zteve t evans
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Writer on folklore, myths and legends
Ancient wisdom for a high-tech age
To distinguish gods from humanity, people endowed them with superhuman capabilities, including power over nature and the mortal world, magical abilities, and immortality, staging them alongside interesting human characters.
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To distinguish gods from humanity, people endowed them with superhuman capabilities, including power over nature and the mortal world, magical abilities, and immortality, staging them alongside interesting human characters.
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Ancient wisdom for a high-tech age - The American Mag
I have always been intrigued by how the ancients created their gods and goddesses to interact with humans and the natural world. The clever way they transformed their relationships and adventures…
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February 15, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Ancient wisdom for a high-tech age
To distinguish gods from humanity, people endowed them with superhuman capabilities, including power over nature and the mortal world, magical abilities, and immortality, staging them alongside interesting human characters.
buff.ly/oUkSF5S
To distinguish gods from humanity, people endowed them with superhuman capabilities, including power over nature and the mortal world, magical abilities, and immortality, staging them alongside interesting human characters.
buff.ly/oUkSF5S
Ancient wisdom for a high-tech age
To distinguish gods from humanity, people endowed them with superhuman capabilities, including power over nature and the mortal world, magical abilities, and immortality, staging them alongside interesting human characters.
buff.ly/oUkSF5S
To distinguish gods from humanity, people endowed them with superhuman capabilities, including power over nature and the mortal world, magical abilities, and immortality, staging them alongside interesting human characters.
buff.ly/oUkSF5S
Ancient wisdom for a high-tech age - The American Mag
I have always been intrigued by how the ancients created their gods and goddesses to interact with humans and the natural world. The clever way they transformed their relationships and adventures…
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February 15, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Ancient wisdom for a high-tech age
To distinguish gods from humanity, people endowed them with superhuman capabilities, including power over nature and the mortal world, magical abilities, and immortality, staging them alongside interesting human characters.
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To distinguish gods from humanity, people endowed them with superhuman capabilities, including power over nature and the mortal world, magical abilities, and immortality, staging them alongside interesting human characters.
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February 15, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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My New EBook is Available Today!
"Granny Magic Chocolates," by Nifty Buckles
Millie Butterbloom mends hearts in quiet Brindle with her granny’s enchanted truffles.
When a flashy rival appears, quiet mountain magic wins the day!
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"Granny Magic Chocolates," by Nifty Buckles
Millie Butterbloom mends hearts in quiet Brindle with her granny’s enchanted truffles.
When a flashy rival appears, quiet mountain magic wins the day!
Website: www.niftybucklesfolklore.fun
Payhip:
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February 3, 2026 at 10:23 PM
My New EBook is Available Today!
"Granny Magic Chocolates," by Nifty Buckles
Millie Butterbloom mends hearts in quiet Brindle with her granny’s enchanted truffles.
When a flashy rival appears, quiet mountain magic wins the day!
Website: www.niftybucklesfolklore.fun
Payhip:
payhip.com/b/qk7FL
"Granny Magic Chocolates," by Nifty Buckles
Millie Butterbloom mends hearts in quiet Brindle with her granny’s enchanted truffles.
When a flashy rival appears, quiet mountain magic wins the day!
Website: www.niftybucklesfolklore.fun
Payhip:
payhip.com/b/qk7FL
The Glastonbury Thorn
The Glastonbury Thorn
The history and legend of the Glastonbury Thorn
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December 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The Glastonbury Thorn
The evolution of Christmas
The evolution of Christmas
The origins and history of the modern Christmas
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December 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The evolution of Christmas
Breton Fairy Tales: The Secret of the Resurrection of La Rose
Breton Fairy Tales: The Secret of the Resurrection of La Rose
The story presented here is a retelling of a Breton folktale called The Magic Rose from Legends and Romance of Brittany by Lewis Spence (1) and tells the rather sombre tale of the transition throug…
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December 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Breton Fairy Tales: The Secret of the Resurrection of La Rose
Azorean Folktales: The Gift of Fruitful Words
Azorean Folktales: The Gift of Fruitful Words
A folktale from the Azores about unrequited love.
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December 2, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Azorean Folktales: The Gift of Fruitful Words
Hengist invited Vortigern to a lavish feast. As wine flowed, Rowena curtseying to Vortigern, offered a cup of wine saying, “Lauerd king wacht heil!” he replied “Drinc heil!.” This is how toasting began in Britain
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November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Hengist invited Vortigern to a lavish feast. As wine flowed, Rowena curtseying to Vortigern, offered a cup of wine saying, “Lauerd king wacht heil!” he replied “Drinc heil!.” This is how toasting began in Britain
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Beowulf: The Slaying of Grendel and the Water Witch
Beowulf: The Slaying of Grendel and the Water Witch
J. R. Skelton [Public domain] Beowulf was originally written in Anglo-Saxon times as a poem in Old English by an anonymous writer. It tells the story of its heroic protagonist, Beowulf, who e…
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November 25, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Beowulf: The Slaying of Grendel and the Water Witch
#FolkloreSunday Many chilling tales tell of the evil dead but there are some that tell of the grateful dead. These are the dead who return from the afterlife to help a living person who helped them after had they died. Can the living help the dead, the dead help the living? Read on -
Breton Folktales: The Grateful Dead and the Man of Honour
Breton folktales often have magical and supernatural elements interwoven with death and tragedy in the story line which creates a dark, sombre but compelling story. Death is ever present in the wor…
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November 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
#FolkloreSunday Many chilling tales tell of the evil dead but there are some that tell of the grateful dead. These are the dead who return from the afterlife to help a living person who helped them after had they died. Can the living help the dead, the dead help the living? Read on -
Petrification Myths: The Witch Dancer of Lengmoos
Petrification Myths: The Witch Dancer of Lengmoos
How an arrogant young man offended God and was punished for his offense by being turned to stone.
