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Today is St Dwynwen’s Day. It's like a Welsh Valentine’s Day only kind of bleaker. Dwynwen was a 5th century Welsh woman who became the patron saint of lovers. She
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Shaun Tan creates captivating and disorientating worlds that have illustrated the dreamscapes of a generation of Australian kids. I find The Red Tree (2001) very poignant. It explores Tan’s first
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There is a whole realm of birds in folk horror; the screeching owl or murder of crows usually get top billing. But I want to make a case for the
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Okay it’s time to get acquainted with the Yule Goat. Originating in pre-Christian Scandinavia and the Germanic pagan tradition, the last batch of wheat of the harvest was designated ‘Julbocken’,
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The Apple Tree Man is the name given to the spirit of the oldest apple tree in an orchard and is found across Old English folklore, particularly in the South
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White Baneberry (Actaea Pachypoda) is a flowering plant found in the eastern part of North America. In early spring the plant appears quite normal. But as the season progresses the
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The Lost Gardens of Heligan (or Lowarth Helygen, in old Cornish) are a collection of lush botanical gardens located near Mevagissey in Cornwall and I could look at pictures of
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I am drawn to Japanese folklore because their yōkai (spirits), far from being simple monsters, are multi-faceted characters. Yuki-onna (‘snow woman’), associated with midwinter and snowstorms, is both terrifying to
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The bonfire and processions in Lewes, Sussex are the biggest and most boisterous in the UK, every year commemorating Guy Fawkes' Night by burning effigies of political figures and generally
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A mandrake is the root of the Mandragora family of plant founds across Mediterranean region and throughout Europe. Variations apply but most have a thick, branched roots with almost no
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Baba Yaga is a supernatural being who appears as a ferocious-looking old crone and is found across Slavic folklore traditions. Particularly in Russian lore Baba Yaga flies around in a
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Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol was a theatre in the Pigalle district of Paris which, in its heyday between 1897 until 1962, was the hugely popular venue to watch extremely naturalistic
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