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 just borrow…
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Author: <span>Sidhe Wolf Editorial</span>
The Sidhe Wolf editorial desk. Folklore is sourced and attributed; named contributors are credited on their own pieces.
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 tell genuine…
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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 a living…
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Folklore for younger readers: children’s and YA done right
Children's and YA folklore that keeps the shadow and admits it is retelling — from Marie Heaney's illustrated Irish myth to Frances…
Books & Reviews
Scottish folklore and myth: books worth reading
The Scottish folklore shelf worth owning — from J. F. Campbell's tales to Henderson and Cowan's history — and why Carmina Gadelica…
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Welsh mythology beyond the Mabinogi: a reading guide
Past the Four Branches: an honest guide to reading Taliesin, the Welsh Triads and Culhwch and Olwen — which editions are for…
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 of skill…
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 modern jewellery.
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 and weld…
Home & Décor
Seasonal table settings through the turning year
Setting the table to the real year: a festival-by-festival guide from Imbolc to midwinter, built from seasonal material on constant handmade ceramics,…