Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

In ‘A Book of Folk-Lore’ (1913) the Devon folklorist Sabine Baring-Gould recounts three instances in which he and members of his fam...

  All voyages are voyages of discovery; all voyages are dangerous. Even in these days when cruise liners are thought of as little more than ...

  This wonderful poem attributed to Finn was translated by Lady Augusta Gregory in Gods and Fighting Men (John Murray, 1904), and is part...

  This is just to give notice that a week today, on Saturday 25th November at 8pm GMT, I'll be giving an online lecture for the wonderfu...

  Following my series of posts on 'Enchanted Sleep and Sleepers' (see links: #1 , #2 and #3 ), here is a sort of appendix: three t...