Clown Panics and Computers: Chaos Manifests in the Age of the Internet

Scary clown. By Graeme Maclean - originally posted to Flickr as bad clown, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4083868

This article is about clowns. If you have clourophobia you might want to look away now. Not many forms of entertainment have their own phobia, yet there seems to be something about clowns that gets deep into our psyche.

Snow-White & Rose-Red & Other Tales of Kind Young Women

Leaves hanging on a door that resemble a face. From ‘Snow-White & Rose-Red & Other Tales of Kind Young Women’. Retold by Kate Forsyth. Illustrated by Lorena Carrington.

‘Snow-White & Rose Red’ is a literary tale, adapted by Wilhelm Grimm from a short story ‘The Ungrateful Dwarf’, written by the German children’s writer Karoline Stahl.
Snow-White and Rose-Red are sisters living with their mother, a poor widow, in a cottage by the woods. Red and white roses grow together by the door. One winter night, a bear knocks on the door. He is half-frozen and they let him warm himself by their fire. The girls play with the bear, and he comes back every night for the rest of that winter. When summer comes, the bear tells them that he must go away for he needs to guard his treasure from a wicked goblin. Later the girls rescue the goblin whose beard is stuck in a tree, but he is ungrateful and yells at them for cutting off his beard. The girls encounter him again and again, helping him each time, but he continues rude and ungrateful. Eventually the bear kills the dwarf, and reveals himself as an enchanted prince.

The Six Creepiest Creatures from Scottish Folklore

Kelpie statue by Jamie McInall https://www.pexels.com/photo/grayscale-photography-of-horse-head-and-clouds-906793/

Scottish lore contains some of the darkest and strangest figures in folkloric history: shape-shifters, blood-suckers, monsters without skin.

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