Myth and fairy tale salons

Myth & fairy tale salons

Aug 8, 2026

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5 min read

Why I'm escaping to the Middle Ages

... and an update on my series on British mythology for paid subscribers

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

May 31, 2026

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4 min read

Snow Queen

And how to reimagine a fairy tale

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

May 9, 2026

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1 min read

Fairy Tale Salon: The Snow Queen

Audio and video recordings from the session on Saturday May 23

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

How fairy tales help us to reimagine our lives

Apr 25, 2026

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5 min read

How fairy tales help us to reimagine our lives

Fairy tales matter because at the heart of every one of them is transformation.

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Apr 13, 2026

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1 min read

Myth & fairy tale salon: Tatterhood

Audio recording and video recordings

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

The fairy tale heroine and the Wild Girl archetype

Apr 11, 2026

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7 min read

The fairy tale heroine and the Wild Girl archetype

Yet another reason why women need fairy tales now

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Mar 21, 2026

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7 min read

What does it mean to live a good life?

(And can fairy tales help us find an answer?)

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Mar 9, 2026

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2 min read

Myth & Fairy Tale Salon: Lilith

Audio file and video recording

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Myth & Fairy Tale Salon: Branwen (The Mabinogion)

Feb 3, 2026

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2 min read

Myth & Fairy Tale Salon: Branwen (The Mabinogion)

Audio and Zoom recordings

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Jan 6, 2026

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1 min read

Myth & Fairy Tale Salon: Pandora

Audio and video recordings

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Nov 28, 2025

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1 min read

Fairy Tale Salon: the Witch

Video recording of the live gathering, Saturday November 29

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Nov 22, 2025

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8 min read

Uncovering the inner witch

Part two of three – including two more recorded tales, and one written

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Nov 15, 2025

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12 min read

What is a witch?

Part one of three – including two recorded tales

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Oct 25, 2025

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6 min read

Women who show us the way

Or: why the apparently passive women of European myth are actually quite powerful

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Myth & Fairy Tale Salon: Ceridwen and the Cauldron of Transformation

Oct 8, 2025

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1 min read

Myth & Fairy Tale Salon: Ceridwen and the Cauldron of Transformation

Audio story and video recording

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Fairy Tale Salon: The Stolen Bairn and the Sìdh

Sep 18, 2025

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1 min read

Fairy Tale Salon: The Stolen Bairn and the Sìdh

Audio of the story, and video recording of the Zoom session

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Sir Orfeo: bringing the stories together

Sep 5, 2025

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2 min read

Sir Orfeo: bringing the stories together

Myth Summer School week 7

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Aug 28, 2025

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1 min read

Orpheus and Eurydice (2)

Video recording of our live conversation at Myth Summer School

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Aug 23, 2025

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2 min read

Orpheus and Eurydice

Myth Summer School Week 5

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Aug 16, 2025

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1 min read

Gorlagon the Wolf-King (2)

Video recording of our live conversation at Myth Summer School

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Aug 9, 2025

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4 min read

Reimagining 'Gorlagon the Wolf-King'

Myth Summer School week 3

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Jul 19, 2025

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1 min read

The Wooing of Étaín (2)

Video recording and discussion thread

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Jul 12, 2025

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7 min read

The Wooing of Étaín

Myth Summer School Week 1

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Jul 5, 2025

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8 min read

Announcing Myth Summer School

Monthly newsletter, July 2025

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Fairy Tale Salon: Gilla of the Enchantments

Jun 10, 2025

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1 min read

Fairy Tale Salon: Gilla of the Enchantments

Saturday June 14: recordings

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Myth & Fairy Tale Salon: The Romance of Mis and Dubh Ruis

May 15, 2025

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1 min read

Myth & Fairy Tale Salon: The Romance of Mis and Dubh Ruis

Video and audio recordings

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Myth & Fairy Tale Salon: Blodeuwedd (The Mabinogion)

Mar 12, 2025

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1 min read

Myth & Fairy Tale Salon: Blodeuwedd (The Mabinogion)

Recordings

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Feb 22, 2025

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10 min read

The meaning of hospitality

Welcoming in the Other

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Myth & Fairy Tale Salon: The Lady of the Well (The Mabinogion)

Feb 10, 2025

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1 min read

Myth & Fairy Tale Salon: The Lady of the Well (The Mabinogion)

Audio and video recordings

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Jan 15, 2025

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1 min read

Fairy Tale Salon: The Maiden Tsar

Recordings

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Fairy Tale Salon: The King of Erin and the Queen of Lonesome Island

Nov 14, 2024

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1 min read

Fairy Tale Salon: The King of Erin and the Queen of Lonesome Island

Recordings

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Sep 19, 2024

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1 min read

Fairy Tale Salon: Maid Maleen

Recordings

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Aug 22, 2024

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1 min read

Fairy Tale Salon: Maria Wood

Recordings

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Fairy Tale Salon: The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces

Jul 18, 2024

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1 min read

Fairy Tale Salon: The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces

Recording

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

May 20, 2024

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1 min read

Fairy Tale Salon: Fitcher's Bird

Recording

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Apr 22, 2024

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1 min read

Fairy Tale Salon: The Buried Moon

RECORDING

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Mar 30, 2024

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12 min read

So what about the men?

