Faeries can be encountered in your dreams.  Sometimes it’s just a make-believe story — a typical dream* — in which you’re remembering a tale heard long ago… except that you’re in it. The following article is from an answer to a reader’s question about some recurring dreams featuring frightening underwater creatures that seemed dangerous. In [...]

The history of dragons is not an easy subject. Frankly, dragons appear in earliest recorded history. Nobody ever thought about where they came from, just as few people research where frogs come from. They just are. However, there are few current stories about dragons, unless you include the Loch Ness Monster. Today, many people think [...]

Mermaids–and mermen–appear as consistently in history as faeries and dragons. Like their “mythological” counterparts, mermaids were considered real until the early 20th century. In fact, although we think of Disney’s Ariel when we hear the word “mermaids,” their actual history is ancient, well-founded, and–until recent years–treated as fact, not fantasy. In this article series, we [...]

Similar to people, merfolk come in different colors and different sizes. In one of the earliest written reports of modern times, the 1608 log of Henry Hudson described a mermaid on his second voyage. Two of his crewmen, Thomas Hilles and Robert Rayner, saw her at about 71 degrees north in the Barrents Sea, near [...]

The study of dragons is an immense subject, and could easily fill an encyclopedia. However, in the course of my research, I collected several bits of trivia which may interest dragon enthusiasts: For example, dragons provide significant words to our language, and tales to our folklore. Dragon terminology A female dragon is a dragoness, a [...]