I thought nixies would be more commonplace. I was pretty confident they’d be one of the folk monsters now employed by genre fantasy, and that the internet would be crawling with very dramatic pictures of them battling heroes and whatnot. But try typing nixie into Google Images and see what you get. Nixies, as I …
Check this out… sound familiar? Once upon a time there was a mummy bear, a daddy bear and a baby bear, right? Not really. Once upon a time there was a fox… I’ve never really been a fan of Goldilocks. It always seemed as sickly as Mummy Bear’s porridge. Goldilocks herself was the problem. She …
I heard somewhere (although I can’t vouch for whether it’s true) that The Juniper Tree is the story most often omitted or edited from collected editions of the Brothers Grimm on grounds of taste. If anybody wanted to argue that fairy tales aren’t suitable reading material for young children, they might well point to this …
I thought it would be fun to start an occasional series of blog posts about some of my favourite fairy stories and folk tales. I’ll find a link to somewhere you can read a particular story online, write up a few thoughts and post some drawings to go with it. When I’ve done enough, and if I …