Sgeulachdan: Tales from The Scottish Highlands and Hebridean Islands

The vestiges of where tales were once told ... Lonely House in the Highlands by Akinom

People have been fond of telling and hearing stories in the Scottish Highlands and Hebridean islands since time immemorial, known in Gaelic as Sgeulachdan.

Suffragette Mary de Morgan: England’s First Feminist Fairy Tale Writer?

On a Pincushion, and Other Fairy Tales, 1877 by Mary De Morgan

Ask anyone for the names of the great fairy tale tellers, But hardly anyone will mention Mary de Morgan, Pre-Raphaelite, suffragette, and one of England’s first feminist fairy tale writers.

Sardinian Folklore: Gino Bottiglioni’s Tales of Giants and Fairies, Elves and Plagues

Mural in Sardinia https://pixabay.com/en/sardinia-murales-murals-art-223377/

have a confession to make: I’m a bibliophile. I have a small collection of very, very old books and still count the moment I touched a middle ages herbal worth more than my apartment as a highlight of my life. I mean, this surely doesn’t come as a shock here on #FolkloreThursday, albeit it does […]

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