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Ley lines

Ley lines are pathways of spiritual energy that tend to be aligned along religious and natural landmarks, including churches, megaliths, and burial grounds.

The Raven Cycle[]

The Henrietta ley line, known by local psychics as the "corpse road," is a pathway of magical and electromagnetic energy. Cabeswater, a magical forest, is the heart of the Henrietta ley line. It serves as both a meter for how "energized" the line is, and a center for bizarre magical occurrences, time skips, and visions of the future. The Henrietta ley line is notorious for its strength and known to the magical artifact community as a hotspot for strange occurrences. Henrietta's ley line is implied to have a consciousness as it uses its power to protect important individuals, such as Adam, and it can express its needs through apparitions of the dead, tarot cards, and visions. The line's communications are startling at best, and invasive and traumatizing at worst.

Traditionally, ley lines run above and below ground, with the strength of the energy dissipating the further away one is located from it in any direction. Today, the Henrietta lines' flow is often interrupted by buildings, roads, and mining operations. Therefore, the line often demands to be "unblocked" through moving stones and performing rituals.

The ley lines represent what each person desires most in their lives. By seeing what they are willing to do and what they would ask for, you can see their deepest, darkest desires. Whelk wants to control the ley lines so that he can have all the power and so that everyone will fear and admire him again. Neeve wants to ask the ley lines for power so that she can become the most powerful psychic around. Gansey isn’t power-hungry. Instead, he just wants to use the ley lines to find Glendower so that he can carry out his life’s goal. He doesn’t even know what he would ask Glendower if he found him. He just wants to see why it is his destiny to find Glendower, since he was allowed to cheat death in order to complete this quest.

History[]

The idea was developed in early 20th century Europe, with ley line believes arguing that these alignments were recognized by ancient societies that deliberately erected structures along them. The idea of "leys" as straight tracks across the landscape was put forward by the English antiquarian Alfred Watkins in the 1920s, particularly in his book The Old Straight Track. He argued that straight lines could be drawn between various historic structures and that these represented trade routes created by ancient British societies.

In 1961, Tony Wedd put forward the belief that leys were established by prehistoric communities to guide alien spacecraft. This view was promoted to a wider audience in the books of John Michell, particularly his 1969 word The View Over Atlantis.

Archaeologists note that there is no evidence that ley lines were a recognized phenomenon among ancient European societies and that attempts to draw them typically rely on linking together structures that were built in different historical periods. Archaeologists and statisticians have demonstrated that a random distribution of a sufficient number of points on a plane will inevitably create alignments of random points purely by chance. Skeptics have also stressed that the idea of earth energies running through ley lines has not been scientifically verified.[1]

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