Mythos

Inspired by the Child's Ballad, Willie's Lady, Will and his wife, Nell find themselves unable to conceive under a witch's curse.

Vic was going to do it this time. He had first seen the selkies months ago and now he could almost feel warm fur beneath his fingers.

“Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail." - J. Campbell

"What ― Old Tom dead! then I'm the King o' the Cats!"

A popular Scottish ballad, the legend of Tam Lin tells the story of Janet who must win her Love from the cunning fairy queen.

“A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear from the injury of the oyster. " ― Stephan Hoeller

"And yet, it was still a performance. Odin and I both knew it. It was a kind of play, a dream of how things might have been." — J. Harris

“The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin

"Why shirts made of graveyard nettles by bleeding fingers and silence should disenchant men..." ― R. Stonlit

"For fifty years she rocked that babe / It's said she rocks him still / A mother of a changeling child from 'neath the fairy hill" ― H. Dale

“…but the moon was shining and to conceal her deed, she took a pail of pitch and began to tar the moon black.” – Emilie Demant Hatt

"At once the secret was revealed. "There lay the gentlest and sweetest of all creatures, Cupid himself." – Lucius Apuleius

"How can one have the heart to go back on the bridge made of magpies?" ― Qin Guan