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Wisht Maen, Devon Earth Mysteries Magazine submitted by traceyramsbottom : The cover of Wisht Maen Issue 5 (Vote or comment on this photo)
Tracey Ramsbottom (nee Brown) writes: I produced and edited the Devon earth mysteries magazine Wisht Maen between 1993-1996. I have now scanned and made all the issues available to download via the Megalithic Portal. The issues feature some fantastic artwork by Anna Clarke and some very interesting articles by Paul Broadhurst, Cheryl Straffon, Andy Norfolk, Jeremy Harte, Pete Glastonbury and others.

I was and am really proud of Wisht Maen and I was sorry to leave Devon. There were only five issues but I felt I could no longer produce a magazine about Devon if I did not live there. [Issue 3 particularly stands out as a beautiful example of small press magazine layout before desktop publishing took over. See some page examples below - MegP Ed]

Please include my email address on the pages as I would love to make contact with my old subscribers, contributors and artists. I now have a different surname from when I edited WM.

Some time ago Angie Lake contacted me concerning back copies. I cannot remember how she found me - I think I typed in Wisht Maen to Google and found some hits about it, one of which was on the Megalithic Portal, so I registered for an account and replied to her. I have since had a few more enquiries about back copies and I have finally got round to scanning them in.

I have not been able to trace Anna Clarke, whose artwork was so beautiful, and there's a strong chance she uses your website so it would be wonderful to link up with her again.

Tracey Ramsbottom (nee Brown) [email protected] or contact me via my Portal ID of traceyramsbottom

Here is the link to view and download Issues 1 to 5 of Wisht Maen the Devon Earth Mysteries Magazine.

Contents

No 1 WINTER 1993

Editorial p1
Brentor - Hill Of Vision - Paul Broadhurst p2
Crop Circles In Devon - Pete Glastonbury p5
The Omphalos of Devon p10
Prehistoric Carvings Discovered p16
Book Reviews p17
Wistmans Wood p18
The Fairies - Iris Andrews p24
Pattern Of The Stones - Cheryl Straffon p25
Exchange Magazines & Ads Listings p27


No 2 SPRING 1994

Editorial p1
Signposts in Nymetland - Hugh H Franklin p2
Andy Norfolk on Nymets p7
News p8
Bride Ascending - Anna Clarke (Illustration) p11
In Search of Bride in Devon - Christine Kitt p12
Letters from William Saxton, Sarah McCabery, Christina Green, p16
Dartmoor Walks p22
Gods and Goddesses of Devon - Cheryl Straffon p23
East Devon Ways - Steven Shipp p26
Exchange Magazines & Ads Listings p28


No 3

Editorial Tintagel and the Arthurian Mythos - Paul Broadhurst
The Tinners' Rabbits, a Dartmoor Mystery - Jeremy Harte
Plymouth's Ancient Trackways - Mary Coombs
Letters from Annie Craze, Bronwen Griffiths, Jeremy Harte, Cheryl Straffon, William Saxton
Spinsters' Rock - Hugh Franklin
Book Reviews
Miles and Megalithic Yards - Hugh Franklin
East Devon Ways - Steven Shipp


No 4

Editorial
On the Trail of the Black Dog - Jeremy Harte
Sacrifice and the Wheels of Fire - Mary Coombs
A Sacred Bus Journey - Tracey Brown
East Devon ways: Hillforts - Steven Shipp
Letters: debate about mysterious carvings on the Drizzlecombe Menhir and an ongoing debate about between Cheryl Straffon and Jeremy Harte. Also Kenneth Ashburner, Paul Rendell, William Saxton, Bernard Guile, Debbie Griffiths, W L Julyan from Cotehele House, Rowan from Redditch, Stanley Drew, Andy Norfolk
Book Reviews
Magazine Reviews (a very good run-down of all the small press magazines of the day)
News
Exchange Listings


No 5 (1998)

Editorial
Frithelstock Priory p1
Book Reviews p3
Hounds, Hollow Hills and Ancient Ways - Mary Coombs p4
Cadbury Castle p8
Book Reviews p9
The Way Of The Dead p10
Earthstars And Dartmdor Runes p16
Book Reviews p17

Note: A reminder about this run of folklore small press magazines we first made available in 2013. I've improved the PDFs and added embedded text (which is mostly readable but a bit flaky in places)

Wisht Maen, Devon Earth Mysteries Magazine
Wisht Maen, Devon Earth Mysteries Magazine submitted by traceyramsbottom : Issue 3 particularly stands out as a beautiful example of pre-desktop small press publishing 'cut and paste' magazine production - MegP Ed (Vote or comment on this photo)

