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The St. Lucy Show

Posted on December 20, 2023 by Nathan

We watched a Morbid Anatomy lecture by Eric Huang from Saint Podcast about St. Nicholas, and how he developed into the modern Santa Claus, something I’ve written about before. I knew that it isn’t agreed upon that Nicholas was even … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, C.S. Lewis, Catholicism, Christianity, Christmas, Chronicles of Narnia, Food, History, Holidays, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Norse, Poetry, Religion, Roman Empire | Tagged a visit from st nicholas, arthur j. stansbury, befana, cats, clement moore, council of nicaea, donkeys, emperor diocletian, epiphany, eric huang, father christmas, freyja, julian calendar, king herod the great, lucy pevensie, lussekatter, lussi, morbid anatomy, nisser, paschasius, perchta, podcasts, reindeer, saint podcast, santa claus, st. lucy of syracuse, st. lucy's day, st. nicholas, star boys, the children's friend, the lion the witch and the wardrobe, trolls, winter solstice, witches | 2 Comments

Changing in the Telling

Posted on March 21, 2023 by Nathan

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 | 1 Comment

Iron Constitutions

Posted on June 20, 2020 by Nathan

I’ve been looking a bit into witches, and I latched onto one physical trait the Russian Baba Yaga is sometimes said to have, which is iron teeth. Such teeth seem to be associated with witches in general in Slavic lore. … Continue reading →

Posted in African, British, Christianity, Fairy Tales, Finnish, German, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, Russian, Slavic, Technology | Tagged alexander volkov, asanbosam, baba yaga, bronze, demons, dorothy gale, giants, ilmarinen, iron, iron woodman, ivashko, kalevala, magic land, ogres, perchta, prince ivan the witch baby and the little sister of the sun, psoglav, sasabonsam, the wonderful wizard of oz, tin woodman, vampires, wicked witch of the west, witches | 1 Comment

Oh, Baby, Baby, It’s a Wild Hunt

Posted on February 27, 2011 by Nathan

I was thinking of addressing some Germanic mythology today, and looked at the introduction that the Brothers Grimm wrote for their fairy tale collection for possible inspiration. It turns out that I already discussed several of the mythological figures mentioned … Continue reading →

Posted in Celtic, Christmas, Fairy Tales, German, Holidays, Mythology, Norse | Tagged baldur, befana, berchta, bertha, brothers grimm, cernunnos, charlemagne, fairies, ghosts, gwydion fab don, gwynn ap nudd, herne the hunter, jacob grimm, king arthur, knecht ruprecht, krampus, loki, odin, perchta, santa claus, satan, siegfried, sigurd, sir francis drake, sleipnir, snow white, the goose girl, trolls, wild hunt, wilhelm grimm, windsor forest, witches, wotan | 15 Comments

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