Tag: History
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Valentine’s Day set to move
Talks are taking place with the board of the International Allocation and Reallocation of Important and Strategic Dates Consortium (IRIS, previously known as ROSE: the Reallocation Of Some Events group, and before that HYACINTH: Ha! Yet Another Card Initiative Now Thought Historic) for the date of St Valentine’s Day to be moved. St Valentine of…
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Aphorodíta of Phoenicia
Aphorodíta, Cast in marble Watches through the years Yearning, Waiting, For Phoenicia, Her land to reappear One Phoenician, Her Phoenician, Adonis, She waits for too But cast in marble She waits forever For that’s All she can do. Behind the marble The story’s different, They live on Forever more Even in the Underworld, even if…
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Left Hanging
I’m feeling a little like Mae West when she was left hanging off the Empire State Building. Well, she wasn’t actually hanging off of the building, he was. The big gorilla monster thingy that had hold of her. Was it Mae West? Fay Wray. I’m feeling like Fay Wray when she was left hanging off…
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Legends Always
Legends come in many different forms; some surprising, some poignant. Some mythical, some magical. And some heroes just by doing what they do. Diane writes about one such hero here. Whenever, wherever, and not only on November 11th, Remembrance Day, we should never forget.
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The Caipora, the Ciguapa and the Kalonoro
In South America, particularly Brazil, legends talk of the Caipora. A mythical being that is very mischievous, it sometimes becomes part fox and part human, and can have a large black mane. Folklore tells of the way the Caipora defend the jungle by causing all kinds of problems to those who show disrespect to the…
The Mansionic Perspective 
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