These names offer a window into Japanese folklore's spiritual and mysterious aspects, where darkness is feared and embraced as part of the natural cycle of life and the afterlife. Tuko.co.ke has ...

In the classic Parthenope myth, the siren whose voice brought sailors to their doom throws herself into the sea after Ulysses successfully resists her temptation. Her body is discovered on the ...

Or you might buy a cooking pot that screamed when you put it on the fire and revealed itself to be a tanuki (Japanese raccoon dog), badly burnt and probably dead. (Tanuki are rather inept shape ...

(AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] TOKYO (AP) — Japanese officials said senior Taliban representatives were in the capital for talks, ...

Alternatively, Japanese mythology developed independently of western mythology. The gods, figures, creatures, characters, and meanings are all unique to those that westerners are used to. The books ...

Based on a myth first told in Greece over 2,500 years ago, Hadestown is a modern retelling of the story of lovers Orpheus and Eurydice. In ancient Greece, Orpheus was considered the greatest of ...

For all his many faults, there is no one with a better track record of myth-busting. Take — as a recent and near-perfect example — his declaration that he foresees “a long-term ownership ...

Marie Benedict's latest novel, The Queens of Crime, transports readers to 1930s London,… ...