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There is a particular pleasure in reading a text that is hiding something. Not hiding it maliciously, and not hiding it completely. But holding something bac...
Forget everything you think you know about fairies. I mean that seriously. The image most of us carry around, tiny winged creatures trailing sparkles through...
Every great mythology has a cast of characters so vivid and so human that they stay with you long after the stories end. Greek mythology has Achilles and Med...
There is a moment in the history of any living tradition when you can see most clearly what it is made of. Not when it is comfortable and established and sur...
Imagine descending into the earth every morning knowing that the air you breathe might kill you without warning, that the rock above your head might fall wit...
I want to start with a confession. When most people hear the words "Welsh mythology," they picture one of two things. Either a vague sense of dragons and dru...
Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae (c. 1136) gave medieval Britain a heroic national story, from Brutus of Troy to Arthur's golden age and the ...
Every community has lines that should not be crossed. Not the lines drawn by courts and magistrates and formal legal systems, though those exist too. The oth...
We live in a world that trusts the written word. If something is not recorded, documented, or archived, we tend to assume it is lost. The idea that knowledge...
The Mari Lwyd is a Welsh midwinter tradition in which a decorated horse skull, mounted on a pole, is carried door to door by a singing party. At each thresho...
Every mythology has its monsters. But the most interesting monsters are the ones that turn out to be human. The Gwylliaid Cochion Mawddwy, the Red Fairies of...
The realm of myths and legends breathes life into history, transforming ancient landscapes into settings for epic tales. From the prophecies of Merlin to the...
Imagine coming downstairs on a winter morning to find the bread already baked, the butter already churned, and the hearth already swept. The fire is lit. The...
There are stories in every mythology that reveal, more clearly than any historical document, what it actually felt like to be alive in a particular time and ...
Language is identity. Every community that has ever faced the erosion or loss of its mother tongue knows this truth in the most visceral possible way. Wales ...
We live in a world that treats landscape as backdrop. Mountains are scenery. Rivers are geography. Forests are resources or recreation. The natural world, fo...
Water has always been where the miraculous happens. Think about it. Every major religious tradition has its sacred waters. The Jordan River. The Ganges. The ...
There is something deeply satisfying about a world in which the invisible forces governing your domestic life are tiny, elegantly dressed, and absolutely unf...
Every mythology has its tricksters, its warriors, its tragic lovers and doomed heroes. Welsh mythology has all of these. But it also has something that most ...
There is a particular kind of surprise that comes from encountering, in the pages of a medieval manuscript, a woman who does exactly as she pleases. Not a wo...
Let me start with a correction. If you have ever read that Annwn, the Welsh Otherworld, is the Welsh equivalent of Hell, you have been misinformed. It is one...
Everyone thinks they know King Arthur. The sword in the stone. The Round Table. Guinevere and Lancelot. Merlin in his tower. Camelot gleaming on a hill. It i...
Here is a question that has fascinated me ever since I began researching Welsh mythology seriously. Why did Wales escape the witch trials? Not entirely, it i...
Let me ask you something. When you picture a fairy, what do you see? Chances are it involves wings. Probably a sparkle or two. Perhaps a tiny glowing figure ...
Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae transformed the "Matter of Britain" into a grand historical epic. Spanning two thousand years—from the mythi...
