Showing posts with label folklore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label folklore. Show all posts
Thursday, December 26, 2024

Anti-Santas

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Nowadays almost everybody has heard of Krampus, the goatlike humanoid creature from central Europe who accompanies Saint Nicholas to punish ...
Thursday, November 02, 2023

Scary Solstice

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I recently read a lavishly illustrated book about midwinter folklore, THE FRIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, by Jeff Belanger, featuring Krampus, the ...
Thursday, April 07, 2022

Folklore 101

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At this year's ICFA, I heard a paper by folklore scholar Jeana Jorgensen and was so impressed that I immediately ordered her book FOLKLO...
Thursday, January 27, 2022

Creative Fakelore for Fun and Enlightenment

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The January-February 2022 issue of SKEPTICAL INQUIRER includes an article by statistical ecologist Charles G. M. Paxton, narrating his exper...
Thursday, January 31, 2019

Yokai Among Us

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If you're looking for unusual, non-European creatures to use as fictional characters, check out the yokai of Japan. This word, often tra...
Thursday, December 13, 2018

The Monsters of Christmas

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On Facebook I came across a link to an article about the dark side of the Christmas season in many European folk traditions. It includes som...
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Thursday, January 05, 2017

Changelings

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I've just read THE HIDDEN PEOPLE, by Alison Littlewood, a richly textured and deeply disturbing novel about fairy changelings—maybe. We ...
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