Fancy a folkloric read? Check out #FolkloreThursday’s books!
Fancy a folkloric read? Check out FolkloreThursday’s books!
Opening the Time Traveller’s Herbal
Step into the time slip with herbal storyteller Amanda Edmiston, Botanica Fabula as we enter the world of The Time Traveller’s Herbal.
Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange by Adam Scovell, a Review
G. H. Finn reviews Adam Scovell’s excellent new book: Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange.
The Soul that Swam: Yet More Stories My Parents Tell Me
My parents tell me a few last family legends, and I contemplate on how these stories might change in the telling. “This happened to your lolo [my paternal grandfather] as a young man, before he got married,” Dad said. “It was when he was in Cagayan de Oro.” My grandfather was a priest with the […]
Telling Tales to Children
There are two main challenges to retelling folklore, myths and legends for children: making the story suitable and fun for the child audience (listeners or readers); and being as faithful and sensitive as possible to the original story.
Mixing Animals, Birds, Humans and Gods in Celtic Mythology
Animals played an important part in the everyday life of the ancients Celts. In Celtic mythology the lives of animals, birds, humans and gods are interwoven to provide rich stories alluding to important matters in their society such as life and death, love and hate, jealousy and lust. Provide here is a brief review of some of those myths and legends.