This is a great post, readers! I highly recommend it – as well as Voyage Comics and Publishing’s The Book of Saints and Heroes by Andrew Lang.* You can buy that book through the affiliate link for Voyage Comics and Publishing, too, or ask your local library to purchase a copy. It’s a good book!
Enjoy, readers!
Saints and Fairies
The fairies were of the Old Profession;
Their songs were Ave-Maries;
Their dances were procession.
But now, alas, they are all dead;
Or gone beyond the seas;
Or farther for religion fled,
Or else they take their ease.
—Richard Corbet
In the winter, the long, dark nights leave plenty of time for storytelling. In our family, we like to read aloud at night. Sometimes we pull out a board game and play while the snow falls outside and the fire crackles in the woodstove. Other times, we all settle down with tea while my husband or I pull out a book to read out loud.
Storytelling is a natural part of human society. We like to hear stories, tell stories, and imagine stories. Often, we like to expand on what we’ve seen or heard of to create something new and different. Maybe this is how stories of unicorns, phoenixes, dragons, and other creatures came to be; or maybe the stories are real and we are just too disconnected from our natural world to meet these creatures anymore.
A Song of Joy by Caroline Furlong 
On St. Anthony and the satyr, while there are plenty of stories about the dangers of eating within the Hollow Hills, there are no stories about the dangers of sharing food with satyrs. (There might be stories about dangers involving women sharing drinks with satyrs). :wink:
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