Poisonous & Beautiful: Amanita muscaria
One of the most prettiest and poisonous mushroom is Amanita muscaria. It's best known by its other name "Fly Agaric".The mushroom belongs to the Agaric family with their identity of colourful speckled...
View ArticleReflections on Midsummer
It's Midsummer Night, and then it will be the Summer Solstice. It's called the "longest day of the year" as it will have the most daylight hours and the shortest night in the year. As the Summer...
View ArticleThe green children of Woolpit
There is an old legend from an English village called Woolpit, in Suffolk. A thousand years ago, during the 1100's, Post Norman conquest era, at the time of King Stephen, village peasants were working...
View ArticleAdventure Girls: Alice
This is the second post of a new series of adventuresses."Adventure Girls" are about different heroines from fairytales, story books, folklore and legends.They're girls who've been on exciting...
View ArticleValkyrie Hild
Hild or Hildr is one of the Valkyries of war and appears on a battle field bringing back the dead. She can raise the dead and also she's said to have the ability to give immortality to certain people....
View ArticlePoisonous & Beautiful: Box jellyfish
Now that Summer is here in full heat, think about what's there when you want to get to the beach and swim in the blue sea. Beware of the Box Jellyfish kind, as these have a nasty sting.Box jellyfish...
View ArticleSleeping near the Arrows
I've just returned from a camping trip at a site just down the road from ancient standing stones.The purpose was to visit the sacred stones, see the ancient town of Boroughbridge and enjoy some time...
View ArticleCu Sidhe
 Cu Sidhe is a name of a species of mythical dog that features in ancient Celtic folklore. This dog is supernatural and belongs to the faery realm, otherwise nicknamed "Fairy Hound". Cu Sidhe is an...
View ArticleAdventure Girls: Ariel
This is the third post of a new series of different story adventuresses."Adventure Girls" are about different heroines from fairytales, story books, folklore and legends. They're girls who've been on...
View ArticleValkyrie Kara
This is quite a difficult valkyrie to discuss in the next subject. She's known by two names, Sigrun and Kara. Sigrun was a mortal woman and a valkyrie, who went through a metamorphosis and became Kara,...
View ArticlePoisonous & Beautiful: Pterois
To be fair this particular subject is venomous and not necessarily poisonous. But I include creatures with venom in this project too on Poisonous and Beautiful lifeforms.The Pterois is a venomous and...
View ArticleNazca geoglyph dog and more puzzles
Recent storms have revealed new geoglyph shapes on the vast Nazca Plain, a mountainous and desert region of Peru. One of the new hill figures is called The Dog due to it's canine like features and long...
View ArticleCrystals, glitter and iron maidens
In the time of legends, considered to be the Golden Age, were fabulous robots made of gold, silver, bronze and precious metals. Some of the most famous of these artifacts were the beautiful handmaidens...
View ArticleAdventure Girls: Vasilisa
This is the fourth post of a new series of different story adventuresses."Adventure Girls" are about different heroines from fairytales, story books, folklore and legends. They're girls who've been on...
View ArticleOak tree and acorn spirits
The Oak tree is sacred to Thunor, the god of thunder. Used by many Gothi, warriors and men, oak wood is symbolic of masculine power, drawing on the divine and supernatural strike of His lightning...
View ArticleValkyrie Reginleif
Mentioned on a pillar at a 12th Century stave church in Ornes, Norway, this valkyrie is one of the ferocious and divine of the Valkyries.Her name is Reginleif and she's "Daughter of the Gods". A...
View ArticleHazel runes
The hazel tree is another tree that is most sacred to Thunor (Thor), the god of thunder. Hazel is also a remedy against wounds from lightning bolts. The hazel tree has a significant part in magical...
View ArticleWerewolves, rabies and romance
The act of transformation from human to wolf in werewolf legends, must stem from an actual real event, or a common practice. The debate of whether or not werewolves exist is ongoing. Some believe that...
View ArticleGhosts and food
There is a misunderstanding that ghosts are just phantoms of light, images of the past. Maybe this is true for some of the things that happen: silent phantom World War Two aircraft that appear to crash...
View ArticleAdventure Girls: Gretel
This is the FIFTH post of my series in this blog. It's about different girls in well known fairytales and legends. They're girls who've been on exciting adventures, and many of them had to survive or...
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