Grimm’s Fairy Tale No. 197: The Crystal Ball There once lived a sorceress, she had three sons who were filled with brotherly love for eac...

The future casts long shadows on these fairy tale characters. Grimm’s Saga No. 119: Crystal Ball Gazi ng A noble and beautiful m...

The importance of seeing the future. Of all the fairy tale genres presented on this website, the Icelandic form is most interest...

Part II: Finn-magic. Ingimund commences the trip to Iceland . King Harold had retired, the mightiest of all kings in the Nor...

Themes: The Finnwife as prognosticator and the Finns themselves as powerful seers. Destiny versus fortune. Things that can versus thi...

Seers in the New Year: Good Luck, Bad Luck or Out of Luck A Fairy Tale from Iceland: Groa’s Magic It is said that many summe...

To help you navigate the various Christmas links on this blog, sort through the many different Christmas themes and perhaps provide impetus...

The Wild Way / Vicentine and Veronese Alps From a remote area of the Italian Alps, a fairy tale about Christmas spirits haunting the W...

Christmas: a Time of Carols, Trees and Hauntings Christmas trees figure prominently in modern celebrations of the season. However the...

Grimm's Fairy Tale No. 3: Child of Mary There was once a woodcutter, who lived with his wife outside a deep forest. He...