Celtic Legends
Nuada of the Silver Arm: The Blemished King of the Tuatha De Danann
Nuada of the silver arm, honestly sourced: the first king of the Tuatha De Danann, the blemished-king rule, and the…
Sidhe Wolf — old stories, kept properly
Celtic legend, spirit beings, art, seasonal practice and the mystic life — retold with pleasure and sourced with care. We tell you which story this is, where it was written down, when, and what got added later.
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Seelie and Unseelie Court: The Two Fairy Courts, Honestly Examined
The seelie and unseelie court split is genuine Lowland Scots folklore, but the tidy two-kingdoms picture is largely modern.
Celtic Legends
Rhiannon in Welsh Mythology: the Lady on the White Horse
Rhiannon in Welsh mythology: her role in the First and Third Branches of the Mabinogi, the uncatchable horse, and the…
Spirit Beings
The Wulver: Shetland’s Gentle Wolf-Man, Honestly Dated
The wulver is a benign wolf-headed man of Shetland lore - but the earliest record dates only to 1932, and…
Spirit Beings
Cat Sith: The Fairy Cat of the Highlands
The cat sith is a Highland fairy cat said to steal the soul of the unburied dead - the honest…
Celtic Legends
Cernunnos, the Horned God, Honestly Dated
The Cernunnos horned god is named just once in antiquity; the familiar "Horned God" is largely a modern build.
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Nuada of the Silver Arm: The Blemished King of the Tuatha De Danann
Nuada of the silver arm, honestly sourced: the first king of the Tuatha De Danann, the blemished-king rule, and the…
Myth & Folklore
Seelie and Unseelie Court: The Two Fairy Courts, Honestly Examined
The seelie and unseelie court split is genuine Lowland Scots folklore, but the tidy two-kingdoms picture is largely modern.
Celtic Legends
Rhiannon in Welsh Mythology: the Lady on the White Horse
Rhiannon in Welsh mythology: her role in the First and Third Branches of the Mabinogi, the uncatchable horse, and the…
Art & Creativity
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Art & Creativity
Keeping a folklore sketchbook: a practice
A research-led sketchbook practice for folklore artists: copy real sources by hand, draw from primary art, and track provenance so…
Art & Creativity
12 writing prompts from Norse and continental folklore
Twelve writing prompts from Norse and continental folklore, each tied to a real source — the Eddas, the Grimms, the…
Art & Creativity
Colour and symbol in folklore illustration
How palette and motif carry meaning in folklore illustration — grounded in what the sources actually name, with a caution…
Books & Reviews
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Books & Reviews
Tabletop RPGs and story games rooted in folklore
Tabletop RPGs genuinely rooted in folklore — Vaesen, Dolmenwood, Pendragon and Wanderhome — which engage a real tradition, and which…
Books & Reviews
Folklore scholarship for the serious reader
Real folklore scholarship you can actually read — Mac Cana, Hutton, Briggs, Simpson and Roud, Purkiss — and how to…
Books & Reviews
Folklore in poetry: from the medieval to the modern
Folklore as poetry, medieval to modern: Heaney's Sweeney Astray, Kinsella's Táin, Ní Dhomhnaill and Armitage — a faithful text versus…
Mystic Lifestyle
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Home & Décor
Small-maker gifting for folklore lovers
Gifting for a folklore lover the maker-first way: real craft over themed merchandise, right book editions, honest jewellery, and gifts…
Mystic Lifestyle
Amulets and talismans: folklore protection vs modern jewellery
Amulet versus talisman, and which folk-protection charms are genuinely old (iron, rowan, hag stones) versus the invented "ancient meanings" of…
Mystic Lifestyle
Autumn and winter layering: natural fibres and old dyes
Layering for autumn and winter the folkloric way: wool, linen and hemp as real cold-weather tech, and the madder, woad…
Spirituality & Magic
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Spirituality & Magic
A beginners guide to identifying and caring for crystals
Strictly mineralogy: identify stones by hardness, cleavage, habit and streak, spot common lookalikes and fakes, and clean and store each…
Spirituality & Magic
The tarot court cards as character and symbol
The sixteen court cards read as an iconographic system: Page, Knight, Queen and King across the four suits, and how…
Moon Rituals
Ogham, the medieval Irish alphabet — and the modern Celtic tree-calendar myth
Ogham is a real 4th-6th-century Irish script studied in genuine medieval treatises. The Celtic tree calendar and birth-tree horoscope are…