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Folklore

  • ‘Snow White’ & the Horror of Envy

    Welcome to day three of The Horror of Fairytales Week here at White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s post is what I am calling Snow White Sunday, as I am going to be examining the horror of envy in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs!   The story of Snow White is full…

  • What are Siren Saturdays?

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s post is about the concept of Siren Saturdays.   I have written several posts that fall into the Siren Saturday theme over the years, but I have never written about the theme as a concept.   I think that it is time to go…

  • Rusalka, Slavic Siren

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s Siren Saturday post is a look at Rusalka, the Watery Faery Woman of Slavic folklore, including tales from Russia and the Ukraine.   I want to note that the plural of Rusalka is Rusalki.   That being said, I will be referring to this…

  • ‘True Blood’ Maenad & ‘Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’ Pagans: A Magical Media Analysis of Folk Horror on Television

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s post is an examination of the Maenad storyline from True Blood, with The God Who Comes (Dionysus), and the Pagan storyline from Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, with the Green Man, and how they relate to Folk Horror!   In this Magical Media Analysis, I…

  • Sirens, Handmaidens of Persephone

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   Today’s blog post is about Sirens and how they are connected to the Greek Goddess Persephone!   It is well known to anyone familiar with the myth of Hades and Persephone that Persephone was in a field picking flowers with her Nymph Handmaidens when she…

  • Feminine Shapeshifters

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   This week’s Femme Fatale Friday post is about Feminine Shapeshifters and the power they hold to the Divine Feminine!   In each section below a type of Feminine Shapeshifter will be explored.   Without further ado, let’s look at Feminine Shapeshifters! SWAN MAIDENS ~The Swan…

  • Rabbits, Creatures of Springtime Folklore

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   Today’s post is about the folklore and magick of Rabbits, as well as why they are iconic creatures of Spring!   I will be going over aspects of Rabbits in folklore in separate sections to give a rounded view of why they are so linked…

  • ‘Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’, ‘The Hare Moon’: A Magical Media Analysis

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   Today’s post is a Full Moon Monday Magical Media Analysis of ‘The Hare Moon’ episode of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina!    I chose to do this post today because it is the Full Moon in Libra, or the first Full Moon when the Sun is…

  • Swans, Birds of Otherworldly Enchantment

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   Today’s post is about Swans and their significance in tales of the Otherworld.    The idea for this post came to me in a spark of Awen (Celtic concept of inspiration) when I was doing my morning yoga.    I was in pigeon pose, which…

  • Let’s Talk About Animism

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   For today’s post, I have decided to cover a subject I am quite shocked I have never actually written about specifically in its own devoted post over the last three-plus years of writing here.   That subject is Animism.   Now, I want to begin…