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on Jun 18, 2019
This essay was originally published nearly two years ago in the 12th issue of Gramarye, Winter 2017(It will take you a while to read! đ ) Maid Maleen (Kinder- und Hausmärchen, tale 198) isnât particularly popular as fairy tales go. It wa...
on Mar 12, 2019
On a brief trip to visit friends and relations in Yorkshire and Manchester last October, I began encountering an unsettling number of severed heads. Not real ones of course. Stone heads, with an archaic, Celtic vibe. The one pictured above I've...
on Feb 12, 2019
Talking with a group of Girl Guides a while ago, we fell (as you do) into a discussion about house spirits. The best known example, annoyingly enough, is Dobby the house-elf from J.K. Rowlingâs Harry Potter series. I have a soft spot for hous...
on Dec 20, 2018
The village of Malham in the Yorkshire Dales is set in a landscape of remarkable natural beauty which includes the great curved cliff of Malham Cove and the dramatic narrow gorge of Gordale Scar. Turner painted Malham Cove (see above) and Wordsworth...
on Dec 13, 2018
[A Christmas Eve tale from Scandinavian Folklore, William Craigie, 1896]At Ottesund Ferry on Limfjord there was a ferryman whose name was Reimer. He had gone all the way to Copenhagen to get a licence to allow him to ferry over the Sound. It took him...
on Dec 7, 2018
This wonderful little city stands, as if sprung from the soil, in a neighbour's garden. It reminds me of the medieval French city of Carcassonne, whose name was used by Lord Dunsany for a faerie city in one of his tales, though rather oddly he seems...
