Tag: Dorothy Carrington

A primitive universe, the Corsican one, splendidly described by Carrington in her “Granite Island”. A suspended, rarefied, immobile world, where Christianity has penetrated only superficially and has not affected the profound essence of an atavistic religiosity with shamanic traits, centered on the cult of the Ancestors, on the magical practices of the ecstatic brotherhoods, the Mazzèri, and on a folklore crystallized over the centuries, which speaks to us of the spirits of the dead and of a ghost procession of the "wild hunt" type led by a mysterious "white lady".