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November 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Petrification Myths: The Witch Dancer of Lengmoos
The Murderous Plot of Albina and her Sisters and the Origin of Albion
The Murderous Plot of Albina and her Sisters and the Origin of Albion
This is the medieval legend of how the island of Britain was once known as Albion after an exiled queen and how a race of giants was born.
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November 23, 2025 at 10:29 AM
The Murderous Plot of Albina and her Sisters and the Origin of Albion
#FolkloreSunday Many chilling tales tell of the evil dead but there are some that tell of the grateful dead. These are the dead who return from the afterlife to help a living person who helped them after had they died. Can the living help the dead, the dead help the living? Read on -
Breton Folktales: The Grateful Dead and the Man of Honour
Breton folktales often have magical and supernatural elements interwoven with death and tragedy in the story line which creates a dark, sombre but compelling story. Death is ever present in the wor…
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November 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
#FolkloreSunday Many chilling tales tell of the evil dead but there are some that tell of the grateful dead. These are the dead who return from the afterlife to help a living person who helped them after had they died. Can the living help the dead, the dead help the living? Read on -
Bengal Folktales: The Origin of Rubies
Bengal Folktales: The Origin of Rubies
Bengal Folktales Bengal is a region of the Indian subcontinent giving its name to the Bay of Bengal and the following story is a retelling of a folktale from that region. The story retold here is …
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November 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Bengal Folktales: The Origin of Rubies
Queen Mebd: Wolf-Queen – Goddess of Sovereignty
Queen Mebd: Wolf-Queen – Goddess of Sovereignty
In Irish mythology Queen Mebd is a colorful character – an archetypal warrior-queen, indeed, a wolf-queen, who was so beautiful men were robbed of two thirds of their valor.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Queen Mebd: Wolf-Queen – Goddess of Sovereignty
Founding Myths: Princess Scota, Goídel Glas and their Links to the Gaelic People
Founding Myths: Princess Scota, Goídel Glas and their Links to the Gaelic People
In the mythology and pseudo-history of Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man, Princess Scota and her husband Goídel Glas and their followers were the progenitors of the Gaelic people.
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November 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Founding Myths: Princess Scota, Goídel Glas and their Links to the Gaelic People
Cat Tales: Puss in Boots and the Marquis of Carabas
Cat Tales: Puss in Boots and the Marquis of Carabas
Some people believe cats to be superior beings who carefully train their humans to provide for their needs. This is about one such cat.
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November 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Cat Tales: Puss in Boots and the Marquis of Carabas
'To suffer the fate of the rye, in autumn you will be scattered, sown, lay under earth through dark winter days. In spring you will burst through the earth, grow, ripen in sunshine and rain. When ready you will be harvested.' buff.ly/7Y6SLRE
The Grateful Dead: The Three Pennies, John Barleycorn and the Fate of the Rye
Stories of The Grateful Dead which tell of the gratitude of a dead person to someone alive who has helped them to a proper burial are found in many parts of the world. Under the Aarne–Thompson–Ut…
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November 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
'To suffer the fate of the rye, in autumn you will be scattered, sown, lay under earth through dark winter days. In spring you will burst through the earth, grow, ripen in sunshine and rain. When ready you will be harvested.' buff.ly/7Y6SLRE
Medieval Lore: The Curious Myth of the Origin Barnacle Geese
Medieval Lore: The Curious Myth of the Origin Barnacle Geese
Barnacle geese are a migratory species of water bird that have a very weird myth of origin attached to them that was once widely believed. During the medieval period there was a belief that barnacl…
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November 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Medieval Lore: The Curious Myth of the Origin Barnacle Geese
Beowulf’s Last Battle: The Great Flame Dragon
Beowulf’s Last Battle: The Great Flame Dragon
Beowulf is an anonymously written long poem originally written in Old English, the language commonly spoken in England in Anglo-Saxon times. It is named after its protagonist, Beowulf, a warrior fr…
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November 4, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Beowulf’s Last Battle: The Great Flame Dragon
Japanese Folktales: The Legend of the Haunted Furisodé
Japanese Folktales: The Legend of the Haunted Furisodé
Museum of Fine Arts, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons FURISODÉ In his book of Japanese ghost stories, folk tales, and legends, “In Ghostly Japan,” Lafcadio Hearn tell…
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November 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Japanese Folktales: The Legend of the Haunted Furisodé
Ghostlore: The White Lady of Blenkinsopp Castle Legend
Ghostlore: The White Lady of Blenkinsopp Castle Legend
White Lady Ghost – AI image – zteve t evans Ghostlore In ghostlore, the supernatural phenomenon known as the “White Lady” is a type of unquiet female spirit, or ghost, usual…
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November 2, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Ghostlore: The White Lady of Blenkinsopp Castle Legend
Bats in Myth, Legend and Folklore from Around the World
Bats in Myth, Legend and Folklore from Around the World
Bats feature in many myths, legends and folklore from diverse cultures around the world, and are often associated with darkness, death and the supernatural. Presented here are different viewpoints …
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October 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Bats in Myth, Legend and Folklore from Around the World