9th June, 2022 in Folklore, Natural World
As River Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland is being published Lisa Schneidau reflects on the folk tales of Britain and Ireland’s freshwaters, and what these stories have to tell us about our relationship with rivers – past, present and future. What is a river? Is it a channel of…
30th September, 2020 in Folklore, Natural World
Listen to any good traditional storyteller and, sooner or later, you will find yourself walking into the woods. Woodlands are full of immediate life, colour, sound, scent, and danger, no matter what the season. They are worlds away from the barren, unforgiving desert, or farmland…
21st March, 2018 in Folklore
In a place called Mathavarn, in Llanwrin, there was a wood called Ffridd yr Ywen, the Forest of the Yew. It was said the Tylwyth Teg lived there….. When I first started out as a storyteller, I wanted to find stories that spoke of the plants and animals and character of the landsc…