I think I get your drift. But bear in mind it's a story – it's fiction. In fact it has a lot in common with a whodunnit: pulling threads together, making connections. Everything has significance, a deeper meaning. Even the characters are symbols rather than real personalities. The challenge is to make sense of it all. It's not a credo, but a narrative convention. Whether folklore operates like that in the real world is not, I don't think, relevant to the book's imaginative world. Unless you're writing kitchen sink fiction, authors have a bit of latitude to play with.

I didn't realise I was implying Moonwise would deliver its readers a mystic epiphany. I'm still waiting for mine.