Living Liminally

  I recently published a new book of translations from old/middle Irish into English and as sometimes happens when the subject comes up peop...

  As we're getting into October and people are turning their  attention to Samhain I'm starting to see discussion and references to ...

Today I wanted to offer a quick and very rough guide to terms used around material connected to folklore. I find that this subject can be ve...

I saw a post on Twitter, under the folklore Thursday hashtag, claiming that the Irish goddess of music and the harp is Cana Cludhmor, which ...

 Despite the common modern perception of fairies as lovely and helpful folklore offers a wide range of dangerous Fairy beings who represente...

 There are several very similarly named traditions of witchcraft connected to fairies out there and this has long caused confusion. Which, g...

  fairy from the movie Labyrinth For many people today the word fairy immediately invokes images like the picture above, of a tiny winged be...