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 type without…
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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.
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 Pamela Colman…
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 Robert Graves…
Moon Rituals
Beltane and Lughnasadh as observance: attested custom and modern additions
The two summer fire-festivals, layered honestly: an early-attested Beltane fire custom and the old Lughnasadh harvest assembly, with the modern additions flagged.
Myth & Folklore
The Dullahan: the headless rider of Irish folklore
The headless death-herald of Irish folklore, with his glowing head and silent death-coach. A great monster, honestly young: 19th-c. collection, not medieval…
Books & Reviews
Indie games that draw on folklore — and get it right (or don’t)
From Inupiat storytelling in Never Alone to Swedish year-walking in Year Walk: indie games that treat folklore as a source to honour,…
Books & Reviews
Folk-horror and folklore fiction worth your shelf
Six novels that use British and Irish folklore with real care, from a Mabinogi retelling to selkie fiction, with an honest note…
Books & Reviews
Reading the four cycles of Irish myth: a path through the primary sources
The Mythological, Ulster, Fenian and Kings cycles, explained: which translations actually read well, and the order to tackle the primary sources without…
Books & Reviews
The best Irish mythology non-fiction: where to actually start
New to Irish myth and drowning in lookalike 'Celtic' titles? A frank, in-print starting shelf, from Marie Heaney's retellings to Mark Williams's…
Myth & Folklore
The Cailleach: the divine hag of Gaelic tradition
The divine hag of Scottish Gaelic and Irish tradition: maker of mountains, queen of winter. Honest about a thin medieval record and…