The Good Housewife’s and Husbandman’s Guide to Faeries
It is my purpose to tell you about our English fairies so that you may appropriately honor them and avoid angering the Fair Folk,...
Turn Your Life Into A Real Life FaerieTale
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...
The Mythical Moon
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...
The Makara and His Meal
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...
Seeking the Witch
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...
And Maidens Call It Love-In-Idleness
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
Be it tales of wicked fairies, necromancers in their bone palaces, or demons waiting by the roadside to bargain for souls, the macabre has...
By The Light of The Moon
“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
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
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...