Anasyrma: President Trump & the Power of the Pussyhat

View of the Women's March on Washington from the roof of the Voice of America building © Voice of America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Women%27s_March#/media/File:Women%27s_March_2017-01_(12).jpg

nasyrma, or the lifting of one’s skirts to expose genitalia, has been used throughout history and mythology as a method to ward off evil and shame men for their actions. Arguably, the viral Pussyhat™ from the 2017 Women’s March that was worn by thousands of women around the globe can be seen a resurfacing of […]

Albion’s Glorious Ile: William Hole and the Strangest Maps of Britain Ever Made

Map of Cambridgeshire from Poly-Olbion, Part Two, 1622. ©Flash of Splendour Arts

In the early 17th century, the celebrated London engraver William Hole created some of the strangest maps of Britain ever commissioned to illustrate Poly-Olbion, a vast 15,000-line topographical poem by Michael Dayton (1563-1631).

The Folklore of Exorcism

The influences of folklore in the beliefs and rituals of exorcism are traced by Dr. Francis Young, who explores these effects in a practice common to many cultures and countries.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – a Bewitching Masterpiece of Mediaeval Poetry

The Green Knight in the Woods, from an original linocut print by Michael Smith ( © Michael Smith 2019, all rights reserved )

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, is a fourteenth century poetic masterpiece. No mere Arthurian romance, it is a work of huge religious, spiritual and mystical power. In subjecting its hero to the hardest of temptations, it reveals the hollowness of the chivalric ideal, the weakness of men and the loneliness of the human condition.

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