Amanda Leduc’s Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space is an outstanding addition to…

Faerie

By the time I was two years old, I weighed thirteen pounds and was too…

Frogs

My last post was about water in fairy tales, with a particular emphasis on wells.…

The banks of Sulphur Creek in southern Ontario were my childhood haunting grounds. The creek…

Dogs are descendants of one of the most feared beings on earth: From the diminutive…

During the European witch hunts and trials, thousands of cats were put to death, accused…

Tabitha “Tabby” Aykroyd was servant and friend to Anne, Emily, Charlotte and Branwell Bronte for…

2019 was, in many ways, the year of the fraud. A case in point: the…

Thousands of years since the first fish goddess emerged from the primordial human collective unconscious,…

A mother fox dug under the old barn now used as a storage shed. Some…