Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

Happy Christmas, happy holidays to all of you.   May the next year bring you all good things.  To celebrate the season, here's an extrac...

Stealing Cream for Butter   From Scandinavian Folklore, ed William Craigie 1896 Here’s a Norse version of the Sorcerer’s Appre...

The Rich and the Poor A tale of Peig Mhóron from the Great Blasket   Taken from ‘The Western Island’ by Robin Flower, Clarendon...

by Lily Hyde It's more than a year now I’ve been on the road. I’ve spent most of my adult life in other countries than the one I...

by Candy Gourlay Are there such things as fairy tales in the Philippines where I grew up?  If a fairy tale requires a fairy, then no - w...

by Pauline Fisk My whole life has been spent trying to bring together ‘real life’ and the world of fantasy, in particular by fin...

The Fisher and the Merman From Scandinavian Folklore, ed William Craigie, 1896 Here’s a nice story about inter-species co-...