About this mythology and folklore stories blog

Who writes here, how we research ancient myths, and what we're building.

A scholar's desk scattered with old books, ancient art references, and folklore research notes

Why we started

Storytellers drawn to the old tales

We kept swapping notes on the gods and heroes we were reading, then the folk tales, then the legends from every corner of the world. Eventually we stopped pretending it wasn't becoming something real. The first archive went to eleven readers.

A folklorist studying legendary stories by candlelight

How a story gets written

Research first, storytelling second

Every piece begins with the old book—primary sources, variant texts, the versions that survived. A claim about mythical creatures or legendary stories that cannot survive cross-checking with multiple traditions does not stay in.

How we work

Three rules we hold to

No invented detail

Nothing gets described unless we have read it in a legitimate source or encountered it in the folklore archive.

Tell what the scholars disagree on

The contradictions stay in. They are usually where the real story lives—where myths and legends branched, where different cultures shaped the same tale differently.

Corrections in the open

Errors get fixed on the page, with a note on what we learned and why we changed it.

Two pieces a month, nothing else

One long read exploring ancient myths or world mythology, one short note on a folk tale or Canadian legends, sent the morning they go live.

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