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Chicks Dig Scarlings

The Prince of Ill Luck, by Susan Dexter – I forget who mentioned this book to me some years ago, but it’s been on my to-read list for a while. Leith, Prince of the Isles, is thought to be under … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Book Reviews, Catherynne M. Valente, Celtic, Chinese, Fairy Tales, Families, Greek Mythology, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Vietnamese | Tagged a wizard's guide to defensive baking, arabian nights, arimaspoi, crows, cynocephali, firebird, four immortals, girl giant and the monkey king, horses, illuminations, in the night garden, jade emperor, leucrota, monopods, scarling, selkies, sun wukong, susan dexter, t. kingfisher, thanh giong, the orphan's tales, the prince of ill luck, ursula vernon, van hoang, warhorse of esdragon |

Snarks and Grumkins

The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear, by Walter Moers, translated by John Brownjohn – I’d only just recently heard of this German author, but this book really grabbed me. It’s a funny and absurd fantasy, narrated by a bear who … Continue reading →

Posted in Arabian, Art, Authors, Book Reviews, British, C.S. Lewis, Celtic, Christianity, Chronicles of Narnia, England, Fairy Tales, German, History, Humor, John R. Neill, Judaism, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Poetry, Religion, Scottish, Semitic | Tagged a game of thrones, a song of ice and fire, adam and eve, andrew lang, atlantes, atlantis, bible, brothers grimm, daenerys targaryen, dragonrouge, dragons, edmund spenser, faerie queene, fairies, felixmarte of hyrcania, george macdonald, george r.r. martin, jinn, john brownjohn, kesrick, korrigan, lin carter, mazikeen, oberon, orlando furioso, peris, portunes, seals, selkies, talmud, terra magica, the 13 1/2 lives of captain bluebear, the light princess, the mythology of fairies, the scalawagons of oz, the world guide to gnomes fairies elves and other little people, thomas keightley, trolls, unicorns, walter moers, westeros, zamonia |

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 |

That Vodou That Yo Dou So Well

The Hollow Places, by T. Kingfisher – When a woman named Kara is going through a divorce, she moves in with her uncle, a conspiracy-minded man who doesn’t believe in evolution until he figures he needs to in order to … Continue reading →

Posted in Arthurian Legend, Authors, Book Reviews, British, Dreams, Language, Magic, Mythology, Names, october daye, Poetry, Prejudice, Relationships, Religion, seanan mcguire, Voodoo | Tagged a song below water, algernon blackwood, ambrosius aurelianus, bethany c. morrow, bigfoot, changelings, fairies, falconry, gargoyles, geoffrey of monmouth, hobby, horror, jane yolen, king arthur, lady of the lake, luidaeg, merlin, myrddin, night and silence, oberon, passager, racism, selkies, sirens, suffer a sea-change, t. kingfisher, tam lin, the hollow places, the quarter storm, the willows, the young merlin trilogy, veronica g. henry, vita merlini, vivien, wizards |

In the Witching Hour

Pixies, Beneath the Eyrie – The band’s newest release was recorded at a recording studio in Ulster County, New York, that used to be a church. It had a Gothic feel that inspired the general vibe of the album, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Albums, Frank Black/Black Francis, Magic, Music, Pixies, Robyn Hitchcock, XTC | Tagged andy partridge, beneath the eyrie, dukes of stratosphear, kim deal, paz lenchantin, planet england, robyn hitchcock, selkies, surrealism, witches |

A Jaded Monarch

The Jade Emperor is a significant character in Journey to the West, in which Sun Wukong challenges his rule over the universe for no real reason other than because he wanted recognition. He’s more or less the head of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Chinese, L. Frank Baum, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, Taoism | Tagged altair, bureaucracy, jade emperor, journey to the west, niu lang, qixi festival, selkies, sun wukong, tik-tok of oz, tititi-hoochoo, vega, zhinu |

Lend Me Your Coat

The selkies of Irish and Scottish folklore, as mentioned in songs by Frank Black and Tori Amos, are part of a larger tradition of shape-shifting animals marrying humans. The selkies are seal-people who live in the water but occasionally shed … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, British, Celtic, Fairy Tales, Frank Black/Black Francis, Japanese, Music, Mythology, Tori Amos | Tagged cranes, decemberists, seals, selkies, swan maidens, swans, the crane wife |

All the Girls Are Complicated

It’s been a long time since I’ve listened to any new music. I just got my late anniversary present from my wife, however, and it included three albums that came out this year. All by artists I already knew, mind … Continue reading →

Posted in Albums, Art, British, Celtic, Frank Black/Black Francis, Music, Mythology, Tori Amos | Tagged daniel maclise, dante gabriel rossetti, david byrne, laura cantrell, no way there from here, paul cezanne, saturday night live, selkies, st. vincent, susan sto helit, unrepentant geraldines |