After reading Alan Garner’s “The Owl Service” recently I went on to learn about the Welsh myth of Blodeuwedd. Then I went on a deep-dive into the folklore surrounding owls…
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The Crow King and the Tengu
Whilst I was halfway through writing a book of short stories (still a work in progress) about a particular character, “The Crow King” – a sort of minor bird-god – that I found out about the Tengu, and noticed a bizarre and uncanny resemblance. I thought I’d share my findings and how this serendipity occurred here.
The Stories We Tell Ourselves
Why do we tell stories and how are archetypes used in literature and marketing?
Where did Archetypes come from?
A further dive into what archetypes are and how the concept changed through history.
Nightwalks 