It is widely celebrated across the globe, but as with any event of cultural significance, the solstice has accumulated many a myth and folktale over the years. So we're here to set the record ...

Oral and traditional story forms – from fable, myth, fairy tale and folk tale to religious parable – underwrote the nature and purpose of the short story from its earliest incarnations, offering ...

If you were to believe various myths and folktales, you’d find this solitary, territorial bird to be imbued with evil and supernatural powers. Welsh poet R. S. Thomas observed that there was ...