Alphabet Lore refers to a series of web videos produced by Mike Salcedo in 2022. The series revolves around the twenty-six letters in the Latin alphabet and their interactions with one another. There ...

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From the booze-guzzling clurichaun to the bloodsucking Abhartach, these Irish folklore creatures paint a fascinating picture of pre-Christian mythology in Ireland. The folklore of Ireland is filled ...

Irish folklore is ripe with different games ... Twenty-six small pieces of paper with the letters of the alphabet written on them would be dropped into a bucket of water and left overnight ...

Like many other Irish folklore creatures, the púca — also spelled pooka, pwca, phouka, or puck — is quite unpredictable. By turns benevolent and malevolent, the púca is a shapeshifter capable of ...

Following the death of his only son, a grieving father is haunted by a terrifying demon known in Irish folklore as the Fetch. A fetch is a supernatural double or an apparition of a living person.

In Irish folklore and literature dating back to the 1500s, writers from the island nation have written about mythical beings known as “Fetches” that haunt people whose days are numbered.

A far cry from the grinning pumpkins of Halloween today, the original folklore version of Jack-o-Lanterns, named for Jack O’Lantern of the Irish myth, were actually quite terrifying. They were ...

J.J. Watt transitions from NFL stardom to sports ownership with his investment in Burnley FC, tackling a new passion project with wife Kealia. The legendary goalkeeper who won five LaLiga titles ...

Thanks to Irish folklore being heavily linked with riches and luck, it’s just about the perfect theme for slot machines. From leprechauns to pots of gold and shamrocks, all the iconography of ...

Historian and co-founder of the highly-regarded Irish Life and Lore oral history archive and podcast, ­Maurice O’Keeffe has died at the age of 75 years. A proud ­Kerryman, he was born in ...

The longest word in modern Irish, I’m told – or at least the ... a joint Glasgow-Maynooth research project on the old ogham alphabet, the painting develops a theme from the Book of Ballymote ...