Category: North America

September 13, 2025

The Magic of Chocolate: A Fairy’s Favorite Treat

In the heart of every enchanted forest, beyond the whispering willows and the singing brooks, lies a secret grove where the trees bear not apples nor pears—but cocoa pods as golden as the morning...

October 23, 2022

HOW A FISH SWAM IN THE AIR AND A HARE IN THE WATER. (The Violet Fairy Book, 1889) by ANDREW LANG

Once upon a time an old man and his wife lived together in a little village. They might have been happy if only the old woman had had the sense to hold her tongue...

August 12, 2022

Why Brother Bear Has no Tail (Nights with Uncle Remus) by Joel Chandler Harris

“I ‘clar’ ter gracious, honey,” Uncle Remus exclaimed one night, as the little boy ran in, “you sholy ain’t chaw’d yo’ vittles. Hit ain’t bin no time, skacely, sence de supper-bell rung, en ef...

April 30, 2022

Walpurgis Night and Beltane

May 1st is truly a unique day, as the horror of the mysterious witches’ magic of Walpurgis Night (= the night from April 30th to May 1st) is followed on the gray morning by...

April 30, 2022

THE MAYPOLE OF MERRY MOUNT – (TWICE-TOLD TALES By NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE)

There is an admirable foundation for a philosophic romance in the curious history of the early settlement of Mount Wollaston, or Merry Mount. In the slight sketch here attempted the facts recorded on the...

June 23, 2021

THE RED SWAN (The Indian Fairy Book, 1869) BY CORNELIUS MATHEWS

Three brothers were left destitute, by the death of their parents, at an early age. The eldest was not yet able to provide fully for their support, but he did all that he could...

Category: North America

The Magic of Chocolate: A Fairy’s Favorite Treat

HOW A FISH SWAM IN THE AIR AND A HARE IN THE WATER. (The Violet Fairy Book, 1889) by ANDREW LANG

Why Brother Bear Has no Tail (Nights with Uncle Remus) by Joel Chandler Harris

Walpurgis Night and Beltane

THE MAYPOLE OF MERRY MOUNT – (TWICE-TOLD TALES By NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE)

THE RED SWAN (The Indian Fairy Book, 1869) BY CORNELIUS MATHEWS

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