Folklore, Myths & Legends

Exploring the vast urban legend surrounding this enigmatic figure, John Matthews explains how the Victorian fascination with strange phenomena and ...

Today's parents are increasingly replacing nursery rhymes with the latest pop songs, and fairy tales - now thought too scary for little ones - ...

Book & DVD. This is a collection of translated and annotated Nordic folklore that presents the full repertoires of five storytellers along with...

These lively and entertaining folk tales from one of Britains most diverse counties are vividly retold by writer, storyteller and poet Jennie Baile...

On the eve of the Second World War in Europe, the senior pupils in the National Schools of the West of Ireland were engaged in an important, if som...

The Essex coastline has endured invasion by plundering and bloodthirsty Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, and this mysterious landscape is still ha...

If many hands make light work, how can too many cooks spoil the broth? If youll find the best advice on your pillow, are proverbs even useful? Ho...

The oral storytelling traditions of the British Isles have connected people to the land and to their plant and animal neighbours for centuries. Thi...

First mentioned by William Langland in the late fourteenth century, Robin Hood comes down to us through ballads and folksongs, old chronicles and p...

Being separate from the Scottish mainland, the Shetland Isles have a rich and unique tradition of folklore, from selkies to invading giants and Vik...

Where in Yorkshire can you walk on a dragons backbone? Who goes dancing at the Spot Bottom Hops? Which very old story gives advice about loading a ...

Following the huge success of The Art of Faery, published in 2003, the collaborators have come together once more to bring you this stunning new co...

Cheshire is a county that associates with the giants of English literature, such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Alices Adventures in Wonderlan...

Do you think that legends are all about princes and princesses, knights and heroes, giants and monsters? Well, they arent always. The stories in th...

From the sands of Alexandria via the Renaissance palaces of the Medicis, to our own times, this spiritual adventure story traces the profound influ...

'My name is Vortigern ... ' Generations before Arthur's birth, a British warlord looks back on his life: his rise from humble roots to shake the th...