This curious ritual structure - found alongside a path running through the dense woods atop Burn Hill - is a sure sign that the Folk of the Black Bowers have been about their work. Whilst the signficance of such assemblages is known only to those versed in the esoteric language of those Folk, for other local residents their appearance is a cause of dread and anxiety, portending as they typically do some terrible calamity (the body of a neighbor found hanging in the woods; the disappearance of a child; a beloved pet found mutilated in a ritualistic fashion).
The Folk of the Black Bowers, however, are possessed of such foresight that they understand these tragedies as parochial: nothing but a necessay part of the symbolic grammar of the spell they weave - a spell whose completion will lend itself to a final unravelling of the world, and thus to the absolute and irreversible cessation and erasure of all things.
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