Mythos

“Once a Selkie finds its skin again, neither chains of steel nor chains of love can keep her from the sea.” ― John Lynch

A lesser known fairytale, the legend of Mollie Whuppie tells the story of a young girl who escapes, outsmarts and steals from a giant.

We recount a legend of the Polynesian hero, Maui and how he caught to sun to slow its hurried rush across the sky.

“A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear from the injury of the oyster. " ― Stephan Hoeller

We explore the legend of how Anansi won all the stories of the world from the sky-god Nyame.

"And yet, it was still a performance. Odin and I both knew it. It was a kind of play, a dream of how things might have been." — J. Harris

We summarise a classical Greek tragedy, originally collected in Ovid's Metamorphoses, telling a tale of murder, betrayal and revenge.

“The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin

"Why shirts made of graveyard nettles by bleeding fingers and silence should disenchant men..." ― R. Stonlit

“What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished." ― Peter S. Beagle

"For fifty years she rocked that babe / It's said she rocks him still / A mother of a changeling child from 'neath the fairy hill" ― H. Dale

"Kelpies eat people. They may not play with their food as creatively as the Each Uisge, but dead is dead.” ― E.J. Stevens

"They say monsters can be beautiful too, and if that is the case then truly there was none more monstrous than he."

"Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his." ― W. H. Auden

"Fashion a man equal to Gilgamesh An untamed man to tame the tyrant An untaught man to teach him secrets." ― Jenny Lewis

"You carry both lightning and thunder / in that space between your bones and soul. / Become the storm you are hiding from" ― Nikita Gill

"Sirens lurk in the dark depths of the pupils as they lurk at the bottom of the sea, that I know for sure" – Jean Lorrain

“The cunning fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.” – Thomas Paine

“…but the moon was shining and to conceal her deed, she took a pail of pitch and began to tar the moon black.” – Emilie Demant Hatt

"Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together," - Plato