Landscape and Memories – The Tale of the Three Sisters

*This week's blog post mainly focuses on the mythology of a landscape as opposed to movement and utility. Here is a quick rendition of the Three Sister's myth, mainly sourced from midwalesmyway.com. Mythology plays a large part in describing the development of the landscape for many cultures around the world. In Wales, the myth of...

Landscapes and Memories – Inuksuit

An inukshuk is a marker with great historical heritage, appropriated into a fad amongst amateur hikers and tourists. I often see them in the United States on trails, or in locations where there is a large quarry of flat rocks along popular routes. I have even seen them as part of an installation in someone’s...

If you see her, you must never tell: Ghost stories and folk legends from rural Belize

In the summer of 2013, I was fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to conduct ethnographic research as an undergraduate student with sugar cane farming communities in Belize. With a sense of wild excitement, I set off for the Maya heartland which I had spent so much time reading about. I was expecting to...

Don’t go in the Water – A Quick Review of Northwestern European Folklore

Ever fear what lurks in the water as you wade out to the ocean? What dwells in the depths? The innate fear one feels when they can’t see their toes? Or when the fog becomes too thick to see the coastline? Fear of water is a primal feeling, one with good cause. Water can wash...