Image source, via Wikimedia Commons Hecate (or Hekate) is the Greek goddess most often associated with the crone.  Who was Hecate? Hecate...

As a storyteller, I share the stories of old. I especially like the tales in which the wise old woman/crone appears. I tell many of her...

There is a folktale collected by A.K. Ramanujan about a wise old woman.  This woman had cared for her family for many years. She lived in...

At the time when the Tuatha De Dannan (a supernatural race of people in Irish mythology) held the sovereignty of Ireland, there reigned...

In Japan, there are many folktales about the wise crone.  In one story, an old woman is taken away by her son.  He carries her on his...

One morning a little old woman got up and went to the field containing her five cows. She took from the earth a herb with five sprouts...

In this land, there once lived an old native woman. Some say she magically showed up the first day of summer and disappeared when the...