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...

 In the past I've been asked to help people cleanse or bless their new houses. It occurs to me that this sort of simple thing would be g...

  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 ...

       The Carmina Gadelica has a series of charms which all deal with the evil eye, that is the curse laid upon a person by another who wis...

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