Of Beasts that Gloat and Plunder
The Twa Corbies, preparing to dine on the dead knight below, from “Some British Ballads,” 1919, by Arthur Rackham, (Wikimedia Commons)....
Of Beasts that Gloat and Plunder
Fright Club: On the Equality of Monsterkind
Her Undying Love; Gothic Viking Zombie Mayhem
Teaching Gluskabe: Wrestling with American Values
Timely Lessons from the Land of the Coming of the Light
Summer has Come; A Folklorist’s Notebook
Into the Mouth of American Kitsch: Wisconsin’s House on the Rock
Sons of Earth and Fire; The Strange Case of the Narts’ Metallic Men
Too Much of a Good Thing; Epic Burnout in the Jangar Cycle
Beyond Beowulf: Curses, Shapechangers, and Doomed Love
To Catch a Catoblepas by the Tail
Stealing Fire: John Colarusso and the Tales of the Narts
One Sad Woman; Reclaiming Hildeburh’s Tale from her Men
Look to the Light; A Folklorist’s Notebook for February
Toying with Ancient Stories; Uncovering the Tales of the Old English Poem “Widsith”
Beauty in the Beast: Photographer Charles Fréger and the Wilder Men
The Farmer from the Barrow: an Unusual Christmas Story
Seldom Told Tales; Unraveling Viktor Rydberg’s Norse Mythos
Discovering the Dawnland
Dracula Revisited: On my long-ago journey to Romania
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