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Bad luck from breaking a mirror has a long history, and the ominous associations are pervasive around the world.
My parents tell me more family stories, this time about haunted houses. But what haunts a house? Ghosts, or fairies?
This is the story of the legendary Aurelius Ambrosius, a King of the Britons in the 5th century AD.
In the nineteenth century, Lady Charlotte Guest (with a team of Welsh scholars) translated a series of stories from Welsh
The Norwegian hulder-folk pursue Christian-folk - kidnapping their children, making them their partners and servants, and getting their help to
Dragons play a popular role in legend, Where might their origins have begun, and can we see parallels between them
By their very nature saints are exceptional beings and none more so than the select few female saints. These were
How is a gingerbread house tempting if you've gone gluten-free? Who needs pumpkin coaches when there's Uber? It's a question
When one hears the word “zombie” various images come to mind: usually that of flesh-eating, brain-devouring monsters; that is just
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My new book is intended to inspire all the little girls who admire women like Michelle Obama, Lucy Bronze, Malala