Wisht Maen, Devon Earth Mysteries Magazine
Wisht Maen, Devon Earth Mysteries Magazine submitted by traceyramsbottom : An illustrated poem from Issue 3 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Wisht Maen, Devon Earth Mysteries Magazine by Tuatha on Tuesday, 10 January 2023
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Wonderful work from the long ago time - when people did not need IT & the environmentally expensive & destructive server 'farms', just effort, application and belief in what they did.
Joy in ones work is its own reward.
Thank you so much for having put them up on the Net.
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Re: Wisht Maen, Devon Earth Mysteries Magazine by Andy B on Monday, 11 November 2013
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Some people have had trouble getting the Google Drive link to work so I've uploaded the Wisht Maen files somewhere else as well:

http://mega.nz/folder/uE40CaRQ#13WRn5whxBSajV4bVI2nTQ
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    Re: Wisht Maen, Devon Earth Mysteries Magazine by AngieLake on Tuesday, 12 November 2013
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    Excellent Andy. I have finally been able to download them and shall look forward to reading them before long!
    Great art work.

    Thank you
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Re: Wisht Maen, Devon Earth Mysteries Magazine by AngieLake on Friday, 14 June 2013
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Correction: I think Tracey originally saw the comment I wrote regarding Nymets on the 'Druids Temple' site page in 2005:
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=874

(What a job I had to remember the name of that one!! I was entering 'Druids Circle' in Search with no luck, and finally ended up searching my photos list.)
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Re: Wisht Maen, Devon Earth Mysteries Magazine by AngieLake on Friday, 14 June 2013
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Thank you so much for scanning these for us all to share, Tracey. I am looking forward to a quiet rainy afternoon to sit here and read through all of them, once I've finished another project I've put off for a while.
The art work is lovely.

I still have a copy of our first contact in my Nymet area/ Celtic Sanctuary research files.
On 25th November 2005, Andy passed on to me and Peter Herring a message you posted up on Meg P drawing my attention to two little books ('Devon's Sacred Grove', and 'Crediton - The Crossing of the Lines'). You must have noticed I'd written about the Nymets on Copplestone Cross site page, and another person (Ken Taylor in Bristol) also asked around that time if I'd had time to check out the area, particularly Bow Henge.
As both sacred grove and henge were mentioned in your Wisht Maen mags I managed to get hold of a couple in Westcountry Studies library in Exeter, as you suggested, and photocopied your great 'A Sacred Bus Journey' article and Hugh...

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Re: Wisht Maen, Devon Earth Mysteries Magazine by Bladup on Wednesday, 12 June 2013
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These are great, Thanks for letting us all see them. The feel of them and artwork are really brilliant, They make me realize how lucky we are down here in Cornwall to still have Meyn Mamvro with us.
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Re: Wisht Maen, Devon Earth Mysteries Magazine by Andy B on Wednesday, 12 June 2013
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Many thanks Tracey for making these archive issues available to download. We will be featuring some of the contents in forthcoming weeks. Something I found interesting was a run-down and brief review in Issue 4 (page 30) of some of the other ‘Earth Mysteries’ magazines of the mid 1990s:

Meyn Mamvro
Mercian Mysteries
3rd Stone (on issue 20 at the time)
Northern Earth (no. 61)
The Dragon Chronicle
Fortean Times
Pendragon
Celtic Connections

I am not sure why Bob Trubshaw’s ‘At the Edge’ or the Ley Hunter weren’t mentioned but the above should generate some nostalgia for older visitors from the EM scene.
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    Re: Wisht Maen, Devon Earth Mysteries Magazine by traceyramsbottom on Monday, 01 July 2013
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    Andy, the magazines you list are the ones I exchanged with and The Ley Hunter didn't want to, (exchange that is) although I did ask. Bob Trubshaw had not yet started At The Edge (I exchanged with his Mercian Mysteries). Also exchanged with The Cauldron, White Dragon...good days! Many of the mags I owned have disappeared sadly, as I lent them to a bloke who was living in Newton Abbot, and he never returned them. He had the infamous claim of "being kicked out of the Torbay Pagan Circle because they said I smelt"- one of the funniest lines I've ever heard; and one which I must try to shoehorn into a book/play one day.
    As Editor of Wisht Maen I had many strange and off-the-wall encounters and letters; a memorable one was a guy from Scotland who studied UFOs and wanted to pitch his tent in my back garden; a psychic dowser who was told to go around Devon collecting spirits who were stuck on the earthbound plane; and a guy who was a crop circle nutter who lured me all the way over to Torquay on a promise of showing me a genuine crop circle; turned out to be suspiciously fashioned by human hands and he was more keen to try and sell me old bits of furniture his kids had grown out of (broken bunk beds leap to mind). Always great fun driving around Devon and Cornwall delivering the new issues to the retail outlets and catching up with the bonkers shop owners. Still get out on "quests" when I can, looking up old/forgotten standing stones and wells and Green Men. Not far from Glastonbury now so go there occasionally to visit the lesser known sites; and always get speechless at the old tat for sale (I call it Wilkinsons Witchcraft) - bri-nylon wizard capes and plastic altar ornaments)
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