Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

People often assume there aren’t very many English fairy tales.   There are, of course, but they were eclipsed in popularity by t...

There are extraordinary numbers of superstitions about shoes - though most are now unfamiliar to us 21 st century mortals.   Acco...

In another post from the archives, A dèle Geras reflects on one of the best-loved fairy tales of all time and ends with a wonderful p...

It's summertime... so here from the archives is a wo nder fully eerie summer fairy tale by the 19th cent ur y Norwegian writ...