Free Fairy Encyclopedia and Other eBooks

 I've posted a number of ebooks online for Free and am going to post more as time goes on. "Fairy Encyclopedia"Many of the fairies and spirits mentioned within this book come from regions where information on the fairies isn’t readily available in English elsewhere. A few of these include; Mari-El – In the heart of an ancient forest which...

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Puck: Fairy Lore

by Ty Hulse I've posted a large encyclopedia of fairies on Google Books for free. "Fairy Encyclopedia" Today I would like to talk about Puck.You know the ruggedly handsome man who helped women with their chores and of whom they had many naughty stories. Or as Buccola put it, "Nothing pleases Puck more, Latham claims, than to make the morning fire, sweep the house, grind mustard and malt, draw water, and help the maids with...

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Gnome Mythology

I have a much longer article about the gnomes or zwerg as they are called in Germany in my discussion on Snow White.  Also, I answer some of the most common internet questions about gnomes at the end of this article.“Once a woman was suffering through a difficult labor alone, when the zwerg that lived underneath her home appeared and served as her midwife, easing her pain and helping her give birth.  (Franz Leibing, 1868)” This...

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10 More Things You Didn't Know About Vampires

By Ty Hulse"In Popeca, vampires are said to be at their worst before Easter"The blood drinking, milk curdling, lords of the dead who haunted the living in a terrifying parody of what people believed to be good and decent. It's important to remember that there isn't one type of vampire, but many regional variations. Irish vampires might ensnare...

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Goblins Mythology and Fairy Tales

The folkloric nature of goblin is so amorphous as to be impossible to pin down. This is because people began to use it in a fairly general way, to mean one of many different possible fairy creatures, but despite the often-frustrating ways which the English language often mixes words around there does seem to be a group of beings from which many of...

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Positive Psychology: Cute Art

By Ty HulseAvailable as a Shirt at my EtsyThe greatest value of art is in helping people emotionally and psychologically.   Although often derided by art critics as kitsch, cute works of art have power to change the way people think, feel and act, and most often for the better. Research into cute imagery by Steinnes, Blomster, et al. (2019)...

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