Incantation

<p>In 1795 the great German thinker Johann Wolfgang von Goethe published a fairytale ‘The Green Snake and the Lily’ in a magazine named <em>Die Horen</em> created by his contemporary Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller. Such tales are also embedded in the far ancestral past in ancient Egyptian tales transcribed by W. M. Flinders Petrie in 1899. For the storyteller Genie Poretzky-Lee this knowledge underpins awareness of an ancient literary genre validating a tradition of short poetic stories.</p><p>The INCANTATION publications facilitate an exploration of this unusual form of writing in a renewed and inspired way alongside Genie’s photographic illustrations.</p><p>Volume 2: </p><p><em>Birds of the Muses</em> is an incantation addressed to the bees calling and asking for their safe return in order that they may help humanity by pollinating lands and crops.</p>