by Nicholas Kotar | May 27, 2020 | Articles, Folk Stories & Traditions
“Whatever shadow may fall on your life–maybe you are worried about the fate of your country, or perhaps dark thoughts visit you concerning your own future, or maybe your entire life seems an unbearable wound–remember the fairy tale. Listen to her quiet, ancient, wise...
by Eugene Schreder | May 20, 2020 | — Bestiary, Articles, Bible, Folk Stories & Traditions, Short Stories, Theory
This is part I in a two-part article, and the first article in a series of posts that discuss the symbolism of a particular and peculiar literary tradition within Western Europe. Collectively, this body of works is called “the Bestiary.” To reduce this mysterious...
by Gareth Boyd | May 15, 2020 | Articles, Folk Stories & Traditions
Within the panoply of Western mythic imagery, perhaps few things excite the imagination like that picture of a brave knight, armed with sword and shield, fighting and defeating a scaled dragon while rescuing a damsel in distress or liberating a town terrorized by...
by Kathryn Wilson | May 13, 2020 | Articles, Bible, Folk Stories & Traditions
You know a story is good if people write new versions of it over, and over again. Given this metric, Charles Perrault’s Bluebeard must be the grand-daddy of all stories. Or it is at least a really popular uncle. There have been dozens of re-writes and variants over...
