Jakob Grimm describes the following fairy tale phenomena rooted in the heart of many a fairy tale: Here, falling in love is likened to the...

For the Western mind, it is hard to read The White Snake without noticing the abundance of references to one of the most famous Biblical s...

The fairy tale The Three Languages roughly follows the life of Saint Severus, whose relics were translated to the Severikirche in Erfurt, ...

Any Liberal Arts major can identify with the fairy tale The Three Languages (full text below). At first glance, the story seems to be a sim...

Fairy Tale Factum: Hooting Ursula  is a wonderful illustration of elements commonly encountered in German folk tales. At first glance,...

Wild Flowers at Anza Borrego Desert State Park, Southern California, Spring 2008 Fairy Tale Factum Easter is the most important Chris...

The Fairy Grotto Excerpt from The Age of Gold by Lucas Cranach National Gallery, Oslo In fernyear there lived many bewitched an...

March 12th On this day in 1753: Johann Peter Kriechbaum, mayor of the Upper Kainsbach Zent, told the following on March 12, 1753: “In...

Marc Chagall, Madonna of the Village A woman in white appears in woods and meadows. From time to time she even enters horse stalls ...

The Enchanted Landscape of the Frog King Pagan Symbols and Themes: Water Well, Linden Tree and Sun The early Christian church forba...

Reading Rapunzel Mistress Gotel: Who is She? Before Europe had been widely Christianized, devout pagans believed food offerings were nece...

Hag, Hex, Harpy or Hierophant? Three types of Pictish stones in North Eastern Scotland bear witness to a changing worldview as Christi...

Fairy Tale Factum Snake images appear in the mythology of ancient cultures across pre-Christian Europe. Serpent symbols have been found ca...

268. Mistress Berta or the Woman in White A woman in white appears in castles of many royal families, especially at Neuhaus in Bohemia, Be...

Fairy Tale Factum: This story mentions two types of shafted weapons that were used primarily in the Middle Ages. The German Hellebarde (...

Grimm's Saga 281: The Phantom Ship People who live on the Baltic Sea believe they can often foresee a shipwreck or stranding because the...