“they lay bare the hearts and minds of african peoples”

Whether vestiges of paganism survived Europe’s Christianisation is a subject of enduring fascination. Scholarly debate navigates between the ‘maximalist’ position (much survived) and the ‘minimalist’

Weather deities, magical portals, earth-moving giants and haunted valleys – Britain’s mountains are humming with myth, magic and mystery. Hanna Lindon explores upland legends from around the country

How Old Norse mythology endured in the Christian era

In the spookiest month of the year, let fairy tales, fantasy and folklore be your guide…

THE COUNTRY’S AFRO-BRAZILIAN CENTRE TELLS THE TALE OF AN ENSLAVED POPULATION’S STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL.

This is a history of margins and fringes – not only of the Atlantic Ocean itself, but also of the imaginations of those who worked on its surface and lived at its edges. In his new book, Karl Bell dra