Reviewed by Heather Dewhurst – www.kitchenwitchhearth.net

A brilliantly written exploration of some of the most currently taboo subjects! It is eminently readable, as the author has a playful turn of phrase.

Weaving together the threads of evidence from archaeology, sparse documents and current indigenous practices, the author takes the reader to the farthest areas of our past, to delve into their deepest shadows, how this still is relevant to our behaviours today.   

Lee Morgan provides us with the material to see how it is now recognised that from Neanderthal to Denisovan to sapiens, there were no clear divides and distinctions, as was once thought.  That our furthest ancestors are a combination of all these, so raising the question of whether our ‘reptilian’ brain, the basal ganglia, the structure in control of our innate self-preservation behaviour patterns, which ensures our survival and that of our species, is our species inheritance from our Neanderthal forebears.

This book is illuminating, challenging and thought provoking.

People of the Outside by Lee Morgan

Taste the Forbidden History.

Witchcraft owned your skin before you ever knew you did. You slipped into it down the drain-pipe of a birth cord, and it had you sewn into the flesh-purse of your baby hide. Many tales have come down to us over the past few hundred years, stories of outsiders reflected in a mirror darkly. The People of the Outside is a different sort of history, some of the deepest buried sediment to be found in a cave and sifted for traces of the past. It is a history of the dust. It pulls apart binaries and invites us to use our hybrid brains – every tool, from science to intuition – to untangle the elf-locks that endure as a clever-cord, an elongated witch’s ball, one that reaches all the way back to our own almost extinct ancestors. Welcome to the witchcraft of the dispossessed, from the almost until recently forgotten forebears to eating people, and an unflinching examination of what it means to be a person of the outside.

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