Editors: Terri Windling
and Midori Snyder
Book Reviewers: Helen Pilinovsky
and Elizabeth Genco
Art: from top to bottom
Healing by Mark Wagner
The Ghost in the Hills by John Jude Palencar
Mother Winter by Jeanie Tomanek
Autumn's Last Sigh by Helena Nelson Reed
North wind by Jessie Wilcox Smith
Medicine Cards by Mark Wagner
Letter from the Editor's Desk
“Welcome to our Special Issue focused on tales of illness and calamity, healing and transformation. . . .”
Dark of the Woods:
Rites of Passage Tales
“In an earlier time, a medicine man, shaman, or herb–wife consulted when my illness first appeared might have sat me down and told a story . . .”
Story Telling and Healing
“You are in a continuous symbolic performance, writing the story of your life as you live it. . . .”
Healing the Wounded Wild
“When I became chronically ill, I looked for answers in stories. The story I came back to again and again was the fairy tale Silver Hands . . .”
The Armless Maiden and
The Hero's Journey
“Although I believe that the Armless Maiden narratives are about rites of passage to adulthood, within the story is the troubling echo of abuse . . .”
Jubilee
“When the first shots were fired on the platform, I'd started running, and I hadn't stopped running since . . . ”
How Master Madman Came to
Ch'in Feng Temple
“I am dead, thought Yang. There lies my body. But then how could he be seeing himself?”
Old Wives Tales: Women's Fairy Tale Art
Miracles in the Backlands: Aspects of Africa in Brazilian Ex–Voto Sculpture
“Frequently, but not always, in the form of body parts, ex–votos represent the nature of the petitioner's problem . . .”
What If Words Had Guardian Angels
From the Archives: On Healing and Transformation
Brother and Sister: A Matter of Seeing
Shimchong, the Blindman's Daughter