The Waterwitch Babes presents an unofficial blog tour celebrating the upcoming novel Truthwitch by Susan Dennard. For two weeks, a new post on some aspect of the novel will be featured on one Waterwitch Babes' blog. And every post will feature a question asked by that blogger and Susan Dennard's answer! The tour runs from October 13th to October 26th and there are many giveaways planned for this tour, so check out all our stops!
My post for today's tour stop is a look at the history behind the classical elements - air, earth, fire, water, etc. The witches in Truthwitch all have magic based on the elements, and I thought it would be fun to learn a little more about why these particular elements were thought to form the basis of our world.
Ancient beliefs varied in different parts of the world, but it was usually held that the four basic elements were earth, air, fire and water. That everything could be seen as combinations of those four things. The human body for instance, is made up of all four. All of our bones, tissue, teeth, and hair come from earth. Water makes up all the fluids, as well as mucus and some of the lighter, fluid filled organs like the kidney, liver and the brain. Hollow and porous parts like the lungs, the chest, the arteries come from air. Fire is the original of the biles, enzymes and the heart.
