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Human Alchemy

Posted on October 19, 2022 by Nathan

The Hero’s Guide to Saving Your Kingdom, by Christopher Healy – This is an amusing take on well-known fairy tales focuses on what happens after the stories, and that it isn’t always just living happily ever after. The princes from Cinderella, … Continue reading →

Posted in Alchemy, Authors, Book Reviews, Fairy Tales, History, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Maps, Mathematics, Middle Ages, Monsters, Mythology, Nursery Rhymes, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Relationships, Religion, Russian, seanan mcguire, Theosophy | Tagged asphodel deborah baker, bards, christopher healy, cinderella, demons, doctrine of ethos, dwarves, fullmetal alchemist, giants, katherine arden, koschei the deathless, middlegame, morozko, over the garden wall, prince charming, pythagoras, rapunzel, sleeping beauty, snow white, the bear and the nightingale, the girl in the tower, the hero's guide to saving your kingdom, trolls, witches | Leave a comment

Yikes, Spikes!

Posted on May 20, 2020 by Nathan

I thought it might be worth looking at the Mario enemies known as Spikes, since they seem to be rather prominent nowadays. I’ve even seen them as stuffed animals at the Nintendo store in Manhattan, although I don’t have one … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Donkey Kong, Fairy Tales, Focus on the Foes, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Mythology, Norse, Russian, Toys, Video Games | Tagged clubbas, don bongo, donkey kong country, flails, gabon, giants, glitz pit, grubba, hammer brothers, klubbas, koschei the deathless, lakilester, lakitu, luigi mario, mace penguins, maces, magikoopas, mario mario, morning stars, new super mario bros., nintendo power, paper mario, paper mario: the thousand-year door, penguins, ptooies, snow spikes, spikes, stone spikes, super mario 3d world, super mario bros., super mario bros. 3, the blubbening, the giant who had no heart in his body, tubba blubba, turtles, weapons, yoshi's island, yoshi's story | Leave a comment

A Koschei Deal

Posted on August 8, 2018 by Nathan

Her Majesty’s Wizard, by Christopher Stasheff – I saw this book on a list of recommendations somewhere, and I didn’t realize at the time that the author had just died in June. This is the first book of the Wizard … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Catholicism, Christianity, Diana Wynne Jones, Fairy Tales, History, Magic, Mythology, Nursery Rhymes, october daye, Religion, Russian, seanan mcguire, Slavic | Tagged a wizard in rhyme, an artificial night, baba yaga, blind michael, buyan, catherynne valente, christopher stasheff, daniel horne, deathless, deep secret, divine right, dragons, fairies, fletcher pratt, harold shea, her majesty's wizard, herne the hunter, koschei the deathless, l. sprague de camp, luidaeg, marya morevna, matthew mantrell, princess alisande, russian revolution, satan, sorcerers, werewolves, wild hunt, witches, wizards, world war ii | 2 Comments

Less Deathless Than Advertised

Posted on September 17, 2012 by Nathan

An interesting character I came across recently is Koschei the Deathless, a supernatural villain from Slavic folklore. Despite his name, he can be killed, but it is by no means easy. In the paradoxical-sounding “The Death of Koschei the Deathless,”, … Continue reading →

Posted in Fairy Tales, Monsters, Mythology, Russian, Slavic | Tagged baba yaga, ivan tsarevich, koschei the deathless, marya morevna, the death of koschei the deathless | 5 Comments

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