bag of Scottish and Swiss-German Mennonite. My Mennonite ancestors sought refuge from religious persecution in Pennsylvania, and later left for what is now the Kitchener-Waterloo area in Ontario. Recently, I was playing around with my […]

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