Fans of The Shadowhunter Chronicles may already be familiar with The Seelie Court. That goes double for those who have been following the TV series Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments. The Seelie queen is the sometime ally, sometimes antagonist of the protagonist teens. Operating with her own agenda, the Seelie queen …
While I have not deliberately attempted to follow Propp’s Functions of Folktales as a pattern, nevertheless Legend does fit it very well (but not perfectly). Russian formalist Vladimir Propp described (somewhat abstractly) a set of recurring plot devices that he found in a certain genre of Russian folk tales. He …
Unless you grew up near the sea this particular reference to a mermaid’s purse might leave you scratching your head. Malial was certainly confused. In reality, a mermaid’s purse does not really come from a mermaid it is something called Chondrichthyes which is a kind of egg sack. The mermaid’s purse …
While collecting mushrooms Malial encounters an urisk. What is an urisk and where are they found? The urisk is a mythical household spirit from English and Scottish folklore. You may be more familiar with another name that urisks are known by – the brownie. However, to the Lowland Scots, they were known as urisks so that is what we …
