I can draw magical creatures

This chapter makes sense of Anne Conway’s account of humans’ free will and capacity to choose to sin given her commitment to the belief that creatures are naturally inclined toward...

Tira and Her Magical Marks Tira lives on a cozy farm, playing with cows, chickens, and sheep. She’s happy and free, until she starts school and notices white patches on her skin. ...

Glamour is an elusive aspect of cinematic style. This book critically examines previous scholarship on glamour; defines the concept as a compound of artifice, allure, and magic; an...

Abstract Otherworld offers a lively translation and retelling of little-known, anonymous stories composed over a thousand years ago in the monastic libraries of Irel...

This chapter locates Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures in the context of other New Zealand coming-of-age films by showing how it identifies the repressive effects of New Zealand p...

This one-volume encyclopedia introduces readers to the world's cryptids—those hidden or secret animals believed to exist at the margins of human society—including Bigfoot, Yeti, th...