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Love may be timeless, but the way we talk about it isn’t

Centuries before Christianity the Greeks had their own ideas about desire - Erotic love was not a pleasant diversion but a high-stakes trial to be survived, quivering with perilous energy

Spells, Invocations & Divination: The ancient history of magical Grimoires

The word 'grimoire' is believed to derive from the French word for 'grammar', the act of combining symbols to create sentences

The legendary powers of a Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

The seventh son must be preceded by six brothers, with no sisters born in between, and whose father is also such a seventh son

8 Bizarre folklore creatures that will keep you up at night

Don't look under your bed...

Female Phantoms of Stirling Castle: Ghostly encounters with a Handmaiden & her Queen (video)

According to locals raised on tales of Stirling since youth the castle is filled with female ghosts of all hues of the rainbow

Wild Men of the Ancient World: Legends across the Globe tell of a Humanoid Beast – Are they real?

Are myths only fiction or could they be a distorted form of history?

The Lost Continent of Kumari Kandam

The story of Kumari Kandam is not regarded as just a story

Beware of Tuesday 13th… A hellish, fearful, bad luck day for Greeks

Tuesday 13th is the Greek response to Friday 13th

The beautiful night custom of the “boats of whishes” in Drama (photos-video)

The custom takes place on the eve of the feast of the patron Saint Barbara

In 1982, 150 Icelanders went to the NATO base in Keflavík to look for endangered Elves

Kópavogur has remained one of the most prominent sites of stories about elves disrupting road-building