Dark Legends and Moonlit Myths

Doom Bar - a very nice bitter with a background in folklore. On this day, November 19th in 1911, The Doom Bar in Cornwall claimed two ship...

The term "Neo-paganism" encompasses a very broad spectrum of organizations, groups and beliefs. A neo-pagan (sometimes referred to...

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, ...