Fact or Fiction? The Fate of the Witchfinder General

William Powell Frith: The Witch Trial (1848) https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15179244.

here is no name from the period of England’s witch trials more infamous than that of Matthew Hopkins, the self-styled witchfinder who was instrumental in the witch-panic that swept East Anglia in the middle of the 17th century.

Some Words About ‘The Quiet Music’ from Jackie Morris

String of Stars © Jackie Morris

At present I am tangled in brambles and ivy, steeped in acorns and oak and painting the rhythm of the air as it moves through the feathers of a raven’s wing. I am working, as ever, on a new book, The Lost Words, written by Robert MacFarlane, illustrated by me, to be published by Hamish […]

Welsh Mythology and Storytelling: Telling the Mabinogion

In the nineteenth century, Lady Charlotte Guest (with a team of Welsh scholars) translated a series of stories from Welsh into English. It was she who gave them the collective title ‘The Mabinogion’.

Iceland’s Hidden People: Finding All That’s Lost

Frozen Giants by Pexels https://pixabay.com/photos/cold-frozen-glacier-ice-iceberg-1866516/ cold-frozen-glacier-ice-iceberg

A land’s topography speaks of the forces that have formed it and how it has endured; in Iceland, the shape of people’s beliefs and the ways folklore bisects and enriches everyday life is as striking and memorable as the volcanic landscape. Mythology reflects and refracts the dangers of the natural environment.

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