A conversation about archetypes of the mature masculine

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Mar 18, 2024

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1 min read

Fairy Tale Salon: The Wild Swans

RECORDING

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Fairy Tale Salon: a gaggle of 'difficult' older women

Feb 21, 2024

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1 min read

Fairy Tale Salon: a gaggle of 'difficult' older women

Stories of midlife, menopause and elderhood

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Fairy Tale Salon: the Woman Who Became a Fox

Jan 25, 2024

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1 min read

Fairy Tale Salon: the Woman Who Became a Fox

Stories of midlife, menopause and elderhood

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

How myth and story can help us belong to our places

Jan 20, 2024

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10 min read

How myth and story can help us belong to our places

Re-enchanting the Earth

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

British myth and folk tales, women and the 'law of the land'

Jan 13, 2024

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10 min read

British myth and folk tales, women and the 'law of the land'

Changing the cultural mythology

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Nov 25, 2023

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2 min read

Fairy Tale Salon: Valemon the Bear King

Wild longings, and facing the Death-hag

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Fairy tale salon: Wild women and wolfskins

Oct 22, 2023

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5 min read

Fairy tale salon: Wild women and wolfskins

The Wild Woman archetype

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Oct 4, 2023

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3 min read

Positive images of the fairy-tale wolf

After my recent post about meeting wolves here in Cumbria, some of you asked me whether there were any examples of good wolves, rather than frightening predator wolves, in European folklore.

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Random thoughts about selkies and mermaids

Sep 23, 2023

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12 min read

Random thoughts about selkies and mermaids

Today is the autumn equinox here in England, and not surprisingly, I’m thinking again about balance, and about all the ways in which we can lose it.

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Sep 9, 2023

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1 min read

Fairy tale salon: The Fairy Mélusine

Wildness, secrets and women's mysteries

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Aug 20, 2023

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11 min read

Death in the European psyche

Representations of Death in myth and folklore

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

Jul 9, 2023

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24 min read

Greening the Hag

Ecological aspects of the Cailleach in Scottish and Irish folklore

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth & fairy tale salons

What are folk tales, and what are they for?

May 13, 2023

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17 min read

What are folk tales, and what are they for?

This rather lengthy article, based on an academic essay of mine, is intended to assuage the curiosity of those of you who wonder why so many folk tales around the world are so similar.

Dr Sharon Blackie

Myth and fairy tale salons

Why I'm escaping to the Middle Ages

Snow Queen

Fairy Tale Salon: The Snow Queen

How fairy tales help us to reimagine our lives

Myth & fairy tale salon: Tatterhood

The fairy tale heroine and the Wild Girl archetype

What does it mean to live a good life?

Myth & Fairy Tale Salon: Lilith

Myth & Fairy Tale Salon: Branwen (The Mabinogion)

Myth & Fairy Tale Salon: Pandora

Fairy Tale Salon: the Witch

Uncovering the inner witch

What is a witch?

Women who show us the way

Myth & Fairy Tale Salon: Ceridwen and the Cauldron of Transformation

Fairy Tale Salon: The Stolen Bairn and the Sìdh

Sir Orfeo: bringing the stories together

Orpheus and Eurydice (2)

Orpheus and Eurydice

Gorlagon the Wolf-King (2)

Reimagining 'Gorlagon the Wolf-King'

The Wooing of Étaín (2)

The Wooing of Étaín

Announcing Myth Summer School

Fairy Tale Salon: Gilla of the Enchantments

Myth & Fairy Tale Salon: The Romance of Mis and Dubh Ruis

Myth & Fairy Tale Salon: Blodeuwedd (The Mabinogion)

The meaning of hospitality

Myth & Fairy Tale Salon: The Lady of the Well (The Mabinogion)

Fairy Tale Salon: The Maiden Tsar

Fairy Tale Salon: The King of Erin and the Queen of Lonesome Island

Fairy Tale Salon: Maid Maleen

Fairy Tale Salon: Maria Wood

Fairy Tale Salon: The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces

Fairy Tale Salon: Fitcher's Bird

Fairy Tale Salon: The Buried Moon

So what about the men?

Fairy Tale Salon: The Wild Swans

Fairy Tale Salon: a gaggle of 'difficult' older women

Fairy Tale Salon: the Woman Who Became a Fox

How myth and story can help us belong to our places

British myth and folk tales, women and the 'law of the land'

Fairy Tale Salon: Valemon the Bear King

Fairy tale salon: Wild women and wolfskins

Positive images of the fairy-tale wolf

Random thoughts about selkies and mermaids

Fairy tale salon: The Fairy Mélusine

Death in the European psyche

Greening the Hag

What are folk tales, and what are they for?

THE ART OF ENCHANTMENT with Dr Sharon Blackie

THE ART OF ENCHANTMENT
with Dr Sharon Blackie