The Ermine Portrait of Elizabeth I of England (1585), attributed to Nicholas Hilliard

The Good Housewife’s and Husbandman’s Guide to Faeries

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It is my purpose to tell you about our English fairies so that you may appropriately honor them and avoid angering the Fair Folk,...
Veronica Varlow Faerie Magazine

Turn Your Life Into A Real Life FaerieTale

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It was a Saturday night and I was blaring from the speakers, candles flickered around the room, and everything that I ever wished for was...
© Daria Hlazatova

The Mythical Moon

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Illustration by: © Daria Hlazatova I was mad for Moon Maid. As illustrated by Chester Gould, she was buxom with hypnotic, lushly lashed eyes, a platinum-blonde...
ILLUSTRATION BY GUINEVERE VON SNEEDEN

The Makara and His Meal

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The makara peered out of the river, letting the sunshine, as warm and yellow as melted ghee, dribble down over his elephantine snout. He’d...
Photo by Liana Mikah on Unsplash, Witch, Enchanted Living Magazine

Seeking the Witch

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BY SARA CLETO AND BRITTANY WARMAN Few words conjure up an always bubbling, deeply complex brew of emotion like the whisper of witch. Depending on...
John William Godward “The New Perfume” 1914. Wikimedia Commons.

And Maidens Call It Love-In-Idleness

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Children! To perform this nifty trick, ask your mother for a shelled-out lemon, balled-up handkerchiefs, a vial of perfume, fire, and a pistol. “I...

Bringing the Macabre Into Your Fiction

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Be it tales of wicked fairies, necromancers in their bone palaces, or demons waiting by the roadside to bargain for souls, the macabre has...
© Ricardo Reitmeyer:shutterstock.com

By The Light of The Moon

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“The moon replenishes the earth; when she approaches it, she fills all bodies, while, when she recedes, she empties them.” —from Natural History by Pliny...

Tam Lin Remembers The Faerie Queen

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She had eyes like apple seeds. A small, angular face that reminded me of a fox’s mask. Was it a mask she wore the whole time I...

Self-Portrait As Mythological Creature

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  I tore off my skin in the moonlight and became a seal, sleek and noisy. One day a man put his arms around me, and my...