At present I am tangled in brambles and ivy, steeped in acorns and oak and painting the rhythm of the air as it moves through the feathers of a raven’s wing. I am working, as ever, on a new book, The Lost Words, written by Robert MacFarlane, illustrated by me, to be published by Hamish […]
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.
![Boadicea, leader of the rebellion against the Romans. By Joseph Martin Kronheim (1810–96)[1] - This file has been extracted from another file: Pictures of English History - Plates I to IV.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12705208](https://folklorethursday.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Pictures_of_English_History_Plate_IV_-_Boadicea_and_Her_Army.jpg)
Queen Boudica, ruler of the Iceni people of Britain, was famous for leading a violent uprising against Roman rule. Although she had early success, the rebellion ultimately failed, but made her into a legend and a folk heroine of the British people. Here we look briefly at how Boudica is presented in history, the causes of the rebellion, its successes and its ultimate failure and how she became perceived in later centuries.
Writers have long retold folk tales just as musicians have reinterpreted folk songs. But when writing Folk, I aimed not to tell old tales but to imbue the world of the novel with folklore, both real and imagined.
Austin Hackney’s wonderful telling of the fairy tale ‘Rumpelstiltskin’.
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