Beauty and the Beast: From French Folklore to Victorian Romance

Beauty stands over the body of the Beast, who is now a young man.

A tale with a handsome prince cursed to live as a monstrous beast and a courageous beauty who consents to be his prisoner in order to save her father.

Cars, Coins and Cursed Colours: A Brief Introduction to the Folklore of Vehicles

Photograph of green motorbike by Steve Toase

Cars and motorbikes have been with us for over 130 years. In that time they’ve gathered superstitions and urban legends around them like exhaust fumes.

Matlock Hare and the Three Hares Symbol

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Three – some say, is the lucky number. Others find it equally as unlucky, citing dark suspicions about Shakespeare’s ‘weird-systers’ in the equally infamous ‘Scottish Play’. Love it, loathe it, dismiss it, debunk it, or even worship it, there’s no doubting that somehow this single digit has provoked both mysterious interpretation and serious academic study and numerological […]

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