Saved by Margaret Leigh
Travel Light – Chapters One and Two | Small Beer Press
What if, in these dire times, something as seemingly pure as a fairy tale holds the very medicine we need to heal ourselves, our kin, and the world? What would happen if we dared speak these old stories aloud and let them live, let them teach us something new about what it means to be a wild woman, a good king, a witch, or a shapeshifter? What
... See moreDanielle Dulsky • The Night House: Folklore, Fairy Tales, Rites, and Magick for the Wise and Wild
Later, after our family was dispersed in all directions and my grandmother and I were living in that dugout hut on the other side of the Tumen River, she told me a story she’d heard long, long ago from her great-grandmother. It was the story of Princess Bari, whose name meant “Abandoned”. She would always finish the story by singing the last lines
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Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin
Tehanu was a beautiful story about power, magic, and generating our own freedom.
In this novel, Sparrowhawk has lost his power completely. He is ashamed and won’t even attend the crowning of Lebannen. He feels lost and unsure of what to do with his life now.
Tenar has never had “power” to the same extent as Sparrowhawk
... See moreLessons about ancestral healing and the shadows of the foremothers abound in the tale of Little Red Riding Hood, and the many stories of shapeshifting women and their wild skins have