A Witches Natural History by Giles Watson WHOLESALE-HIDE from Darwin’s Voyage of the

from Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle to Richard Dawkins’s The Ancestor’s Tale

its spirits

or Old Joan as she is known

but also in metal

generals and kings

A Witches Natural History by Giles Watson WHOLESALE-HIDE from Darwin’s Voyage of theAuthor: Giles Watson Originally published as a series of essays in The Cauldron, is a meditation on the relationship between folklore and nature. The worlds dogmatic religions all have their devotional texts, and biological science, too, has its own rationalistic equivalents, from Darwins Voyage of the Beagle to Richard Dawkinss The Ancestors Tale. Natural historians have written their works of devotion to the works of nature: a genre which has been