Mythos

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.

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.

In this Korean Fairy tale a young woman who shows kindness to the simplest of creatures finds her friendship repaid tenfold.

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.

This lesser known fairy tale tells of a wandering tailor, an enchanted noble, a brother transformed into a stag and a very evil wizard.

The focus of Euripides' famous play, Medea was wife to the Greek hero Jason and both mother and murderer to his children.

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.

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

"There are koi in the pond, massive, serene, and I wonder: are they dreams of fish, or fish who dream?" ― S. Monette

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.

This strange Brothers Grimm tale features a mistreated princess, a kind king and most importantly, the skull of a talking horse.

"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.

Flowers are often born from tragedy, such was the case of the romance between Farhad and Shirin, whose doomed love birthed the first tulip.

“Once a Selkie finds its skin again, neither chains of steel nor chains of love can keep her from the sea.” ― John Lynch

A lesser known fairytale, the legend of Mollie Whuppie tells the story of a young girl who escapes, outsmarts and steals from a giant.

We recount a legend of the Polynesian hero, Maui and how he caught to sun to slow its hurried rush across the sky.

“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

We explore the legend of how Anansi won all the stories of the world from the sky-god Nyame.

"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

We summarise a classical Greek tragedy, originally collected in Ovid's Metamorphoses, telling a tale of murder, betrayal and revenge.

“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

“What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished." ― Peter S. Beagle

"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

"Kelpies eat people. They may not play with their food as creatively as the Each Uisge, but dead is dead.” ― E.J. Stevens

"They say monsters can be beautiful too, and if that is the case then truly there was none more monstrous than he."

"Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his." ― W. H. Auden

"Fashion a man equal to Gilgamesh An untamed man to tame the tyrant An untaught man to teach him secrets." ― Jenny Lewis

"You carry both lightning and thunder / in that space between your bones and soul. / Become the storm you are hiding from" ― Nikita Gill

"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

“The cunning fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.” – Thomas Paine

“…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

"Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together," - Plato

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

Dido was on fire with love and wandered all over the city in her misery and madness like a wounded doe.” ― Virgil

Let me warn you, Icarus, to take the middle way. Travel between the extremes." ― Ovid

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

“Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead" ― Thomas Malory

"With angry hands Demeter broke the ploughs that turned the soil and sent to death alike the farmer and his labouring ox." ― Ovid

“We must not look at goblin men, / We must not buy their fruits.” ― Christina Rossetti