Nature and the Supernatural

The natural world is intertwined with supernatural beings—water elves, sun and moon fairies, and talking animals—who influence human fate, emphasizing a universe where nature and magic are deeply connected.

Personified Sunbeams and Moonbeams, talking birds, and the magical origin of the opal.

Nature and the Supernatural is one of the patterns On a Pincushion by Mary De Morgan returns to. The chapter notes above are from this edition’s companions — open those chapters to see how the book stages the idea rather than treating the theme as a slogan.