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In Summary: The Goose Girl
This strange Brothers Grimm tale features a mistreated princess, a kind king and most importantly, the skull of a talking horse.
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Georgia Garfield-White
- Aug 11
- 5 min
The King of Cats
"What ― Old Tom dead! then I'm the King o' the Cats!"
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Georgia Garfield-White
- Jul 14
- 3 min
In Summary: The Ballad of Tam Lin
A popular Scottish ballad, the legend of Tam Lin tells the story of Janet who must win her Love from the cunning fairy queen.
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Georgia Garfield-White
- Jun 16
- 2 min
In Summary: The First Tulips
Flowers are often born from tragedy, such was the case of the romance between Farhad and Shirin, whose doomed love birthed the first tulip.
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Georgia Garfield-White
- May 12
- 2 min
The Seal-Bride
“Once a Selkie finds its skin again, neither chains of steel nor chains of love can keep her from the sea.”
― John Lynch
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Georgia Garfield-White
- Apr 28
- 5 min
In Summary: Molly Whuppie and the Giant
A lesser known fairytale, the legend of Mollie Whuppie tells the story of a young girl who escapes, outsmarts and steals from a giant.
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Georgia Garfield-White
- Apr 7
- 3 min
In Summary: How Maui Caught the Sun
We recount a legend of the Polynesian hero, Maui and how he caught to sun to slow its hurried rush across the sky.
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Georgia Garfield-White
- Mar 17
- 4 min
Tamatori-Hime
“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
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Georgia Garfield-White
- Feb 24
- 3 min
In Summary: How Anansi won the World’s Stories
We explore the legend of how Anansi won all the stories of the world from the sky-god Nyame.
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Georgia Garfield-White
- Feb 3
- 4 min
Blood Brother
"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
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Georgia Garfield-White
- Jan 14
- 4 min
In Summary: The Swallow, the Hoopoe and the Nightingale
We summarise a classical Greek tragedy, originally collected in Ovid's Metamorphoses, telling a tale of murder, betrayal and revenge.
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Georgia Garfield-White
- Dec 9, 2021
- 7 min
White Scales and Red Roses
“The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin
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Georgia Garfield-White
- Nov 19, 2021
- 5 min
The Six Swans
"Why shirts made of graveyard nettles by bleeding fingers and silence should disenchant men..." ― R. Stonlit
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Georgia Garfield-White
- Oct 22, 2021
- 1 min
The Unicorn Woods
“What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished." ― Peter S. Beagle
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Georgia Garfield-White
- Oct 1, 2021
- 9 min
The Fairy Nurse
"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
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Georgia Garfield-White
- Sep 9, 2021
- 2 min
Each-Uisge
"Kelpies eat people. They may not play with their food as creatively as the Each Uisge, but dead is dead.” ― E.J. Stevens
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Georgia Garfield-White
- Aug 20, 2021
- 3 min
The Trials of Psyche
"They say monsters can be beautiful too, and if that is the case then truly there was none more monstrous than he."
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Georgia Garfield-White
- Jul 30, 2021
- 2 min
Narcissus
"Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his." ― W. H. Auden
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Georgia Garfield-White
- Jul 9, 2021
- 1 min
Gilgamesh and Enkidu
"Fashion a man equal to Gilgamesh
An untamed man to tame the tyrant
An untaught man to teach him secrets." ― Jenny Lewis
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Georgia Garfield-White
- Jun 17, 2021
- 3 min
Sedna and the Storm
"You carry both lightning and thunder /
in that space between your bones and soul. / Become the storm you are hiding from" ― Nikita Gill
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