The Baleful Head, c. 1876, Edward Coley Burne-Jones (Click on picture to enlarge) I am the baleful head The above pictur...

Grimm’s Saga No. 119: Crystal Ball Gazing   A noble and beautiful maiden and a distinguished young man bore an intense lov...

The Serious Business of Finding a Mate (The historical background of necromancy employed to find a mate.) (The lover revealed o...

Emperor Barbarossa and his sons, Henry, King of Rome and Frederick, Duke of Swabia Grimm’s Saga No. 23  Frederick Barbarossa at K...

The Owl of Minerva (Roman) or Menrva ( Menerva, Etruscan ) Menrva was an Etruscan goddess most like the Greek goddess Athena .  Be...

Excerpt from the Mabinogion * via the Wiki-page   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llyn_Cowlyd  "So they proceeded to the place whe...

Taken from: British Birds, W. H. Hudson, 1902: The following account by W.H. Hudson in 1902 describes our strange relationship to...

  Grimm's Fairy Tale No. 174: The Owl Or the Tragic Fairy tale of a Schuhu A few hundred years ago people were not as smart or ...