Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

St Ives Harbour Fish Market: courtesy of https://www.cornwalls.co.uk   Another tale from Robert Hunt’s ‘Popular Romances of the West of E...

  There’s a story in The Mabinogion about a girl who is changed into an owl. The magicians Gwydion and Math ap Mathonwy create her out...

    This is a tale told in Robert Hunt ’s ‘ Popular Romances of the West of England, or The Drolls, Superstitions and Traditions of Old Corn...

  I've been reading a lot of Irish and Scots fairy tales or wonder tales lately and have been struck, as often before, by the sheer beau...

  A story from Formosa (now Taiwan) recorded in the Folk Lore Journal 1887 (Vol 5 p 139) tells how seven brothers, banished from their home,...

  Folklore tells that the mountain ranges of Skye named the Red and Black Cuillins were named after the Irish hero Cuchulain, who came there...

  Some time ago I was sitting in a pub garden watching a little boy of about three trying to play Aunt Sally - a game rather like skittles w...