Mainstream animation as we know it has always connected deeply to folklore and fairy tales. Disney’s early shorts and feature films adapted stories by the Brothers Grimm. Studio Ghibli drew ...

In Irish folklore and literature dating back to the 1500s, writers from the island nation have written about mythical beings known as “Fetches” that haunt people whose days are numbered. According to ...

It's one of the most enduring mysteries of Irish life, the contrast between our often epic landscape and the fairly homespun people you will often find living in the midst of it all. Places with ...

In this video, we explore the dark and fascinating world of Celtic folklore, diving into stories of terrifying creatures like Abhartach, the blood-drinking revenant believed to inspire vampire myths, ...

The Unreal screenwriter Rodney Lee tells us how one Irish legend, the Fetch, inspired him as he sat down to create Season 2 of the family ghost story - Sundays at 5.10pm on RTÉ One and streaming now ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

Folklore is a fully peer-reviewed international journal of folklore and folkloristics. It is one of the earliest English-language journals in the field of folkloristics, first published as The ...

“I had been curious about the Irish side of my biracial family heritage,” says Ken Yoshikawa, author of From a Hole in the Ground, debuting Sept. 27 at Northwest Children’s Theater. “So I leapt at the ...

“Irish Grief: Traditions, Myths, and Mourning Practices” will feature Jennifer Muldowney, an acclaimed author and expert in modern funeral planning, who will explore Ireland’s rich and fascinating ...

The University of Notre Dame’s football team “occupies a central place in the culture of American sport,” writes Jonathan Chait, a senior editor at the magazine, but the popularity of the Fighting ...

WHEN people think of Irish saints more often than not, they stir up images of the sort of religious imagery traditionally ...