From voyages to battles, gods to monsters, heroics to cowardice, the Viking sagas explore all of these themes in magnificent detail

Long before online influencers advised us all how to keep our pads clean and cosy, our forebears were passing down their own ‘handy’ hints on building a happy home – one free from witches, demons, and belligerent spirits!

Giles Catchpole on riverside ghosts

I’d brewed backyard potions as a girl. But my ancestors had more mystical plans in store for me.

IT’S TAKEN OVER 90 YEARS, BUT FINALLY HERE COMES , AS MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL GIVES NEW LIFE – AND A VOICE – TO ONE OF UNIVERSAL HORROR’S MOST ICONIC CREATIONS FOR A FEMINIST, PUNK ROCK TALE OF AMOUR FOU

Sai Baba, as long-term readers of FT may recall from previous coverage of the man and his miracles in these very pages (see FT276:28-29), was a fuzzy, Afro-headed, saffron-clad Indian guru with many m