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1. The Legend of Melusine, Half Woman and Half Serpent
(Folklore)
“Discover how a vow broken cost everything” ~Crystal Wind She married into one of medieval Europe's great noble houses on a single condition: never see her on a Saturday. When that promise broke, ...
Created on 26 August 2026
2. The Green Children of Woolpit: A Mystery No One Solved
(Unexplained Mysteries)
... into the sunlit fields of Woolpit with no way back. The Historical Records What makes the Green Children of Woolpit unusual among medieval legends is that the story wasn't preserved through folklore ...
Created on 25 August 2026
3. Morgan le Fay: Sorceress, Healer, and Misjudged Queen
(Avalon and King Arthur)
... and Sometimes His Enemy As the legend expanded, Morgan was folded into Arthur's family as his half-sister, trained in magic, and — in the darker medieval retellings — cast as a bitter rival scheming ...
Created on 21 August 2026
4. Rare Superstitions Still Alive Around the World
(Superstitions)
... French villages, and you'll be met with nervous glances. This rare but active superstition dates back to medieval times, when bakers would reserve upside-down loaves for the town executioner. Even today, ...
Created on 18 August 2026
5. Soul Exchanges: Dybbuks, Walk-Ins & Spirit Mysteries
(Folklore)
... That’s the core similarity. Everything else tends to contrast sharply. Dybbuk: Rooted in ancient-to-medieval Jewish mysticism. Usually involuntary for the host. Often involves a troubled or sinful ...
Created on 27 June 2026
6. Owls in Folklore: Omens, Messengers and Guardians of the Night
(Folklore)
... specific ceremonies and understandings around owl medicine that are still practiced today. Owls in European Folklore In much of medieval and early modern Europe, the owl's reputation darkened. As Christianity ...
Created on 19 April 2026
7. Unveiling John the Baptist’s Hidden Power: A Mystical Journey
(The Ascended Masters)
... corrupt powers, and steadfast in his divine mission. The Templars, those medieval warrior monks cloaked in legend, saw in John a mirror of their own ideals: moral courage forged in the crucible of spiritual ...
Created on 22 June 2025
8. Spring Goddesses Reveal Life Changing Secrets
(Compendium of Mythology)
...  Lessons of Authenticity and Personal Evolution Blodeuwedd's story teaches us to be true to ourselves. Recorded by medieval monks, it talks about finding new life in hard times. Her transformation into ...
Created on 23 March 2025
9. History and Legends of Incubus and Succubus: Origins and Beliefs
(Folklore)
... them on the internet through websites. They were frequently connected to demonic spirits and blamed for sexual dysfunction and nightmares in medieval Europe. These entities exist in various cultural contexts. ...
Created on 28 August 2024
10. Green Man - A Knight with Father Christmas
(Lisa Iris)
... Revolution. This brings to mind another green rebel and social reformer, whose face peered through oak leaves, like “The Watcher” depicted in medieval churches. Robin Hood and his Merry Men, in forest ...
Created on 04 December 2023
11. The Evolution Of Humanity - The Seven Root Races Of Mankind - Part 2
(Enlightenment and Teachings)
... a dense jungle, what they would see was the life of the elements. They could see the rock elementals, the mineral elementals, the gnomes, or the pygmies cited by the ancient medieval alchemists when ...
Created on 25 November 2023
12. February Fever
(Lisa Iris)
... playing cards, on heraldry and in medieval manuscript illuminations depicting courtly love. Was the heart an ideogram for erotic curves?  Ultimately, the heart can be traced back to the 7th century ...
Created on 02 February 2023
13. Maiden, Mother…Crone?
(Lisa Iris)
... evil, ugly witch from a medieval, papal playbook.  Her name, derived from the Old North French carogne, means carrion. The Crone is woman’s fear of aging: to become asexual, ugly and reviled. ...
Created on 18 August 2013
14. Time for a New Mythology
(Gaia - Pepper Lewis)
... to Irelands, and there again came medieval depictions of all types of the living and the nonliving of that time. And, of course, in those stories there were common aspects associated to those who walked ...
Created on 06 May 2011
15. Mystical Glastonbury: Legends and Spiritual History
(Sacred Places)
... plants flourish, air sparkles, serenity prevails. Dowsers confirm their paths; intersections were chosen for cathedrals and temples. Sacred Geometry and Sacred Architecture Freemasons and medieval ...
Created on 09 April 2011
16. History of the Pentagram
(Wicca)
... of Christ and from then until medieval times, it was a lesser-used Christian symbol. Prior to the time of the Inquisition, there were no 'evil' associations to the pentagram. Rather its form implied ...
Created on 22 January 2011
17. Samhain
(Wheel of the Year)
... the medieval Church from co-opting Samhain's other motif, commemoration of the dead. To the Church, however, it could never be a feast for all the dead, but only the blessed dead, all those hallowed (made ...
Created on 17 January 2011
18. Yule
(Wheel of the Year)
... hael' (be whole or hale). Medieval Christmas folklore seems endless: that animals will all kneel down as the Holy Night arrives, that bees hum the '100th psalm' on Christmas Eve, that a windy Christmas ...
Created on 17 January 2011
19. Litha
(Wheel of the Year)
... properly a Jack in the Green! Also obvious is that behind the medieval conception of St. John lies a distant, shadowy Pagan deity, perhaps the archetypal Wild Man of the Wood, whose face stares down at ...
Created on 17 January 2011
20. Gods and Monsters of the Winter Solstice
(Compendium of Mythology)
... features—legs, horns, and beard—representing the wild and untamed aspects of nature. The Green Man: A recurring motif in medieval European art, portrayed as a face surrounded by or sprouting foliage, ...
Created on 19 December 2010
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