Tag: tales

Fairy Tales and Holy Week ~ The Imaginative Conservative

During this Holy Week, perhaps we can pray that the uncanny pull so many feel toward the ever-after will lead to a deeper reflection on the paradises, earthly and heavenly, from which the fairy stories we enjoy get their point and purpose. One of my favorites passages in Dante’s Purgatorio is when Dante finally reaches […]

Notes from the sticks: Stoat tales

This is a repeat of a post which was first published on January 17, 2021. I AM not sure if I have ever seen a stoat. Since we have been in Lancashire I have glimpsed one or two animals which could have been stoats but at a distance they could equally have been weasels. Many people […]