erlking – VoVatia (original) (raw)

Changing in the Telling

The Unkindest Tide, by Seanan McGuire – This book deals with the Roane, the aquatic children of the Luidaeg who had been mostly killed off centuries earlier, their skins then being used to create Selkies. The sea-witch vows to revive … Continue reading →

Posted in Anglicanism, Animals, Authors, Book Reviews, British, Catholicism, Christianity, Fairy Tales, German, History, Islam, Magic, marissa meyer, Middle Ages, Mythology, Norse, Nursery Rhymes, october daye, Relationships, Religion, seanan mcguire, Urban Legends, Welsh | Tagged apocrypals, archbishop whateley, cait sith, cats, ceil baring-gould, curious myths of the middle ages, cursed, dogs, erlking, fairies, garden of eden, gellert, gilded, jesus, luidaeg, merrows, napoleon bonaparte, paradise, perchta, pope joan, prester john, prince llewellyn, roane, rumplestiltskin, sabine baring-gould, selkies, seven sleepers of ephesus, sherlock holmes, the annotated mother goose, the unkindest tide, titania, wandering jew, william stuart baring-gould, william tell |

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 |