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Dazhbog Through the Snow
I didn’t really have the chance to write about any holiday-related mythology this month. I did notice that Talia Lavin wrote about some winter traditions in a post ostensibly about a sandwich. It’s interesting to note that for the Yakuts, … Continue reading →
Posted in Animals, Christmas, Holidays, Mythology, Names, Russian, Slavic | Tagged bulls, chyskhaan, dazbog, ded moroz, effigy, frost bull, jyl oghuha, khors, morana, perun, santa claus, seasons, sun, svarog, talia lavin, veles, winter, zorya, zorya utrennyaya, zorya vechernyaya |
Famous Monsters of Bookland
The Folded World, by Catherynne M. Valente – The sequel to The Habitation of the Blessed has John‘s daughter arrive in Pentexore to tell the inhabitants about the Crusades, and John’s subjects go off to fight in Jerusalem for a … Continue reading →
Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Catherynne M. Valente, Christianity, Crusades, Families, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, History, incryptid, Islam, Magic, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Poetry, Relationships, Religion, Rick Riordan, Russian, seanan mcguire, Television | Tagged a dance with dragons, a dirge for prester john, a drop of venom, a song of ice and fire, abuse, aftermarket afterlife, alexander the great, antimony price, arthur harrington, baba yaga, bran stark, cryptids, dragons, dreaming of you in freefall, finding baba yaga, george r.r. martin, ghosts, jane yolen, john de mandeville, koschei the deathless, mary dunlavy, medusa, moxy früvous, nagas, pentexore, perseus, prester john, rick riordan presents, sajni patel, saladin, sarah zellaby, the folded world, the habitation of the blessed, vasilisa the fair, verity price, witches |
Follow the Improbable Road
Thistlefoot, by GennaRose Nethercott – This is a retelling of the Baba Yaga legend specifically linking it to the pogroms against Russian Jews. In New Orleans in the present, the witch’s descendants, a shapeshifting street performer and a woodworker who can … Continue reading →
Posted in Alchemical Journeys, Alchemy, Authors, Book Reviews, Christianity, Comics, Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, History, Humor, Judaism, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Religion, Russian, seanan mcguire, Semitic, Technology, up-and-under, Video Games | Tagged a. deborah baker, airships, angels, baba yaga, bahamut, bible, bikke, dan frey, dawn of souls, demons, dr. unne, dreambound, dwarves, elves, esther j. hamori, flitz stewart, flying fortress, four fiends, gennarose nethercott, giants, god's monsters, green man, impossible city, improbable road, kaimeiji yuu, kraken, leviathan, lufenia, manga, marilith, matoya, nephilim, noah's ark, princess sara, puffy tolte, robots, satan, seraphim, thistlefoot, tiamat, under the smokestrewn sky, unicorns, witches |
Human Alchemy
The Hero’s Guide to Saving Your Kingdom, by Christopher Healy – This is an amusing take on well-known fairy tales focuses on what happens after the stories, and that it isn’t always just living happily ever after. The princes from Cinderella, … Continue reading →
Posted in Alchemy, Authors, Book Reviews, Fairy Tales, History, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Maps, Mathematics, Middle Ages, Monsters, Mythology, Nursery Rhymes, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Relationships, Religion, Russian, seanan mcguire, Theosophy | Tagged asphodel deborah baker, bards, christopher healy, cinderella, demons, doctrine of ethos, dwarves, fullmetal alchemist, giants, katherine arden, koschei the deathless, middlegame, morozko, over the garden wall, prince charming, pythagoras, rapunzel, sleeping beauty, snow white, the bear and the nightingale, the girl in the tower, the hero's guide to saving your kingdom, trolls, witches |
Daughter of Disease, Maker of Snakes
Picture by Tero Porthan In my ongoing search for topics from mythology and folklore, and specifically in terms of ogres and witches, I saw a mention of the Syojatar (properly spelled with marks above the letters, but that’s a hassle) … Continue reading →
Posted in Animals, Fairy Tales, Finnish, Health, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Norse, Russian | Tagged baba yaga, cinderella, diseases, dogs, harpies, john martin crawford, kalevala, lizards, louhi, loviatar, ogres, pigs, snakes, syojatar, tuoni, witches, wolves |
Iron Constitutions
I’ve been looking a bit into witches, and I latched onto one physical trait the Russian Baba Yaga is sometimes said to have, which is iron teeth. Such teeth seem to be associated with witches in general in Slavic lore. … Continue reading →
Posted in African, British, Christianity, Fairy Tales, Finnish, German, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, Russian, Slavic, Technology | Tagged alexander volkov, asanbosam, baba yaga, bronze, demons, dorothy gale, giants, ilmarinen, iron, iron woodman, ivashko, kalevala, magic land, ogres, perchta, prince ivan the witch baby and the little sister of the sun, psoglav, sasabonsam, the wonderful wizard of oz, tin woodman, vampires, wicked witch of the west, witches |
Yikes, Spikes!
