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		<title>Message from an absent Friend</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 11:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mariathermann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really must apologise for not having posted for such a long time &#8211; work commitments and moving out of my home office and into a proper office/artists&#8217; studio have all taken their toll. I&#8217;m generally getting up at 4am and start work soon after&#8230;YAWN. Normal blogging services will resume next month, when I&#8217;ve had [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willowthevampire.com&#038;blog=23776063&#038;post=1390&#038;subd=willowthevampire&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ghostly Paths through dark Forests</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Throughout history unusual features in the landscape have sent human imagination into overdrive, spawning legends, fairy-tales and myths. I’d like to use the next couple of blog posts to investigate this super-charged landscape issue a little further. &#160; My first candidate for natural phenomena are Hohlwege, the German word for well-trodden paths that have literally [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willowthevampire.com&#038;blog=23776063&#038;post=1376&#038;subd=willowthevampire&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Embarrassment of Witches</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 21:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I promised the real Willow, the little girl who is the inspiration for my Willow the Vampire stories, her very own New Year&#8217;s story, so here it is and hopefully you&#8217;ll enjoy reading it! An Embarrassment of Witches   “You’ve got to be kidding me!” Darren’s brown eyes widened at the sight of his best [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willowthevampire.com&#038;blog=23776063&#038;post=1373&#038;subd=willowthevampire&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ghost of Christmas past</title>
		<link>http://willowthevampire.com/2012/12/17/the-ghost-of-christmas-past/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mariathermann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gather around our Word Press hearth and snuggle up for a ghostly tale just right for Christmas, my little pointy-eared vampire elves. Have you all got a toffee apple and gingerbread man to nibble on, while I tell my story? So here it goes: As we have already seen, not all ghosts are intent on [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willowthevampire.com&#038;blog=23776063&#038;post=1350&#038;subd=willowthevampire&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Being a Witch is never easy</title>
		<link>http://willowthevampire.com/2012/12/06/being-a-witch-is-never-easy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 17:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mariathermann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my second novel, Willow the Vampire and the Würzburg Ghosts, I’m using several real historical events as the starting point for my plot. One is the recent discovery of a “witch’s cottage” near Pendle in Lancashire, where in 1612 the infamous Pendle Witch Trials took place. Two men and eight women were hanged as [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willowthevampire.com&#038;blog=23776063&#038;post=1325&#038;subd=willowthevampire&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s not just Hamlet who&#8217;s got the Hump</title>
		<link>http://willowthevampire.com/2012/11/29/its-not-just-hamlet-whos-got-the-hump/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 21:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mariathermann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I bravely struggle on with the next chapter of “Willow the Vampire and the Würzburg Ghosts”, I’m still researching motives ghosts might have for haunting the living. Denmark seemed an unusual choice for the un-dead, but when I started reading up on one of Northern Europe’s most haunted places, I realised it wasn’t just [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willowthevampire.com&#038;blog=23776063&#038;post=1297&#038;subd=willowthevampire&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ghosts in the Cellar? It&#8217;s not Caspar but a little Cavalier</title>
		<link>http://willowthevampire.com/2012/11/20/ghosts-in-the-cellar-its-not-caspar-but-a-little-cavalier/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While over on Maria Thermann’s blog I’m discussing the beauty of northern German Castle Schwerin, the erstwhile residence of the Dukes of Mecklenburg, here at Willow the Vampire’s blog I want to tell you a little bit about the Little Man Peter or, as he’s called in German, the Petermännchen ghost that haunts Castle Schwerin. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willowthevampire.com&#038;blog=23776063&#038;post=1276&#038;subd=willowthevampire&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Small Critters, big Impact</title>
		<link>http://willowthevampire.com/2012/11/13/small-critters-big-impact/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mariathermann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’re writing a paranormal story and are determined to use animals to set the scene, you may want to hold back on the gnashing teeth of wolves, gnawing fangs of killer rats and toothy grins of giant snakes until you&#8217;ve read this. While it’s easy to write something atmospheric and eerie with animals such [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willowthevampire.com&#038;blog=23776063&#038;post=1245&#038;subd=willowthevampire&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ghostly Goings-on</title>
		<link>http://willowthevampire.com/2012/11/02/ghostly-goings-on/</link>
		<comments>http://willowthevampire.com/2012/11/02/ghostly-goings-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 16:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mariathermann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was bravely ploughing on with chapter 4 of my new Willow the Vampire adventure, when I discovered my story was taking a rather unexpected turn. This required me to rethink the entire plot, because to my great annoyance the underlying theme had changed – thanks to my wilful, mischievous protagonist having developed a mind [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willowthevampire.com&#038;blog=23776063&#038;post=1222&#038;subd=willowthevampire&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Animal Magic</title>
		<link>http://willowthevampire.com/2012/10/24/animal-magic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 05:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mariathermann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My apology for the absence of the usual weekly blog entry last week, but I’ve finally started to write up Willow and the Würzburg Ghosts, reaching chapter three this week, yay! Such moments of unbridled creativity must be exploited to the full and not interrupted by other writing work if possible – hence the absence [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willowthevampire.com&#038;blog=23776063&#038;post=1204&#038;subd=willowthevampire&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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