Leanan Sidhe: the muse that feeds on poets. Since time immemorial the poet has attributed his inspiration, or the absolute lack thereof, to the Muses; those mythological divinities in charge of inflaming the creativity of human beings in all branches of art. As a general rule, the Muses do not respond to just anyone’s call; no matter how energetic or ...

“The Dogs of Tindalos”: Frank Belknap Long; story and analysis. The dogs of Tindalos (The Hounds of Tindalos)—also published as The Hounds of Tindalos— is a horror story by American writer Frank Belknap Long (1901-1994), originally published in the March 1929 issue of Weird Tales magazine, and later republished by Arkham House in the 1946 anthology: The Hounds of Tindalos ...

We also know that the Ent-Women, unlike the Ents, interacted with the race of Men and taught them much about the art of agriculture. They apparently lived in peace until Sauron destroyed their gardens, after which they disappeared. The Ents searched for them but never found them. The Elves, moved, created songs about the day when the Ents and the ...

Great classical French poets. The great classical French poems occupy a prominent role in the history of poetry, both as precursors of romanticism, decadence, surrealism, cursed poetry, among other equally important movements. In this section of We will cover the great French poets of the classical period, as well as some of the best love poems in French and Spanish. ...

“Berenice”: Edgar Allan Poe; story and analysis. Berenice (Berenice) is a horror story by the American writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), published in 1835 in the magazine Southern Literary Messenger. Berenice continues the tradition of the Gothic genre, making it one of the few Gothic stories related to vampirism from that notable period of North American literature. The violence that ...

“The great red dragon and the woman clothed with the sun”: William Blake; painting and analysis. The Great Red Dragon (The Great Red Dragon) is a series of paintings by the English painter and poet William Blake (1757-1827), created between 1805 and 1810 to illuminate some passages from the Book of Revelations that mention this unique creature: And behold the ...

“The sale of cats”: Gustavo Adolfo Becquer; story and analysis. The sale of cats (The Sale of Cats) is a fantastic story by the Spanish writer Gustavo Adolfo Becquer (1836-1870), originally published in the newspaper El Contemporaneous, in November 1862, and then republished in the 1871 anthology: Leyendas. The sale of catsone of Gustavo Adolfo Becquer’s great stories, develops two ...

Perisas: the fairies of death. The Perisas They belong to a species of fairies that emerged during the cultural heyday of Zoroastrianism, related to the repugnant Towers of Silence, where the corpses of the executed slowly decomposed in the open air. Let us remember that Zoroastrianism considers the human corpse as an impure object, which is why it is prohibited ...

Barbarian Names are used in the field of occultism and esotericism to describe a meaningless word used in magical rituals. The term “barbarian,” of course, comes from the Greek barbaroi, which basically designated foreigners, whose languages ​​sounded to the Greeks like inarticulate babbling. In occultism, however, many Barbarian Names are of Egyptian origin, although there are also others, especially Hebrew ...

“La Belle Dame sans Merci”: John Keats; poem and analysis. La Belle Dame sans Merci -in Spanish: The beautiful lady without mercy— is a love poem by the English writer John Keats (1795-1821), composed in 1819; a dark period in the poet’s life, where illness, depression, and a conflictive relationship with the woman of his life, Fanny Brawne, were transferred ...