Beauty and the Beast - a symbol that can be found again and again in the history of mythology. In Greek mythology the infinitely beautiful human princess Psyche is married to a demon at the behest of the oracle of Delphi. Her father sends her to the top of a mountain where the demon is already on [...]

They race restlessly and nimbly over trunks, over meadows and through tree tops. They collect, they hoard and are constantly on the lookout: squirrels. “Squirrels, whose original name was actually: Those who shade themselves with their tails”, and whose name only became a squirrel through a misunderstanding, are lovable little companions that you can meet everywhere. The Squirrel […]

In ancient times, people believed that every element and every movement of nature and man was determined by little demons because they could not imagine the physical processes to which their life was subjected. These demons were not all of an evil nature, some were quite friendly to people. They appeared in many cultures and [...]

The Necronomicon (Greek: nekros νεκρός - the image of the law of the dead) was written by the half-mad Arab Abdul Alhazred and was actually called عزيف الجن (Al Azif), which is translated as the eerie whisper of a jinn coming from the vastness of the desert can. The cause of this noise is probably the phenomenon of the "singing sand". Author […]

The satyr is a hybrid being and demon of Greek mythology. He has similarities with the god Pan and the god Priapus. Dionysus is considered the father of the satyr. He is not a god in the sense of a radiant, flawless and exalted entity. It is a very worldly, hedonistic figure. But where the father can still [...]