Perhaps the most notorious of all the Cornish Giants is Bolster, a vicious and tyrannical Giant who terrorised the people of the land round about as...
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Folklore Thursday: The Giants of Cornwall: Wrath
Giants are a race of beings common to many mythologies, legends, folk tales and literature. The one thing that unites them across all cultures is...
Yallery Brown, evil fairy
Yallery Brown (or ‘Yellowy Brown’) is an evil fairy, possibly one of the Yarthkin (‘Little Earth Men’), the East Anglian Earth Fairies of the Fen...
Merlin #FolkloreThursday
Merlin, from the prophetic bard Myrddin Renowned as one of the most famous legendary figures of all time and certainly the most famous in Arthurian...
Hellekin, leader of the Wild Hunt
Fairy King, Commedia dell’Arte trickster nHellekin or Hellequin or Herla or Harlequin is a figure of German, English, French and Italian folklore,...
Goddess of the Week – Kadita, the Mermaid Goddess
Kadita was the beautiful princess of the Pajajaran kingdom in West Java, who, as the only daughter of the king, was destined to become queen, even...





