The Legend of Bessie Long before Carrara had markets, before roads wound through the bush, there stood an ancient fig tree. She became known as Bessie. The old folklore tells of three women. Winnie. Ginny. Minnie. They were known throughout the district as wise women—keepers of old ways, healers, herbalists and guardians of knowledge that had been whispered from mother to daughter for generations. Each Solstice, Equinox and Blood Moon, they would leave their homes in silence, as though called by