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Annette Herfkens in Peru in 1983 with her fiance Willem van der Pas, who was killed in the plane crash she miraculously survived
Everyone’s had that thought when the plane gets a bit spirited: what would you do if it fell out of the sky? In 1992, Annette Herfkens and her fiance were flying from Ho Chi Minh City to the Vietnamese coast. Forty minutes in, the worst happened. She awoke in a jungle with her fiance dead and the cries of the severely injured around her. She was ultimately the sole survivor of 25 passengers and six crew. She had “12 broken bones in her hip and knee alone”. Somehow, she managed to hang on until help came – and much later, worked out the “textbook” behaviour she believed helped her survive.
, as the internet sends it mainstream , recasting this “loosely defined constellation of faiths” for another generation.“To be in a circle, to have a huge bel-fire and to jump the ashes into the full summer, it’s very life-enhancing,” says Adrian Rooke, a druid from the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids . Show me the lie.Five minutes! Less time than it takes to cast a moderately thorough spell!
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