holyschist: Image of a medieval crocodile from Herodotus, eating a person, with the caption "om nom nom" (Default)
holyschist ([personal profile] holyschist) wrote in [personal profile] starlady 2010-06-04 01:16 am (UTC)

I flipped through this in the book store, and OMG I am so looking forward to reading it.

(I have been thinking lately about how all kinds of stories from all over the world get labeled "fairy" stories and the beings in them "fairies", and I think I am inclined to think we shouldn't look for an umbrella term, particularly one from Western mythology.)

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