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Davy Jones: Celtic Ocean God or Psychopomp? #folklore

If you’re like me, you watched the Pirates of the Caribbean movies obsessively to figure out how it all works. LOL. What I really liked was the Flying Dutchman as it touched on folklore from my own country. So for my version of Davy Jones, I’m looking at various folklore — especially as it falls …

The Faeries and Folklore Podcast by Ronel: Oceans, Rivers, Lakes: Water in Folklore #podcast #faeries #folklore

Episode 52: Water Fae: Oceans, Rivers, Lakes: Water in Folklore Transcript Available at Audible | Podbean | Google Podcasts | Amazon Music | Spotify | Youtube | iHeart Radio | Player FM | Listen Notes | Apple Podcasts | TuneIn

Black Shuck: The One-Eyed Dog #folklore

[intro about subject] Folklore English Fairy and Other Folk Tales by Edwin Sidney Hartland [1890] SPECTRE-DOGS NEITHER Brand in his Popular Antiquities, nor Sir Walter Scott in his Witchcraft and Demonology, mentions spectre-dogs as a peculiar class of apparitions, yet they seem to occupy a distinct branch of English mythology. They are supposed to exist in one …

Oceans, Rivers, Lakes: Water in Folklore #Folklore

Water has always had the way to mesmerise people, so much so that some believe it to hold other realms within it — or the cure to mortality. Folklore BIMINI AND THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH, Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic by Thomas Wentworth Higginson [1898] When Juan Ponce de Leon set forth …

The Faeries and Folklore Podcast by Ronel: Merrows #podcast #faeries #folklore

Episode 51: Water Fae: Merrows The folklore of Merrows in a nutshell, how I reimagined them for my writing, and this faery translated into Afrikaans. Written and narrated by Ronel Janse van Vuuren. Copyright 2022 Ronel Janse van Vuuren — All rights reserved. Learn more about Merrows here. Get the transcript here. Music: Secrets by David Fesliyan …

Aufhocker: The Leaping Black Dog #folklore

There’s not a lot of folklore (that’s not the same source reused in various ways) of the Aufhocker on the internet or even in folklore books. The only original folklore of this creature is in German (and in print books), so I couldn’t access those. But this shapeshifting Black Dog is quite interesting. Folklore The …

Book Club Questions: The Faery Tales Series Volume 1-3 #books #fantasy #RealmsCollide

Celebrating the release of The Faery Tales Series Volume 1-3, I’m sharing a couple of book club questions. Book club questions The Faery Tales Series Volume 1-3 Did you like the fact that folklore is shared throughout? Did you see the moment one of the antagonists for the series was revealed? Do you know who …

The Faeries and Folklore Podcast by Ronel: Selkies #podcast #faeries #folklore

Episode 50: Water Fae: Selkies The folklore of Selkies in a nutshell, how I reimagined them for my writing, and this faery translated into Afrikaans. Written and narrated by Ronel Janse van Vuuren. Copyright 2022 Ronel Janse van Vuuren — All rights reserved. Learn more about Selkies here. Get the transcript here. Music: Secrets by David Fesliyan …

Barguest: The Spectral Dog #folklore

[intro about subject] Folklore The Fairy Mythology by Thomas Keightley [1870] We now proceed to Yorkshire, where the Boggart and the Barguest used to appear in by-gone days. The former, whose name we will presently explain, is the same as the Brownie or Kobold; the latter, whose proper name perhaps is Barn-ghaist, or Barn-spirit, keeps …

That’s It! An Author’s Year in Review 2022 #IWSG #writerslife

It’s the first Wednesday of the month and time for another posting of the Insecure Writer’s Support Group. I like to look back on the year in November as I don’t blog in December. It’s a good way to measure where I am and how far I’ve come — and if I’ve managed to meet …