Journal
“In my end is my beginning.” *** Mary Queen of Scots, or Mary Stuart, inherited the Scottish throne at just six days old. Her reign was marked by conspiracy, treachery and death, often involving one of her husbands. History has...
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Pandora - “all-giver”, a title of the earth goddess Rhea, embodied as the first woman in a misogynic fable by Hesiod, who tried to blame war, death, disease and all other ills on women. Hesiod claimed that Zeus sent Pandora...
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Ariadne, whose thread took Theseus through the labyrinth, was a princess of Crete or a Minoan goddess. As a deity, she was the mistress of the labyrinth, a mortal dance game that no living person ever leaves. Left by Theseus,...
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"Fair is foul, and foul is fair Hover through the fog and filthy air" - The Three Witches, from Shakespeare's Macbeth *** Cunning folk, also known as folk healers or wise folk, or, in Swedish, "kloka gummor" ("wise old women") were practitioners of folk medicine, folk...
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- A Story from Wales - ONE BRIGHT moonlit night, a young man was on his way to visit his sweetheart. As he passed by a lake, he saw a group of fairies dancing and reveling in a field. Drawn...
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