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This week, perhaps, the last of our Cornish episodes. It’s the last of the material from Scilly and Its Legends by Henry Whitfeld. There’s an island called St Agnes and next to it is an area called “St Warna” but pronounced “Saint Waound”. It’s the home of a cult of wreckers, where it was considered…

This week a quick episode it contains a poem by Thomas Randolph (based on a translation from the Latin by Leigh Hunt) that was published in the Nineteenth Century. It could be a clue as to why your characters keep losing their Herbam vis sources. On LibriVox, where, Jason released this into the public domain,…

This is one of those occasions when followers of Games From Folktales just need to let me have my little enthusiasms. I was going to cut this piece out because it’s a comic aside, but it’s easy to ignore physical comedy in roleplaying games, so I hope you find it useful. The readeris Ed Humpel…

This week, Zoolvisia, which is an Armenian folk tale. The story is split into two distinct parts and the first half would be a great origin story for a covenant. The second half is a sort of jailbreak adventure story that the characters may take the role of the lead character in. Plot hooks will…

This week a little bit of folklore from the Rhineland. The rats that you’re about to encounter may, initially, seem like demons (particularly those who claim to mete out punishment for God) or angels. The interpretation I prefer is that they’re ghosts and that this is tiny version of the ghostly processions that we dealt…

This is an Armenian folktale, from a collection called “The Golden Maiden” by A G Seklemian. This story, and the one which will follow next week, are both possible starting points for a Spring covenant. This one is also of interest to us, because it suggests there is a political structure in the least-powerful tribe…

This week another of our episodes from Lord Dunsany’s Don Rodrigo: The Chronicles of Shadow Valley. In thisepisode Don Rodriguez and his servant Morano have been accepted as guests (and kind of captured) by a wizard who holds the Chair of Magic at the University of Sagossa, and he is almost forcing them through an…