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I’ve Never Kipled

Kipling: A Selection of His Stories and Poems, Volume 1, edited by John Beecroft – I picked this book up at a church book sale back in college, and had it sitting around on various shelves before starting to read … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Book Reviews, History, Humor, Mythology, Philosophy, Poetry | Tagged bagheera, baloo, bears, fairies, fauns, folk tales, how the camel got his hump, j.m. gleeson, john beecroft, just so stories, kaa, kim, kipling a selection of his stories and poems, mowgli, paul bransom, puck, puck of pook's hill, rhinoceroses, rudyard kipling, the elephant's child, the jungle book, wayland the smith, whales |

Babes in the Woods

I remember, back in high school, reading about Scandinavian tales of women living in the forest who looked beautiful and human from the front, but were hollow in the back. I think the book just called them elves, and they … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Authors, British, Fairy Tales, German, Greek Mythology, J.R.R. Tolkien, Language, Mythology, Names, Norse, Piers Anthony, Roman, Xanth | Tagged buschgrossmutter, druedain, dwarves, elves, enkidu, epic of gilgamesh, fauns, folklore, hulders, huldras, jacob grimm, kaiti hylands, lord of the rings, ludmila zeman, moss people, mother holle, orcs, satyrs, shrub grandmother, skogsra, tails, thale, trees, trolls, wild hunt, woodwives, woodwoses |

The More Real Than Real World Beyond the Real

Across the Green Grass Fields, by Seanan McGuire – Another book in the Wayward Children series, this one has a girl named Regan visit the Hooflands, a world of mythical hooved creatures, but before that deals with the treacherous nature … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Arthurian Legend, Authors, Book Reviews, British, Celtic, Comics, Dreams, Greek Mythology, Humor, Magic, Mythology, Relationships, seanan mcguire, Sexuality, Wayward Children | Tagged a cockeyed menagerie, across the green grass fields, andre breton, centaurs, fauns, holy grail, julien levy, kelpies, king arthur, marcel duchamp, max ernst, merlin, minotaur, nimue, once and future, paul eluard, perytons, rene magritte, salvador dali, sir lancelot du lac, surrealism, sword in the stars, t.s. sullivant, unicorns, walt kelly |

Pan Theism

I’ve been planning for a little while to write a post on the association of Satan with goats, and the god Pan plays pretty heavily into this. Before I get to that, though, I think Pan deserves his own post, … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Greek Mythology, Heroes of Olympus, Mythology, Percy Jackson, Rick Riordan | Tagged apollo, fauns, faunus, hermes, j.m. barrie, kenneth grahame, king midas, nymphs, pan, panes, peter pan, plutarch, satyrs, syrinx, the wind in the willows |

Pot Maze

Pan’s Labyrinth – Basically, the plot of this one is that, in fascist Spain, a widow marries a nasty captain who enjoys killing and torturing people, and brings her ten-year-old daughter Ofelia to his estate with her. She imagines that … 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 |