Today is the midway point between the summer solstice and the fall equinox and perhaps, like me, you feel a sudden desire to stop time...

An Incubus; Colour print [19th century?] after a painting by Georg Kininger, 'The Dream of Queen Eleanor', 1795. What is a folklorist to...

Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy in the early 2000s and Michael Crichton's 1999 The 13th Warrior understood the visual nature of...