dryads – VoVatia (original) (raw)

Listen to the Banshee

I’m not sure I’ve ever done a post about Banshees, of Inisherin or otherwise. I haven’t seen that movie, but I suspect it doesn’t have any literal Banshees in it. I did write before about the Bean-Nighe, which is sometimes considered a type of … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Cartoons, Celtic, Characters, Discworld, Etymology, Magic, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Oz, Television, Terry Pratchett | Tagged aiobheall, banshees, bean-nighe, birds, blarney castle, blarney stone, brigid, carrigcleena, cats, ciabhan, cliodhna, cormac maccarthy, crows, dragons, dryads, dwarves, fairies, forest of burzee, funerary rites, gargoyles, gebann the red druid, ghosts, gnomes, going postal, gryle, guards! guards!, hares, keening, leprechauns, leprechauns in oz, manannan mac lir, mark haas, morrigan, moving pictures, mr. ixolite, o'caoimh, ruadan, sean mac seamas, sirens, stoats, the colour of magic, tiny toon adventures, tonn cliodhna, tuatha de danann, weasels |

The Anti-Chaos Committee

I’ve finished several books recently, but I was holding off on writing about them not just because I had other stuff to do, but because it seems like I don’t do much else besides book reviews these days. Oziana isn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in A. Lee Martinez, Authors, Book Reviews, Christianity, Fairy Tales, German, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, History, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, marissa meyer, Monsters, Mythology, Norse, october daye, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Politics, Prejudice, Relationships, Religion, seanan mcguire | Tagged abolitionism, angela davis, constance verity, constance verity destroys the universe, cotton mather, demons, dryads, elves, erlking, fairies, gilded, ibram x. kendi, jefferson davis, king kong, kiranmala and the kingdom beyond, luanne g. smith, martin luther king, pixies, planet of the apes, president thomas jefferson, racism, rakkhosh, rumplestiltskin, sayantani dasgupta, slavery, stamped from the beginning, thakurmar jhuli, the brightest fell, the chaos curse, the princess bride, the raven spell, uplift suasion, vivienne to, w.e.b. dubois, wild hunt, william lloyd garrison, winged monkeys, witches |

Mythology Today

A Local Habitation, by Seanan McGuire – The second of the October Daye novels has Toby, at the behest of her lord Duke Sylvester, investigating a fairy-run computer company in Fremont, which in Faerie is a buffer zone between two … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Fairy Tales, Hinduism, Mythology, Religion, Rick Riordan, seanan mcguire | Tagged a local habitation, aru shah and the end of time, chitrigupta, demons, dharma raja, dryads, fairies, hanuman, indra, lady of the lake, luidaeg, mahabarata, nymphs, october daye, pandava quartet, roshani chokshi, shakuni, suyodhana, urvashi, witches |

The Tree Fairies

One particular variety of Irish fairies are the Lesidhe, guardians of the forest. As such, I suppose they’re sort of like the Dryads of Greek mythology, but much more dangerous. One of their favorite tricks is to imitate mockingbirds to … Continue reading →

The Christians and the Pagans Sat Together at the Stone Table

One thing you’ll almost certainly notice in the Chronicles of Narnia is that, for a Christian series, there are a lot of beings from pagan mythology hanging out there. In addition to all the nymphs and fauns, there are wood-gods … Continue reading →

Posted in C.S. Lewis, Christianity, Chronicles of Narnia, Fairy Tales, Greek Mythology, Mythology, Religion | Tagged aslan, bacchus, centaurs, dionysus, dryads, fairies, father christmas, fauns, jesus, john goldthwaite, naiads, nymphs, paganism, river-gods, silenus, the natural history of make-believe, wood-gods |