Dark Legends and Moonlit Myths

Happy Halloween!

We have all encountered trolls in childhood fairy-tales and stories; they have a deep history in folklore and mythology as well as finding ...

Many cultures have historically used catacombs to bury their dead, in fact people have been laying their dead to rest in caves since time be...

The ‘Hairy Hands’ are a unique legend to Dartmoor in England, and to quite a specific area at that. Only dating from the 1920’s, the stretch...

Every weekend on the Myth or Maxim blog there is a post featuring the Myth or Maxim Chronicle which is a round up of the week's tweets, ...

Fairy rings are circles or arcs of fungi that seem to magically spring up overnight on the lawn, in a forest or on moorland; there is a lot...

Yesterday, November 4th was the anniversary of the discovery of the entrance to King Tutankhamen's Tomb in 1922. It was one of the most ...