English folklore

My condolences to the children of Iceland. While many Christmas celebrations around the world are full of tidings of comfort, joy, and rampant consumerism, for young Icelanders it’s a time of terror, where you’re lucky to escape with your life… or a potato. At least, that seems to be the case according to this fascinatingly frightening folklore.Let’s begin with Grýla, a giant part-troll, part-animal creature who lives in the Dimmuburgir mountains and comes down at Christmas to look for naughty children to abduct. When she…

Image: Photograph by Aaron Epstein/HBO MaxHBO Max kicked off Pride Month by announcing a second season of Our Flag Means Death, a pirate workplace comedy that centers queer romance and characters. The renewal, announced via press release, comes in the wake of the show spending nearly 10 weeks on the top of the in-demand streaming charts. For a show with almost no marketing except word-of-mouth, that’s not bad.Our Flag Means Death is the brainchild of David Jenkins, who previously created 2016’s People of Earth. He found…