Headless Horsemen and Ghostly Lights: The Top 5 Texas Urban Legends

Ranch with Texas Lone Star painted on the site

Nowhere else on the planet in the last three hundred years has there been a pioneer narrative quite like the legends and myths of the American Frontier.

British Apple Lore

Painting of King Arthur lying down dying with women attending him.

Apples were for centuries the fruit that most people would have had most often. From acerbic and sharp cooking apples to rosy red ones that crunch and release floods juice there was an apple for every palate.

The Lessons of Monsters: As Learned from Cultural Demons Krampus and Namahage

Bertram and Krampus

Chris Kullstroem delves into the world of monsters, their cultural festivals and scare tourism…

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.

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