The White Stag of Merseyside

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There has always been a tendency for man to be guided by things that felt quite ‘not of this world’. Taking the form of ‘signs’, whether natural or supernatural, such guiding forces are now decried as mere superstitions; a heresy to the enlightened objective order.

Nevertheless, those “irrational” superstitions, rooted in an almost primal ambiguity of the ways of the universe, augmented by individual perception and solidified in the public conscience accordingly, once acted as a significant governing force in human behaviour. Understood and adopted across time by all classes and creeds, superstitions informed and warned those who received them of challenge, hardship, and change; irrespective of whether such events materialised as ‘good’ or ‘bad’.