What the bee knows : reflections on myth, symbol and story

Introduction. The world of the hero. Two pairs of shoes. Fear no more the heat of the sun. The legacy of the ancestors. If she's not gone, she lives there still. Letter to a learned astrologer. The youngest brother. The primary world. Five women. What the bee knows. The seventh day. Where will all the stories go?. Speak, Lord. Name and no name. Leda's lament. Walking the maze at Chartres. What aileth thee?. Re-storying the adult. The hanged man. Miss Quigley. The way back. Sip no sup and bite no bit. Lucifer. Now, farewell and hail. On unknowing. The garment. Out from Eden. Le chevalier perdu. Lively oracles. The unsleeping eye: a fairy tale. O children of this world!. On forgiving oneself. Zen moments. The interviewer. Well, shoot me!. Monte Perdido. And endless story. The black sheep. A radical innocence. The death of AE: Irish hero and mystic. Grimm's women. Christmas song for a child. About the Sleeping Beauty. The shortest stories in the world. Admit one. Only connect

'Most of the essays in this collection were written for Parabola: The Magazine of Myth and Tradition, an American quarterly of which, since its inception in 1976, P.L. Travers has been a consultant editor. They reflect on her varied experiences as a seeker on the path, melding lovingly gathered crumbs from the Table and re-serving them as nourishment for generations to come....'

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