Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

This is the first of an occasional series of 'Folklore Snippets' - little tales which pleased me and I hope will please you.  In hon...

by Lucy Coats   Baba Yaga by mythic artist Rima Staines The Bear Moon is risen, and here comes the Baba Yaga in her iron mortar, rowin...

Like the smell of woodsmoke – which always takes me back to a narrow sun-striped Majorcan street lined with tall houses, silent in the after...

by Mary Hoffman I’m a great believer in the idea that everyone has their own personal myth or, if you like, fairy tale. It doesn’t mean it...

In Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels (in case anyone here doesn’t already know), deep in the enclaves of Unseen University is the Universit...

by Susan Price Little Red Riding Hood by Walter Crane As a child, I heard the usual fairy-stories – a 'Cinderella' derived fro...

Myths (so runs the myth) belong to past ages, when people were naïve enough to believe in them. Today, in scientific modern times, we’ve ...