Folklore

She will marry the man who hides where she cannot find him. She has a glass that sees everywhere.

A king who kills a new wife every morning. A storyteller who has worked out that a story left unfinished at dawn buys her one more day.

A boy kills a hound and takes its place as guard dog. He is given a choice: a long life nobody remembers, or a short one they never stop singing about.

He has read every book of chivalry ever printed and concluded that the age of knights is not over, merely under-staffed. He is wrong about almost everything, and he goes anyway.

A mountain spirit who grants strength to those she favours and takes the voice of those who cross her.

Every person is born with one. She keeps the hours of your life and she does not explain them.

A nine-tongued serpent that holds back the rain until she is paid. Drought is a negotiation.

The castle walls fell every night until one wife agreed to be built into them, on one condition.

Her sister rules the world below. She is harder to reach, and far harder to keep.

Dancing spirits in the meadow at night. Do not join them, and do not name them.

She belongs to the spring and the running water. The village keeps the well clean for a reason.