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In Summary: The Devil and the Three Golden Hairs
Join us this month as we tell the story of a young man destined to marry a princess and the wicked king determined to prevent it.
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Feb 84 min read
In Summary: The Race to the End
The Year of the Dragon is fast approaching! We take a quick look at the race between animals to gain their position in the Chinese Zodiac.
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Sep 28, 20232 min read
In Summary: The Faithful Toad
In this Korean Fairy tale a young woman who shows kindness to the simplest of creatures finds her friendship repaid tenfold.
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Jun 29, 202310 min read
Two Lines
Inspired by the Child's Ballad, Willie's Lady, Will and his wife, Nell find themselves unable to conceive under a witch's curse.
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Apr 13, 20237 min read
Thief
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.
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Feb 16, 20236 min read
In Summary: The Glass Coffin
This lesser known fairy tale tells of a wandering tailor, an enchanted noble, a brother transformed into a stag and a very evil wizard.
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Jan 26, 20235 min read
In Summary: Medea
The focus of Euripides' famous play, Medea was wife to the Greek hero Jason and both mother and murderer to his children.
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Dec 1, 20223 min read
The Snow Child
In this wintery fairytale a childless couple made themselves a child out of snow - only to be shocked when their snow-child came to life.
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Nov 10, 20222 min read
Ouroboros
“Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail." - J. Campbell
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Oct 20, 20221 min read
There’s a Dragon in my Goldfish Bowl
"There are koi in the pond, massive, serene, and I wonder: are they dreams of fish, or fish who dream?" ― S. Monette
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Sep 29, 20223 min read
In Summary: The Wedding of Thor
When his beloved hammer, Mjolnir is stolen Thor, god of thunder has no choice but to disguise himself as a bride to steal it back.
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Sep 1, 20224 min read
In Summary: The Goose Girl
This strange Brothers Grimm tale features a mistreated princess, a kind king and most importantly, the skull of a talking horse.
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Aug 11, 20225 min read
The King of Cats
"What ― Old Tom dead! then I'm the King o' the Cats!"
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Jul 14, 20223 min read
In Summary: The Ballad of Tam Lin
A popular Scottish ballad, the legend of Tam Lin tells the story of Janet who must win her Love from the cunning fairy queen.
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Jun 16, 20222 min read
In Summary: The First Tulips
Flowers are often born from tragedy, such was the case of the romance between Farhad and Shirin, whose doomed love birthed the first tulip.
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May 12, 20222 min read
The Seal-Bride
“Once a Selkie finds its skin again, neither chains of steel nor chains of love can keep her from the sea.”
― John Lynch
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Apr 28, 20225 min read
In Summary: Molly Whuppie and the Giant
A lesser known fairytale, the legend of Mollie Whuppie tells the story of a young girl who escapes, outsmarts and steals from a giant.
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Apr 7, 20223 min read
In Summary: How Maui Caught the Sun
We recount a legend of the Polynesian hero, Maui and how he caught to sun to slow its hurried rush across the sky.
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Mar 17, 20224 min read
Tamatori-Hime
“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
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Feb 24, 20223 min read
In Summary: How Anansi won the World’s Stories
We explore the legend of how Anansi won all the stories of the world from the sky-god Nyame.
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Feb 3, 20224 min read
Blood Brother
"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
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Jan 14, 20224 min read
In Summary: The Swallow, the Hoopoe and the Nightingale
We summarise a classical Greek tragedy, originally collected in Ovid's Metamorphoses, telling a tale of murder, betrayal and revenge.
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Dec 9, 20217 min read
White Scales and Red Roses
“The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin
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Nov 19, 20215 min read
The Six Swans
"Why shirts made of graveyard nettles by bleeding fingers and silence should disenchant men..." ― R. Stonlit
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Oct 22, 20211 min read
The Unicorn Woods
“What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished." ― Peter S. Beagle
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Oct 1, 20219 min read
The Fairy Nurse
"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
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Sep 9, 20212 min read
Each-Uisge
"Kelpies eat people. They may not play with their food as creatively as the Each Uisge, but dead is dead.” ― E.J. Stevens
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Aug 20, 20214 min read
The Trials of Psyche
"They say monsters can be beautiful too, and if that is the case then truly there was none more monstrous than he."
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Jul 30, 20212 min read
Narcissus
"Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his." ― W. H. Auden
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Jul 9, 20211 min read
Gilgamesh and Enkidu
"Fashion a man equal to Gilgamesh
An untamed man to tame the tyrant
An untaught man to teach him secrets." ― Jenny Lewis
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Jun 17, 20213 min read
Sedna and the Storm
"You carry both lightning and thunder /
in that space between your bones and soul. / Become the storm you are hiding from" ― Nikita Gill
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May 28, 20211 min read
The Mermaid
"Sirens lurk in the dark depths of the pupils as they lurk at the bottom of the sea, that I know for sure" – Jean Lorrain
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May 7, 20212 min read
Tamamo-No-Mae
“The cunning fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.” – Thomas Paine
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Apr 16, 20213 min read
The Beetle on the Moon
“…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
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Mar 26, 20212 min read
The Children of The Earth
"Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together," - Plato
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Feb 26, 20218 min read
Cupid and Psyche
"At once the secret was revealed. "There lay the gentlest and sweetest of all creatures, Cupid himself." – Lucius Apuleius
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Feb 8, 20211 min read
The Fall of Carthage
Dido was on fire with love and wandered all over the city in her misery and madness like a wounded doe.” ― Virgil
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Feb 8, 20213 min read
Between the Extremes
Let me warn you, Icarus, to take the middle way. Travel between the extremes." ― Ovid
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Feb 4, 20213 min read
The Magpie Bridge
"How can one have the heart to go back on the bridge made of magpies?" ― Qin Guan
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Nov 10, 20203 min read
Le Sommeil d’Arthur
“Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead" ― Thomas Malory
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Apr 14, 20202 min read
Mother Mourning
"With angry hands Demeter broke the ploughs that turned the soil and sent to death alike the farmer and his labouring ox." ― Ovid
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Sep 15, 20181 min read
Through fairy fields
“We must not look at goblin men, / We must not buy their fruits.” ― Christina Rossetti
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