Ley Lines
Ley lines are claimed alignments of ancient sites — old churches, standing stones, mounds — first mapped by Alfred Watkins in 1921 as prehistoric trackways and upgraded by later writers into channels of earth energy. Statistics is unkind: scatter enough points on a map and straight lines volunteer themselves. The archive keeps the term because witnesses keep using it — for the field where compasses sulk, the footpath where three generations report the same watcher, the farm every tenant leaves within two years.
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