It was bizarre living in Dublin during my formative years, feeling both at home and out of place in the very country that was ...

Folklorist Jo Kerrigan, has urged farmers to steer clear of fairy forts to avoid evoking the wrath of their other-worldly ...

The Grammy-winning musician performed as Persephone in the Broadway musical created in Vermont by New Haven native Anais ...

Despite ominous links, owls are spectacular raptors which do much to help clean up our countryside by preying on rodents ...

The Celtic myth says that Newgrange is a fairy mound or a sidh. A group of ancient people, the Tuatha Dé Danann, or “people of the goddess Danu,” dwelled there. Newgrange was built by the god ...

the Irish Goddess of War and Fertility, Birth and Death. According to Irish mythology, the cave is a portal to the Otherworld, and every Samhain, The Morrigan, keeper of the Otherword, leaves the ...

Stephen Winick, PhD, of the Library of Congress’s American Folklife Center, pretty handily takes the myth apart in his article “Ostara ... just as there is a hare on the statue of [the Celtic goddess] ...

When Susannah Wright graduated from Rice in 2018, the prospect of returning as faculty was nothing more than a pipe dream.

The Victorian era is famously regarded as a period of restraint—restraint in clothing, social norms, emotional behavior, communication … the list could go on and on.

Cats are theorized to be older than dogs, with their family tree branching off nearly 2.5 million years before canines. They ...