Lore and Literature

Don Quioxte and Les Trois Mousquetaires You are what you read. This is especially true if you are Don Quioxte! He read so much about ...

Kelpies are malevolent shape-shifting creatures that usually appear as horses (often black). When an unsuspecting person sees and mounts a ...

Both the words fay and fairy are derivatives of the Latin word fata which means the Fates. In Greek mythology, the Fates were the three ...

So, today's subject will be much shorter and less heady than my last post. Just some observations from The Moorchild and The Spiderwick ...

I wrote this for a class in response to a question about supporting roles. Supporting Characters Like buttresses in cathedrals, the suppo...

In the tale of  "Oisin in Tir Na nOg," the hero Oisin (euh-sheen) travels across a sea on a white steed with the fairy woman Niamh...

Today I'm going to tell you about brownies! When you hear the word "brownie" what do you think of? Probably a luscious dense c...