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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.

Nuada of the silver arm, honestly sourced: the first king of the Tuatha De Danann, the blemished-king rule, and the two Battles…

Sidhe Wolf Editorial · 8 min read

The seelie and unseelie court split is genuine Lowland Scots folklore, but the tidy two-kingdoms picture is largely modern.

Sidhe Wolf Editorial · 8 min read

Rhiannon in Welsh mythology: her role in the First and Third Branches of the Mabinogi, the uncatchable horse, and the false murder…

Sidhe Wolf Editorial · 9 min read

The wulver is a benign wolf-headed man of Shetland lore - but the earliest record dates only to 1932, and its history…

Sidhe Wolf Editorial · 8 min read

The cat sith is a Highland fairy cat said to steal the soul of the unburied dead - the honest folklore, dated…

Sidhe Wolf Editorial · 9 min read

The Cernunnos horned god is named just once in antiquity; the familiar "Horned God" is largely a modern build.

Sidhe Wolf Editorial · 9 min read

Leprechaun folklore honestly traced: from the 8th-century luchorpan to the American pot-of-gold mascot, with each layer dated.

Sidhe Wolf Editorial · 9 min read

Tabletop RPGs genuinely rooted in folklore — Vaesen, Dolmenwood, Pendragon and Wanderhome — which engage a real tradition, and which just borrow…

Sidhe Wolf Editorial · 6 min read

Real folklore scholarship you can actually read — Mac Cana, Hutton, Briggs, Simpson and Roud, Purkiss — and how to tell genuine…

Sidhe Wolf Editorial · 6 min read

Folklore as poetry, medieval to modern: Heaney's Sweeney Astray, Kinsella's Táin, Ní Dhomhnaill and Armitage — a faithful text versus a living…

Sidhe Wolf Editorial · 6 min read