An Intoxicating Interview with Cat Marx of Deep Midnight Perfumes
We've told you before about glamorous perfumer Cat Marx of Deep Midnight Perfumes, which is now celebrating its ten-year anniversary of conjuring all manner...
The Troubadour’s Guide to Modern Courtly Love
Article from the Medieval Issue #41
Print // Digital
Ah, young courtly love, the all-consuming, not-quite platonic, and entirely effusive adoration of a medieval knight for his liege’s wife. The...
The Other Side of Abundance
The most famous prayer to the greatest goddess of abundance the world has ever known is the Homeric Hymn to Demeter. This prayer-hymn, which...
Witch of the Wood
They said she was outside of the village by a couple of miles, in a sort of travel wagon camped on the edge of...
Charms for Summer
It begins with the pink moon in spring. It begins with fireflies in the hedges and falling in love for the first time.
It’s passion,...
Offerings On Spensers’ Faery
The waies, through which my weary steps I guyde,
In this delightfull land of Faery,
Are so exceeding spacious and wyde,
And sprinckled with such sweet variety,
Of...
An Interview With Diana Gabaldon
One fine day last spring, I met my sister-in-law Rita for lunch. She was clutching a chunky paperback with an embossed cover, the kind,...
The Eternal Feminine of The Damned
Imagine this: A nubile dancer named Salome struts before a lustful king. She wields her bejeweled half-dressed body like a weapon. Her desire? To...
Our Top Five Literary Witches
Writing a list of our top five witches is surprisingly hard, but not for the reasons you might assume. It’s not that we can’t...
Selkie
It’s not that I’m not comfortable
in my own skin. It’s that I can’t
ever be without it—it’s a harness
in a handbag, holding me to the...