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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.

Decorating for Beltane the rooted way: the genuinely old May Bush and yellow flowers, hawthorn and rowan at the threshold, dated honestly…

Sidhe Wolf Editorial · 6 min read

A research-led sketchbook practice for folklore artists: copy real sources by hand, draw from primary art, and track provenance so the cliché…

Sidhe Wolf Editorial · 6 min read

Twelve writing prompts from Norse and continental folklore, each tied to a real source — the Eddas, the Grimms, the Lorelei, the…

Sidhe Wolf Editorial · 6 min read

How palette and motif carry meaning in folklore illustration — grounded in what the sources actually name, with a caution against inventing…

Sidhe Wolf Editorial · 6 min read

Richard Dadd, John Anster Fitzgerald and Joseph Noel Paton and the Victorian fairy-painting craze — a 19th-century movement, not a window on…

Sidhe Wolf Editorial · 5 min read

Drawing Cú Chulainn from the Táin's own words — the ríastrad, the Gáe Bolg and the three-coloured hair — not the familiar…

Sidhe Wolf Editorial · 6 min read

Jim Fitzpatrick's Book of Conquests and The Silver Arm gave Irish myth its modern face — a "Celtic" style that is a…

Sidhe Wolf Editorial · 6 min read

Queen of Connacht and driver of the Táin Bó Cúailnge — read by scholars as a sovereignty goddess, and the distant, contested…

Sidhe Wolf Editorial · 7 min read

The Fomorian king whose single destroying eye could unmake an army — and who dies exactly as prophesied, at the hand of…

Sidhe Wolf Editorial · 7 min read

Samhain, kept honestly: what the medieval Irish sources actually say, how Halloween braided in, what modern paganism added — and how to…

Sidhe Wolf Editorial · 8 min read