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We craft and tell stories because we’ve stood on the uncertain edge between the waking world and our imagination, between enchantment and fear. And we remember other stories that help us build our own stories, scraps of lumber and fragments of narrative we gather together to make stories for ourselves.

Scottish Halloween Matchmaking

Posted on 24 October, 2015

All Hallows’ Eve has long cultivated folk rituals and folktales of all varieties.

R.I.P. Sir Terry Pratchett

Posted on 16 March, 201516 March, 2015

Some thoughts on the passing of Sir Terry Pratchett.

The Three Spinning Women

Posted on 15 March, 201316 March, 2013

Be it the spindles in Mother Holle and Briar Rose, or the wheels in The Twelve Huntsmen or Rumpelstiltskin, spinning is everywhere in the background of Grimm’s fairy tales. As Maria Tatar points out, there’s…Continue Reading

Bitter Greens

Posted on 18 February, 201319 February, 2013

An Interview with Kate Forsyth Kate Forsyth is an Australian writer of fantasy novels for both adults and children. Her first book ‘The Witches of Eileanan’ was named a Best First Novel of 1998 by…Continue Reading

Witches in British Children’s Fiction

Posted on 1 November, 20121 November, 2012

Reposted from Seven Miles of Steel Thistles. “Witch” is not a neutral word. In popular usage, even in this day and age, calling a woman a ‘witch’ is never complimentary – but neither