This Christmas, many children welcomed a familiar visitor – a jolly man in a red suit and a sleigh full of gifts. But the ...

This video explores seven strange monsters from medieval belief. Creatures filled the margins of maps and manuscripts. They explained distant lands no one had seen. Religion and folklore shaped their ...

The first trailer for 'The Odyssey' proves that Nolan is fully embracing the mythological elements of Homer's epic poem.

So begins Icelandair’s alternative take on the Christmas ad from creative agency Hvíta Húsið. The spot puts the legendary Icelandic folklore character at the center of a darkly comic story about ...

To understand how we arrived at our current vision of elves, you have to rewind past Will Ferrell vehicles, Christmas ...

From shapeshifting horrors to water demons with a taste for blood, Celtic folklore is filled with monsters that make modern ...

In Eastern European folklore, a half-goat, half-demon figure who was the counterpart to Santa, was tasked with punishing naughty children.

Queer people have existed in folklore throughout history. Realizing that gives us magical powers, Sacha Coward says.

ASI's holiday exhibit celebrates Tomte, a creature in Swedish folklore, and his friends. Ingrid Nyholm-Lange discusses the ...

With illustrations by Lauren Bulter and a Shaetlan version translated by Christine De Luca, Wilder and the Nyuggel has a ...

We keep encountering the same myths. They surface in games and television, familiar figures, half-remembered creatures, names ...

The first edition, one of the first books of its kind, was published in 2018. Guan Shan Hai, with its wild imaginings, vivid colors and detailed depictions, won many fans, with nearly 10,000 users ...