by Caroline Lawrence I have been obsessed with the ancient Graeco-Roman world for over forty years. I studied Greek and Latin at U.C....

by Caroline Lawrence I have been studying the remains and also the grave-goods of a 14-year-old girl from 3rd century Roman London as par...

'This is the art of Levitation... levitation... levitation...' Do these words seem familiar? This is the beginning of the ch...

'The Love Potion' by  Evelyn De Morgan (1855-1919) February is the month when supermarkets and florists try to make us fal...

So I’m cheating a bit this month. The Cabinet of Curiosities is supposed to be one object which I’d love to have for myself. However I c...

I love old dialect words and one of my favourites from the West Country is bless-vore meaning a spell or charm intended to do good. I ...

by Teresa Flavin If you search the internet for images of one of my favourite historical figures, magician Chung Ling Soo, you will ...

By Teresa Flavin Elizabeth Bird, who blogs for the excellent School Library Journal, recently wrote this entertaining post about the gr...