Essays:

• Once Upon a Time: a short history of adult fairy tales
• Little Red Riding Hood: The Path of Needles or The Path of Pins
• Cinderella: Ashes, Blood, and the Slipper of Glass
• Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let Down Your Hair
• The Poisoned Apple: The Story of Snow White
• Wild Sanctuary: The Handless Maiden
• Bluebeard and the Bloody Chamber
• What has Disney done to Beauty and her Beast?
• Married to Magic: Animal Brides & Bridegrooms
• Fairies in Legend, Lore, and Literature
• The Stolen Child: Tales of Fairy Changelings
• Tales of a Half-Tamed Land: Devon Folklore
• From Remus & Romulus to Harry Potter: The Orphaned Hero
• Shaking Up the World: Trickster Tales
• Death in Folklore & Fairy Tales
• The Folklore of Hearth & Home
• Transformations: A Fairy Tale Memoir

Selected Folklore & Fairy Tale posts:

• The Folklore of Nettles
• The Folklore of Foxgloves
• The Folklore of Wildflowers
• More Folklore of Wildflowers
• The Folklore of Clouties
• The Folklore of Illness: In a Dark Wood
• The Folklore of Illness: Stories are Medicine
• The Folklore of May Day/Beltane
• The Folklore of Halloween/Samhain
• The Folklore of Christmas/Winter Solstice
• Wandering the Labyrinth: Arrival and Return
• Wandering the Labyrinth: Monsters & Mazes
• The Sacred Pig
• A Skulk of Foxes and Fox Stories
• The Folklore of Pony Encounters
• Art & Lore of Hedgehogs
• Following the Bear
• Running with the Wolves
• Brothers & Beasts: The Boys Who Love Fairy Tales Too
• Once Upon a Time: Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

Into the Woods:

a series of posts on myth, folklore, and the wild world

1. The Language of the Earth
2. The Gift of Wonder
3. Tales of the Forest
4. A Woodland Interlude: The Dog's Tale
5. Wild Folklore: The Green Man & More
6. Wild Community
7. The Dark Forest
8. Wild Sanctuary
9. Wild Men & Women
10. Wild Children
11. Wild Neighbors: The Folklore of Animals
12. Water, Wild & Sacred
13. Once Upon a Time: Re-Imagining Fairy Tales
14. Art from the Fairy Tale Forest
15. Living Wild
16. By the Light of the Moon & Stars
17. The Wisdom of Mountains
18. Following the Deer: Part I
19. Following the Deer: Part II
20. Following the Deer: Part III
21. Following the Deer: Part IV
22. Following the Deer: L'Envoi
23. In the Forest of Stories: Part I
24. In the Forest of Stories: Part II
25. In the Forest of Stories: Part III
26. The Deepwood: Part I
27. The Deepwood: Part II
28. Up in the Trees
29. Beneath the Trees
30. Spinning Straw Into Gold
31. Swan's Wing
32. Swan Maidens & Crane Wives
33. Fairy Tales: As Necessary as Breathing & Sleeping
34. Sleeping Beauty I: Enchanted Sleep
35. Sleeping Beauty II: Fairy Blessings
36. Sleeping Beauty III: The Thirteenth Fairy
37. When Stories Take Flight: The Folkore of Birds
38. For Our Feline Friends: The Folklore of Cats
39. Halloween & Samhain: At the Death of the Year
40. The Folklore of Food
41. The Folklore of Goats
42. The Folklore of Sheep
43. The Folklore of Rabbits and Hares
44. The Speech of Animals
45. Elemental Magic
46. The Enchanted Harp
47. The Child Ballads: Part I.
48. The Child Ballads: Part II
49. Wanderers & Wilderness
50. Old Stones, Old Gods, & Silence
51. Devon Folklore: Tales of a Half-Tamed Land
52. Twilight Tales
53. The Wild Hunt
54. Following the Hare
55. Troll Maidens & the Magic of Bridges

The paintings above are "The Goose Girl" by Arthur Rackham (1867-1939), "The Frog Prince" by Warwick Goble (1862-1943), East of the Sun, West of the Moon by Kay Nielsen (1886-1957), and The Forest Tarn by John Bauer (1882-1918). The drawings to the right are by H.J. Ford (1860-1941) and Helen Stratton (1867-1961).