Author name: Elizabeth

A knot makes a small promise: this will hold. A woven cloth makes another: separate threads can become something that […]

I was a child when I first saw images of The Lady and the Unicorn in an old art history

Reynard can make a reader enjoy a performance that ought to be distrusted. The fox’s ingenuity is entertaining; the injuries

A fox crosses a dream road. A dog refuses to follow you. A snake sits in the kitchen doing nothing

The serpent in Eden can be made to stand for almost anything if we detach it from the text being

Blodeuwedd is made to solve somebody else’s problem. Math and Gwydion fashion a woman from flowers so that Lleu can

The Owl of Minerva is an image of wisdom with a difficult question folded into it: when does understanding arrive?

Athena’s owl is both a religious association and a public image. On Athenian coinage, the goddess and bird become recognisable

A horse disappears. The neighbours call it a disaster. It returns with another horse, and they call it good fortune.