Sylvia Rose
Cleopatra the Alchemist of Alexandria
Cleopatra the Alchemist is an intriguing figure in the hazy history of science and magic. She works and writes in the 3rd or 4th...
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Sylvia Rose
Oct 10, 20236 min read
Women of the Wild Hunt: Holle, Diana, Frigg
A European phenomenon, the Wild Hunt is a supernatural event crossing several cultures including German, Norse, Roman, French, English...
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Sylvia Rose
Oct 9, 20234 min read
Pagan Christmas Yule Fests: Frau Holle
The Festival of Frau Holle decks the halls from her Feast Day 25 Dec to the 5-6th of January. An ancient German goddess, Frau Holle...
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Sylvia Rose
Oct 2, 20235 min read
Elderberry Tree: Germanic Nature Lore
If drinking elderberry wine or tea, one might see pixies. Early Germans are animists. Spirits or spirit energies inhabit all living...
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Sylvia Rose
Sep 28, 20237 min read
Hags in Germanic Myth & Folklore
Hags in folklore are old women associated with magic. They can be witches, demons, queens, crones or nature spirits, kindly or hateful....
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Sylvia Rose
Sep 14, 20236 min read
Reiker For Hire, Victorian Era & Nixies
Magic, mystery and sinister plots unfold as the Victorian era infuses European politics and society. Queen Victoria is a German princess...
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Sylvia Rose
Sep 9, 20236 min read
Great Women Artists - Käthe Kollwitz
Käthe Kollwitz (1867 - 1945) is a stellar German artist. A doctor's wife among the less privileged of society, she works with her husband...
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Sylvia Rose
Aug 24, 20236 min read
Victorian Trends: Sailor Suits to Taxidermy
Trends in natural health, exercise, pets, fashion, the occult, mourning and taxidermy span the nineteenth century. On the British throne,...
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Sylvia Rose
Aug 1, 20234 min read
Great 19th Century German Woman Artists
Women artists of the late nineteenth century include Elisabet Ney, Anna Peters and Dora Hitz. In the youthful German Empire women's...
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Sylvia Rose
Jul 13, 20234 min read
Four Early German Inventions We Still Love Today
Coffee filters, gummi bears, guide dog school and refrigeration are among the German inventions of the 19th and early 20th centuries,...
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Sylvia Rose
Jun 9, 20234 min read
19th Century: Home Gym, Bicycles, Antiseptic
The home gym, antiseptic, bicycles and Bunsen burners all emerge in the 19th century . European engineers, scientists, physicians and...
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Sylvia Rose
May 31, 20233 min read
Off to the Black Forest we go!
The Black Forest ( Ger. Schwarzwald ) in southwest Germany is treasured for its unsurpassed natural beauty. Two major rivers begin in...
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Sylvia Rose
May 28, 20234 min read
The Many Faces of Frau Holle
Frau Holle is an ancient Goddess originating in the pagan lore of Germania. Also called Holda, Hulda or Old Mother Frost, she's often...
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Sylvia Rose
May 20, 20235 min read
Song of the Loreley - Lethal Attraction
Loreley (Lorelei) is a rock inhabited by a spirit of the same name. At the narrowest part of the Rhine River, Germany, the beauty and...
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Sylvia Rose
May 19, 20233 min read
Pioneering German Women - Bertha Benz
In August 1888, Bertha Benz of Mannheim, Germany loads her kids into a revolutionary vehicle and heads for Pforzheim. She drives the Benz...
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Sylvia Rose
May 17, 20233 min read
3 Great German Artists for Art Lovers
Here are three amazing German artists everyone should know. Franz Marc is a founder of German expressionism. Käthe Kollwitz depicts war...
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Sylvia Rose
May 8, 20234 min read
The Anxious Victorian - Mental Health
The Victorian era brings progress to Europe, but also problems. Increased pace of life leads to stress conditions such as neurasthenia ,...
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Sylvia Rose
May 7, 20234 min read
Frau Holle - A German Fairy Tale
A mother, her daughter Hilda and stepdaughter Elsa live in a house in the woods. Elsa does all the work as the other two are lazy, but...
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Sylvia Rose
Apr 17, 20233 min read
Wild Women and Winter Tales
December 25 marks the Feast of Frau Holle or Hulda in Germany. She's also celebrated at the Winter Solstice as a goddess of Light. Her...
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Sylvia Rose
Apr 12, 20234 min read
Queen Eleanor & the Calamitous Crusade
The final novella of the Lora Ley - Winter Tales has a time travel twist and takes us to the Germania of 1148 AD. The Feast of Fools ...
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