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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 |

A Miracle of Rare Device

As I mentioned in my post on the book, the Ancient Mariner from The Pearl and the Pumpkin was originally a character from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. In the story, it’s the schoolmaster who … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Dirk Gently, Douglas Adams, Dreams, Poetry | Tagged albatrosses, albert ross, ancient mariner, dirk gently's holistic detective agency, flying dutchman, kubla khan, Kublai Khan, lit brick, marco polo, samuel purchas, samuel taylor coleridge, the pearl and the pumpkin, the rime of the ancient mariner, wandering jew, xanadu |

I Still Read Books

The Homeward Bounders, by Diana Wynne Jones – This book adapts the idea of gods playing games with mankind, except here they’re not really gods, but demonic beings known as Them who banish anyone who interferes with their games to … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Celtic, Diana Wynne Jones, Greek Mythology, Mythology | Tagged a wizard abroad, balor, barry the sprout, diane duane, flying dutchman, hugo rune, lugh, otto black, prometheus, robert rankin, the homeward bounders, the witches of chiswick, wandering jew, young wizards series |

This Immortal Coil

It seems that, as long as humans have been aware of death, they’ve entertained the possibility of staving it off and living forever. It’s highly unlikely that this could ever be achieved, since everything has to wear out eventually. Actually, … Continue reading →

Posted in Babylonian, Christianity, Greek Mythology, Islam, Mythology, Religion | Tagged afterlife, ahasuerus, bible, ea, eos, epic of gilgamesh, flood, genesis, gilgamesh, gospel of matthew, gulliver's travels, heaven, hell, immortality, jesus, jonathan swift, king laomedon of troy, luggnagg, muhammad al-mahdi, noah, nymphs, pontius pilate, sanhedrin, second coming, struldbruggs, strymo, titans, tithonus, twelfth imam, utnapishtim, wandering jew, zeus |