In the company of dragons: experiments in parafolklore

Sussex Coils and Loops by Paul Holman

The snaky, tricksy nature of this work was revealed before reading it proper. On learning that the cover glyph is derived from the serpentine motorcross track at the edge of St Leonard’s Forest near Horsham, West Sussex, I turned to Google Maps for clarification, but instead (accidentally?) zoomed in on the Dragon pub in the nearby village of Colgate. A…