I thought it might be worth looking at the Mario enemies known as Spikes, since they seem to be rather prominent nowadays. I’ve even seen them as stuffed animals at the Nintendo store in Manhattan, although I don’t have one … Continue reading →
Posted in Animals, Donkey Kong, Fairy Tales, Focus on the Foes, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Mythology, Norse, Russian, Toys, Video Games | Tagged clubbas, don bongo, donkey kong country, flails, gabon, giants, glitz pit, grubba, hammer brothers, klubbas, koschei the deathless, lakilester, lakitu, luigi mario, mace penguins, maces, magikoopas, mario mario, morning stars, new super mario bros., nintendo power, paper mario, paper mario: the thousand-year door, penguins, ptooies, snow spikes, spikes, stone spikes, super mario 3d world, super mario bros., super mario bros. 3, the blubbening, the giant who had no heart in his body, tubba blubba, turtles, weapons, yoshi's island, yoshi's story |
Dragons Is the Craziest Peoples
It seems like dragons becoming human or humans becoming dragons is a pretty common theme. I guess it makes sense for a person who turns into animals to become a dragon, as they’re big, powerful, and often intelligent as well. … Continue reading →
Posted in Animals, Authors, Breath of Fire, C.S. Lewis, Cartoons, Chronicles of Narnia, Dragon Quest, Fairy Tales, Greek Mythology, incryptid, Japanese, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Norse, Russian, seanan mcguire, Slavic, Ursula K. LeGuin, Video Games | Tagged aladdin, breath of fire 2, breath of fire 3, demons, dr. agon, dragnier, dragon clan, dragon quest v, dragon quest viii, dragonlord, dragons, dragovians, earthsea, eustace clarence scrubb, fafnir, fairies, father ganer bateson, halia, jafar, maleficent, myria, ophigenees, ophiogeneikos, ryu, ryu bateson, sleeping beauty, snakes, the voyage of the dawn treader, transformation, valerie bateson, zenith dragon, zmey, zmey gorynych, zmey tugarin |
A Koschei Deal
Her Majesty’s Wizard, by Christopher Stasheff – I saw this book on a list of recommendations somewhere, and I didn’t realize at the time that the author had just died in June. This is the first book of the Wizard … Continue reading →
Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Catholicism, Christianity, Diana Wynne Jones, Fairy Tales, History, Magic, Mythology, Nursery Rhymes, october daye, Religion, Russian, seanan mcguire, Slavic | Tagged a wizard in rhyme, an artificial night, baba yaga, blind michael, buyan, catherynne valente, christopher stasheff, daniel horne, deathless, deep secret, divine right, dragons, fairies, fletcher pratt, harold shea, her majesty's wizard, herne the hunter, koschei the deathless, l. sprague de camp, luidaeg, marya morevna, matthew mantrell, princess alisande, russian revolution, satan, sorcerers, werewolves, wild hunt, witches, wizards, world war ii |
Have Mercy on the Natural World
I still haven’t had much chance to listen to music as of late, what with moving and all, but here are my thoughts on two albums that came out this year: Decemberists, I’ll Be Your Girl – I listened to … Continue reading →
Posted in Albums, Music, Mythology, Neko Case, New Pornographers, Russian | Tagged a.c. newman, beth ditto, decemberists, eric bachmann, hell-on, i'll be your girl, k.d. lang, kathryn calder, Kelly Hogan, laura veirs, nora o'connor, rachel flotard |