Monthly Archives: October 2018
TRIVIA TRAIL: FIRST NEW WORLD UNIVERSITY
Question: What was the first university in the New World? Answer: The Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, established in Hispaniola (now the Dominican Republic) on October 28th, 1638. http://www.famousdaily.com/history/worlds-first-university-founded.html
GUEST AUTHOR: MARVA DASEF ON VAMPIRE HUNTERS
HELSING AND LIEBCHEN You can’t have vampires without somebody thinking they need to be hunted. In Blood Ties Tested, the hunters consist of the team of Liebchen the Lundehund (no, really! it’s a real dog) and a descendant of Bram Stoker’s vampire hunter, Van Helsing. Helsing is a distant relative of the famous Van Helsing […]
GUEST AUTHOR: MARVA DASEF ON FAE CREATURES (II)
THE CAT FAIRY, CAIT SIDHE Sidhe (pronounced ‘shee’) literally means “people of the (fairy) hills”. It is the Gaelic name for the fairies in both Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland. Usually these fairies are attracted to those who are beautiful as well as wealthy. Many, many, many, many writers are in love with the […]
GUEST AUTHOR: MARVA DASEF ON FAE CREATURES (I)
Not all fairies come in human form. In Marva Dasef’s Scotch Broom (Book 3 of the Witches of Galdorheim series – free on Amazon starting tomorrow) young readers are introduced to some of the others. Researching Celtic mythology, I knew I wanted to use some of the lesser know magical creatures. I also decided […]
GUEST AUTHOR: MARVA DASEF ON SEA MONSTERS
Ceto nee Nessie In the second book of the Witches of Galdorheim series, our erstwhile heroine gets a little help from an unusual source. Did you ever wonder why there are so few sightings of the Loch Ness monster? Well, Nessie vacations on Ultima Thule, which may be the remnants of Atlantis. She’s not fond […]
HISTORY SHARE WEREWOLVES
Marva Dasef’s Bad Spelling characters also have dealings with werewolves. https://www.history.com/topics/folklore/history-of-the-werewolf-legend
GUEST AUTHOR: MARVA DASEF ON TROLLS
TROLLS Trolls. What do you imagine? Maybe something like the big uglies pictured here. In my Witches of Galdorheim series, I wanted a cave-dwelling bunch of uglies, but dwarves didn’t seem right for my book. Then I started hearing music inside my head. You know how that goes, right? It builds and builds until it […]
HISTORY-MAKING KIDS: THE MOUSEKETEERS
The original Mickey Mouse Club debuted on ABC on October 3rd, 1955, and ran until June 24th, 1959. (We didn’t have a television in 1955, but I watched devotedly once we did.) http://www.originalmmc.com/show2.html#merry
Time Travelling With Kids 