We’re Going Monster Spotting… You Want to Come?!

Silver Fern Holidays https://www.silverfernholidays.com/blog/monster-hunting-round-the-world/

Would you call yourself a thrill-seeker? Are you always looking for that next adrenaline rush? Putting yourself in danger so you can feel more alive? Well, how about undertaking a bit of monster-spotting? That’s right, why don’t you add a big dollop of thrills to your next trip by trying to find one of these legendary monsters…  Here’s a guide to everything you’ll need to find these legendary creatures…

Built with the Bones of the Dead: The Hidden Church of San Bernardino, Milan, Italy

Basilica di Santo Stefano © Francesco Zocchi 2016.

The most interesting parts of Milan are hidden in plain sight. This city, once an ancient Celtic settlement conquered by Romans and now considered the fashion capital of Europe, isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when planning for your holidays in Italy. Flashier and more popular choices like Venice, Florence or Rome are the usual tourist […]

King Herla and the Wild Hunt in Twelfth-Century England and Wales

Peter Nicolai Arbo, ‘Asgårdsreien’ (1872)

The ghostly “Wild Hunt” rampaged across European folklore as a company of supernatural huntsmen that often counted fairies and the dead among their number.

The Green Children of Woolpit: A Medieval Encounter with Aliens, the Fae – or Orphans of War?

In Fairy Land, a series of pictures from the elf-world, 1870. By Richard Doyle - http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00025040/00001/39j, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=51221533

In the middle years of the 12th century, two green-skinned children mysteriously appeared in a field in Suffolk. But who or what were they and where did they come from? Theories range from aliens and the Fae to orphans of war and naughty children.

Will the Real Father Christmas Please Stand Up?

Saturnalia by Antoine Callet. CC0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32008455

From midwinter feasting at Neolithic British sites like Durrington Walls, to the Haloa of Ancient Greece and the Norse Yule celebration, humans have always needed a reminder during the depths of winter of light, community and the promise of good things to come.

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