It’s the March 2019 transcripts. These include supplementary statistics for creatures described in earlier episodes.
Pu: The Tiger of Chao-Cheng
This week we start a new series of posts by a particular author. For the last few years we’ve been doing the works of Lord Dunsany, which I hope eventually to collect together into a vast annotated omnibus. Since then we’ve had some M.R. James, some Benson but for the next six or seven months…
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Infernal Regio of Major Weir
This week, Major Weir’s Infernal regio in Edinburgh. LibriVox is a community group which records books that are in the public domain into the audio format. I believe this recording is by Colleen McMahon and I thank her for putting it in the public domain. It demonstrates something interesting about folk tales – things which…
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Chatelaines and toolbelts: On the feminine nature of tool belts in Mythic Europe
I started writing up a magus with a tool belt, and went back to look up their history. We’ve had one in a game supplement before, but it was disguised, because the wearer, like many at the time, was a woman. Western tool belts begin with female roman slaves. They carried a little tool pouch…
Read MoreSupplemental monsters March 2019
I’m trying to work through the backlog of monster statistics, so here are a batch for this month. Thanks to jason72 and Ignes Fesitvus for reminding me where these statistics were, and for the suggestion to use a mongoose as the base for ferret statistics. Srendi Vashtar – Tiny Faerie God Faerie Might: 5 (Animal)…
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From Outside The World
This is a story by Lucy Clifford which reminds me of a faerie, lacking a soul but having enough cognisance to know that she’s not fitting her role. *** She wandered about in the sunshine all the day long, over the fields and in the woods, picking the flowers and listening to the birds, and…
Read MoreFebruary 2019 transcripts
Here’s the link for the February 2018 transcripts. One episode went live early, so there’s an extra in there.
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The Priscillian Heresy and the Scilly Isles
Scilly was one of the last holdouts of the Priscillian heresy. It was linked to Manicheanism, sorcery and astrological demons. A covenant of Criamon astrologers disappeared from the islands after a great magical event. These things seem to be connected. Let’s look at the history of the heretical community. In this post, I’ll be using…
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The Pear Drum (The New Mother)
This is a traditional story, retold here by Lucy Clifford. It was a source for Neil Gaiman’s “Coraline”. It has two faeries contesting for a pair of feral children. The first mother has a series of prohibitions and she vanishes when they are broken, like a selkie wife, so the temptation to say she is…
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Dunsany short stories: The Worm and the Angel
The Worm and the Angel As he crawled from the tombs of the fallen a worm met with an angel. And together they looked upon the kings and kingdoms, and youths and maidens and the cities of men. They saw the old men heavy in their chairs and heard the children singing in the fields.…
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Games From Folktales 