One of the last episodes in the Tangentially Speaking podcast with Christopher Ryan had Lisa Menna as guest, who turned out to be a fascinating individual for r...
Fairies are a well-known staple of folklore and modern children's literature: supernatural beings who were thought by people of previous ages to inhabit the pas...
When my friend and colleague Joshua Cutchin says he's into faeries, he really, really means it.
Really.
His two previous books A Trojan Feast and The Brim...
Dr Simon Young and Dr Ceri Houlbrook are the contributing editors of Magical Folk: British and Irish Fairies, 500 AD to the Present, published by Gibson Square ...
Sleep paralysis is a well-known syndrome where, usually during the the transition into and out of sleep, the muscles of the body become paralysed, and in many c...
THE SECRETS OF THE SECRETS OF THE SECRETS
I remembered that it was on that hill that nurse taught me to play an old game called 'Troy Town,' in which one had t...
HBO, 2016ce, 117mins.
Director; Irene Taylor Brodsky. Broadcast 23 January 2017.
(Art by Joe Coleman)
There is a concept in the consideration of supposedly ‘non...
Forget the Disney fairies of modern fiction...in the talk below, Prof. Ronald Hutton goes back before Shakespeare and Pope defined the modern, fictional fairy, ...
On Saturday the 2nd of April 2016 Calderstones Mansion in Calderstones Park, Liverpool was home to #SpiritsOfPlace. This was a multidisciplinary symposium with ...
As the Easter weekend draws close, children and adults alike anticipating a chocolate egg binge, the internet is alive with articles on the "true" origins of Ea...
