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Hengist invited Vortigern to a lavish feast. As wine flowed, Rowena curtseying to Vortigern, offered a cup of wine saying, “Lauerd king wacht heil!” he replied “Drinc heil!.” This is how toasting began in Britain
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November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Hengist invited Vortigern to a lavish feast. As wine flowed, Rowena curtseying to Vortigern, offered a cup of wine saying, “Lauerd king wacht heil!” he replied “Drinc heil!.” This is how toasting began in Britain
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Beowulf: The Slaying of Grendel and the Water Witch
Beowulf: The Slaying of Grendel and the Water Witch
J. R. Skelton [Public domain] Beowulf was originally written in Anglo-Saxon times as a poem in Old English by an anonymous writer. It tells the story of its heroic protagonist, Beowulf, who e…
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November 25, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Beowulf: The Slaying of Grendel and the Water Witch
#FolkloreSunday Many chilling tales tell of the evil dead but there are some that tell of the grateful dead. These are the dead who return from the afterlife to help a living person who helped them after had they died. Can the living help the dead, the dead help the living? Read on -
Breton Folktales: The Grateful Dead and the Man of Honour
Breton folktales often have magical and supernatural elements interwoven with death and tragedy in the story line which creates a dark, sombre but compelling story. Death is ever present in the wor…
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November 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
#FolkloreSunday Many chilling tales tell of the evil dead but there are some that tell of the grateful dead. These are the dead who return from the afterlife to help a living person who helped them after had they died. Can the living help the dead, the dead help the living? Read on -
Petrification Myths: The Witch Dancer of Lengmoos
Petrification Myths: The Witch Dancer of Lengmoos
How an arrogant young man offended God and was punished for his offense by being turned to stone.
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November 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Petrification Myths: The Witch Dancer of Lengmoos
The Murderous Plot of Albina and her Sisters and the Origin of Albion
The Murderous Plot of Albina and her Sisters and the Origin of Albion
This is the medieval legend of how the island of Britain was once known as Albion after an exiled queen and how a race of giants was born.
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November 23, 2025 at 10:29 AM
The Murderous Plot of Albina and her Sisters and the Origin of Albion
#FolkloreSunday Many chilling tales tell of the evil dead but there are some that tell of the grateful dead. These are the dead who return from the afterlife to help a living person who helped them after had they died. Can the living help the dead, the dead help the living? Read on -
Breton Folktales: The Grateful Dead and the Man of Honour
Breton folktales often have magical and supernatural elements interwoven with death and tragedy in the story line which creates a dark, sombre but compelling story. Death is ever present in the wor…
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November 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
#FolkloreSunday Many chilling tales tell of the evil dead but there are some that tell of the grateful dead. These are the dead who return from the afterlife to help a living person who helped them after had they died. Can the living help the dead, the dead help the living? Read on -
Bengal Folktales: The Origin of Rubies
Bengal Folktales: The Origin of Rubies
Bengal Folktales Bengal is a region of the Indian subcontinent giving its name to the Bay of Bengal and the following story is a retelling of a folktale from that region. The story retold here is …
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November 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Bengal Folktales: The Origin of Rubies
Queen Mebd: Wolf-Queen – Goddess of Sovereignty
Queen Mebd: Wolf-Queen – Goddess of Sovereignty
In Irish mythology Queen Mebd is a colorful character – an archetypal warrior-queen, indeed, a wolf-queen, who was so beautiful men were robbed of two thirds of their valor.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Queen Mebd: Wolf-Queen – Goddess of Sovereignty
Founding Myths: Princess Scota, Goídel Glas and their Links to the Gaelic People
Founding Myths: Princess Scota, Goídel Glas and their Links to the Gaelic People
In the mythology and pseudo-history of Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man, Princess Scota and her husband Goídel Glas and their followers were the progenitors of the Gaelic people.
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November 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Founding Myths: Princess Scota, Goídel Glas and their Links to the Gaelic People
Cat Tales: Puss in Boots and the Marquis of Carabas
Cat Tales: Puss in Boots and the Marquis of Carabas
Some people believe cats to be superior beings who carefully train their humans to provide for their needs. This is about one such cat.
