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Devouring the Devoted

There’s a mention in the Canterbury Tales, specifically in the enovy after the Clerk’s Tale, of something called the Chichevache, which according to the glossary is a monster that only eats patient and faithful wives, like Griselda in the story. … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Greek Mythology, Humor, Monsters, Mythology, Poetry, Prejudice, Relationships, Roman | Tagged apollo, bicorn, bigorne, chicheface, chichefache, chichevache, cupid, cupid and psyche, geoffrey chaucer, john lydgate, martianus capella, mercury, on the marriage of philology and mercury, philology, scherminkel, tarasque, the canterbury tales, unicorns |

Get Off Your Ass

This might well be my last book review post of the year. I got an overview of the books I read in 2021 on Goodreads a few weeks ago, but I have no idea why they didn’t save it until … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Animals, Authors, Babylonian, Book Reviews, Celtic, Characters, Conspiracy Theories, Egyptian, Hinduism, Korean, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Mayan, Monsters, Mythology, Native American, Navajo, october daye, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Relationships, Religion, Rick Riordan, Roman, seanan mcguire, Semitic, Voodoo, William Shakespeare | Tagged a midsummer night's dream, aliens, anunnaki, apsaras, apuleius, aru shah, beware the grove of true love, bruto and the freaky flower, calamity juice, carlo collodi, carlos hernandez, chupacabra, cupid and psyche, dalgyal gwisin, demons, don quixote, donkeys, dushyanti, ellen d. finkelpearl, erzulie, fairies, fionn mac cumhaill, ghosts, gilgamesh, graci kim, gum baby, isis, j.c. cervantes, kwame mbalia, miguel de cervantes, my life as a child outlaw, my night at the gifted carnival, nymphs, pandavas, paola santiago, paola santiago and the forest of nightmares, peter singer, pinocchio, rebecca roanhorse, rick riordan presents, roshani chokshi, sal and gabi, sarwat chadda, shaggy man, shakuntala, sikander aziz, tehlor kay mejia, the adventures of pinocchio, the cave of doom, the cursed carnival and other calamities, the demon drum, the golden ass, the gum baby files, the initiation, the last fallen star, the loneliest demon, the road to oz, the winter long, tristan strong, urvashi, witches, yoon ha lee, zane obispo |

Nobody Ever Suspects the Butterfly

Picture by Carsten Witte In this post about a Chinese drama, there’s a mention of butterfly demons, and some possibilities as to how this links to mythology. Butterflies are apparently considered manifestations of the soul in Greek, Chinese, and Japanese culture. … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Aztec, Chinese, Dragon Quest, Greek Mythology, Japanese, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Native American, Roman, Urban Legends, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged aoyama, batterflies, betterflies, butterflies, caterpillars, cupid and psyche, demons, dread admirals, ghosts, godzilla, insects, itzpapalotl, mothman, mothra, moths, mothula, okiku, okiku mushi, psyche, shinchu, souls, yokai |

Doubters of the Divine

Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World, by Tim Whitmarsh – This book is partially a response to the idea that atheism is a new idea, a product of the age of science and reason that turns against ancient … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Christianity, Fairy Tales, Feminism, Greek Mythology, Greek Philosophy, Hellenistic Greece, History, Humor, Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Robert Rankin, Roman Empire | Tagged anaximander, anaximenes, atheism, battling the gods, beauty and the beast, bluebeard, count otto black, cupid and psyche, epicurus, euhemerus, from the beast to the blonde, hugo rune, jim pooley, king arthur, king solomon, marina warner, merlin, monotheism, polytheism, queen of sheba, retromancer, salmoneus, sibyls, socrates, theomakhia, tim whitmarsh, xenophanes of colophon, zeus |

Go West of the Moon, Young Woman

As far as evocative names for stories go, you can’t get much more intriguing than “East of the Sun and West of the Moon,” a Norwegian fairy tale. The phrase doesn’t make a whole lot of logical sense. I suppose … Continue reading →