Myths, Fairytales and Legends

An over-excited jackdaw goes out of his league, and pays the price.

A jackdaw is a member of the crow family, with a little silver sheen to the back of its head. It is not one of the larger crows, but in this story, a jackdaw’s envy leads him to forget that.

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It’s hard when messed-up people treat you badly, but if you take it personally it only makes it worse.

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An affectionate father came up with an imaginative way to get his sons to work on the farm.

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Orpheus would lose his beloved wife Eurydice to death not once, but twice.

Orpheus was taught music, and given a marvellous lyre, by Apollo himself. He out-sang even the Sirens, and so brought Jason and the crew of the Argo to safety. But the love of his life was Eurydice, and he lost her - twice.

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A warning not to be forgetful of others, even in triumph.

King Minos of Crete reneged on a promise to sacrifice a white bull to Poseidon, and it went mad. Heracles captured it, but that was not the end of the story...

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Sending a hero off to ‘certain death’ never seems to work out...

The goddess Hera hated Heracles, so the ancient Greek myths tell, because he was one of the many love-children fathered by her consort Zeus, king of the gods of Olympus. But time after times, her efforts to destroy him were frustrated.

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