Morgan le fay | Jo-Anne Blanco

Jo-Anne Blanco

Morgan le Fay and the Cat

Cath Palug or Kapalu, the giant cat that began its legendary life in early Welsh texts, became, eventually, a friend and ally of Morgan...

Jo-Anne Blanco

Defaming Morgan

Why was it deemed necessary – and why is it still deemed necessary – to demote, defame and demonise the all-powerful, magic-wielding...

Jo-Anne Blanco

Morgan as Queen of Avalon: Ruler in Her Own Right

The earliest portrayals of Morgan le Fay depict her as the ruler of a magical island, known as the Avalon, the Island of Apples. Here the...

Jo-Anne Blanco

Morgan le Fay as Leader

Powerful sorceress. Wicked witch. Benevolent enchantress. Evil crone. Immortal goddess. Demonic villain. Feminist icon. High Priestess....

Jo-Anne Blanco

My ideal Fata Morgana Cast

a huge film buff (I did a postgraduate Master of Philosophy in Film Studies), and I love to image who I would cast as the characters in...

Jo-Anne Blanco

#Folklore Thursday Igraine Part IIII

The beginning of the second novel of Stewart’s Merlin trilogy, The Hollow Hills, has a pregnant Ygraine, now Queen and married to Uther,...

Jo-Anne Blanco

The Giants of Cornwall: Cormoran and Cormelian

There are two Giants in Cornish folklore known as Cormoran. The first is the name of the Giant in the fairy tale “Jack the Giant Killer.”...

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