st. patrick – VoVatia (original) (raw)

Tell Me About the Dragons, George

I had a few other things I wanted to write about, but since I found out Saturday was St. George’s Day, I thought he might be worth looking into. As someone who didn’t attend a church where saints were really … Continue reading →

Posted in Anglicanism, Authors, Catholicism, Christianity, Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Crusades, Diana Wynne Jones, Eastern Orthodox, England, Greek Mythology, History, Holidays, Humor, Islam, J.R.R. Tolkien, L. Frank Baum, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, Roman, Roman Empire, Stan Freberg, Tom Holt | Tagged dragons, edith nesbit, emperor diocletian, gordon r. dickson, hercules, kenneth grahame, king edward iii of england, medusa, order of the garter, ovid, paint your dragon, perseus, prince marvel, smaug, st. dragon and the george, st. george, st. george's day, st. patrick, st. theodore tiron, the deliverers of their country, the enchanted island of yew, the hobbit, the reluctant dragon, unicorns, witch week |

No Beef with Aengus

Aengus Og, or Aengus the Younger, is an Irish deity associated with love and creativity. There are said to be four birds constantly flying around his head. Aengus was the son of an illicit affair between the Dagda and Boann, … Continue reading →

Posted in Celtic, Language, Magic, Mythology | Tagged aengus og, boann, bodb derg, caer ibermaith, cuchulainn, dagda, diarmuid o'duibne, elcmar, fionn mac cumhaill, grainne, midir, samhain, st. patrick, swans |

The Drinking Fairy’s Diet

Leprechauns are omnipresent at this time of year, despite the fact that they don’t really have anything to do with St. Patrick per se. I think it’s mostly just that they’re of Irish origin and look good on decorations and … Continue reading →

A Brief Visit to Tir na n’Og

Before the exploration of the world made it necessary for fairylands to be located in alternate universes, dimensional pockets, or far-off planets, it was pretty common for the writers of legends to set them in unexplored or barely explored regions … Continue reading →

Posted in C.S. Lewis, Celtic, Chronicles of Narnia, Japanese, Mythology, Oz | Tagged aurea, embarr, fairies, fionn mac cumhaill, melody grandy, niamh of the golden hair, oisin, oscar, st. patrick, the lost king of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, tir na nog, tuatha de danann, urashima taro, wizard of oz, zim greenleaf, zim greenleaf of oz |