It seems there is a particular charm that attaches itself to the world of hidden tunnels, especially to ones that...
Myths and Legends
Born in the 135Os, Dick Whittington was a poor boy even if, eventually, became a wealthy merchant and three-time Lord...
Zhiva, Dziwa, Zywa, Siwa, or Sewa are all names for the Slavic Goddess of Life. Words that derive from here...
One of Ireland’s most enduring legends tells us of how O’Donoghue, who was once Lord of the Lakes of Killarney,...
We are in Peru. The history of the creation of some local cities is sometimes based on the Inca mythological...
Alps are creatures that appear in nightmares in the middle of the night. This mythical creature would appear in the...
"Bysen'' is the creature who haunts the woods of Gotland, in Sweden's largest island. Most of the time he takes...
"But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more." 🧜♀️ The tale of The Little Mermaid...
Many miners in the 19th century both in the United Kingdom and America but not only, believed in the existence...
In Rome and in Greece, in this period, the Pleiades were remembered, and predictions were made on the illnesses of...
The legend of the Irish Leprechaun is a well-known one: little wee well-dressed men, often angry or drunk (or both)...
Spring gets nearer, and a symbol of the season is the Pussy Willow. Salix discolor is its botanical name, and...
Leshy, literally He-of-the-forest is a tutelary deity of the forests in Slavic mythology. He was depicted a tall, elderly man...
According to a Russian legend, hidden beneath the waters of Lake Svetloyar, in the Nizhny Novgorod Region north-east of Moscow,...
Black Shuck, Old Shuck, Old Shock or simply Shuck is the name given to a ghostly black dog which is...
The legends concerning Father (or King) Frost are inspired by ancient traditions about this mythical figure that in ancient times...
Every self-respecting Scottish castle has its own ghost, whether scary or melancholy, based on the history of each individual manor....
Colombia is full of magic and mystery and there is a single village in the country that does not boast...
As night settles in Africa, across Togo and Ghana, where the Ewe people lives, the Adze, it is said, slips...
Try to imagine: you're a normal worker, and you live in your pretty cottage just outside Dublin. It’s autumn and,...
The Tar River flows into the Pamlico Sound after crossing much of the northeast part of North Carolina. It meanders...
After a lavish wedding in a stately mansion, members of the wedding party play a game of hide-and-seek. It isn't...
The "undead dead" have always been an interesting aspect of global folklore. Many cultures seem to have at least a...
Can some verses hurt someone? A popular Japanese story is about a poem called "Tomino's Hell" (トミノの地獄). They say that...
Hinnagami are powerful spirits from Toyama Prefecture, Japan, that live inside in dolls. In Japan dolls take on an important...
Deep within the shifting sands of the Gobi Desert, an area already popular due its unsolved mysteries and its legends,...
The legend of La Llorona, which literally means in Spanish language “Weeping Woman”, has been a part of Hispanic culture...
In Jewish folklore, a golem is an animated anthropomorphic being that is magically created entirely from inanimate matter (usually clay...
The fairies...magical creatures we've heard of since childhood. Fairies are imagined of small stature, dressed in green or red and...
You know, simply put, the markings on the moon that look like a rabbit pounding in a pestle? This is...