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November 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Cat Tales: Puss in Boots and the Marquis of Carabas
'To suffer the fate of the rye, in autumn you will be scattered, sown, lay under earth through dark winter days. In spring you will burst through the earth, grow, ripen in sunshine and rain. When ready you will be harvested.' buff.ly/7Y6SLRE
The Grateful Dead: The Three Pennies, John Barleycorn and the Fate of the Rye
Stories of The Grateful Dead which tell of the gratitude of a dead person to someone alive who has helped them to a proper burial are found in many parts of the world. Under the Aarne–Thompson–Ut…
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November 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
'To suffer the fate of the rye, in autumn you will be scattered, sown, lay under earth through dark winter days. In spring you will burst through the earth, grow, ripen in sunshine and rain. When ready you will be harvested.' buff.ly/7Y6SLRE
Medieval Lore: The Curious Myth of the Origin Barnacle Geese
Medieval Lore: The Curious Myth of the Origin Barnacle Geese
Barnacle geese are a migratory species of water bird that have a very weird myth of origin attached to them that was once widely believed. During the medieval period there was a belief that barnacl…
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November 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Medieval Lore: The Curious Myth of the Origin Barnacle Geese
Beowulf’s Last Battle: The Great Flame Dragon
Beowulf’s Last Battle: The Great Flame Dragon
Beowulf is an anonymously written long poem originally written in Old English, the language commonly spoken in England in Anglo-Saxon times. It is named after its protagonist, Beowulf, a warrior fr…
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November 4, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Beowulf’s Last Battle: The Great Flame Dragon
Japanese Folktales: The Legend of the Haunted Furisodé
Japanese Folktales: The Legend of the Haunted Furisodé
Museum of Fine Arts, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons FURISODÉ In his book of Japanese ghost stories, folk tales, and legends, “In Ghostly Japan,” Lafcadio Hearn tell…
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November 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Japanese Folktales: The Legend of the Haunted Furisodé
Ghostlore: The White Lady of Blenkinsopp Castle Legend
Ghostlore: The White Lady of Blenkinsopp Castle Legend
White Lady Ghost – AI image – zteve t evans Ghostlore In ghostlore, the supernatural phenomenon known as the “White Lady” is a type of unquiet female spirit, or ghost, usual…
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November 2, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Ghostlore: The White Lady of Blenkinsopp Castle Legend
Bats in Myth, Legend and Folklore from Around the World
Bats in Myth, Legend and Folklore from Around the World
Bats feature in many myths, legends and folklore from diverse cultures around the world, and are often associated with darkness, death and the supernatural. Presented here are different viewpoints …
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October 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Bats in Myth, Legend and Folklore from Around the World
As from the dying sun strikes the watery surface revealing blood-stained pools and streams giving ia surreal and disturbing aspect. At such a time any traveler on that road would be vulnerable to their own thoughts as the veil lifts and the night creatures begin to roam through.
Scottish Folktales: The Haunted Heath
This is the story of how a poor pedlar-boy escaped the clutches of an evil family.
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October 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
As from the dying sun strikes the watery surface revealing blood-stained pools and streams giving ia surreal and disturbing aspect. At such a time any traveler on that road would be vulnerable to their own thoughts as the veil lifts and the night creatures begin to roam through.
Ghostlore: The Night Humphrey Dobson Had A Fright buff.ly/prCIS6P
Ghostlore: The Night Humphrey Dobson Had A Fright
Presented below is a retelling of a ghostly story that tells of the terrifying experience of Humphrey Dobson on his way home one night.
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October 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Ghostlore: The White Dobbie of Old Lancashire
Ghostlore: The White Dobbie of Old Lancashire
Hanuš Schwaiger [Public domain] This a retelling of a story called the The White Dobbie, set in part of the historic county of Lancashire which became part of the the modern county of Cumbria…
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October 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Ghostlore: The White Dobbie of Old Lancashire
Ghostlore: The Troubled Farmhouse of Longdendale
Ghostlore: The Troubled Farmhouse of Longdendale
William_Henry_Hunt_-_A_Farmhouse_-_B1975.3.1044_-_Yale_Center_for_British_Art.jpg (1920×1438) (wikimedia.org) The valley of Longdendale in the Peak District of England is one of those places where …
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October 18, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Ghostlore: The Troubled Farmhouse of Longdendale
In Philippine folklore, the Manananggal is a mythical, evil, cannibalistic, vampiric , witch that as well as sucking the blood from victims also eats them.
Philippine Folklore: Meet the Vampiric, Cannibalistic, Manananggal
Philippine Folklore In Philippine folklore, the Manananggal is a mythical, evil, cannibalistic, vampiric , witch that as well as sucking the blood from victims also eats them. Sometimes it is conf…
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October 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
In Philippine folklore, the Manananggal is a mythical, evil, cannibalistic, vampiric , witch that as well as sucking the blood from victims also eats them.