Story Setting: California in the year 2000

What I'm Looking For: I'm writing a scene where two characters are star gazing. One of the characters is British. My question is do constellations go by different names in the UK? For example Ursa Major which I've always heard, here in the USA, called Big Dipper, but I've read on several websites it is ( Read more... )

Right; this is my first post here and may be something of a long shot, but I figured I have nothing to lose in putting the question out there to you good folk ( Read more... )

(1) Could anyone point me to some sources to do with maternal infanticide in 19thc Wales and/or tell me whether they find my scenario plausible ( Read more... )

Hello. My thanks to chipmunk_planet for telling me about this community, and here is my first post ( Read more... )

Googled: modern British mythology, modern english mythology, modern indian mythology, british urban legends, english urban legends, indian urban legends, english fairy tales, british fairy tales, indian fairy tales

I'm looking for information on what urban and classic mythology my 1990's Manchester England street kid character might have run into, ( Read more... )

I'm doing a bit of research just now on a folk story from Lincolnshire, UK. It's called The Green Mist. Googling has turned up any number of retellings but what I really want to find out is if there are any equivalent stories from anywhere else in the world ( Read more... )