Folkrealm Studies
  • Folkrealm Studies
    • Eskimo Folktales: The Red Skeleton
    • Paiute Mythology: The Legend of the North Star
    • Scottish legends: The each-uisge
    • Scottish legends: The Cu Sith
    • The Last Song of Thomas the Rhymer
    • Legendary places: Dozmary Pool. Bodmin Moor, Cornwall
    • Chalice Well, Glastonbury, Somerset
    • Legendary places: Wishing Wells
    • Mystery, Murder and Magic at the Rollright Stones
    • Joseph of Arimathea
    • The Glastonbury Thorn
    • Victorian mysteries: Spring-heeled Jack
    • Brutus of Troy, first King of Britain
    • Beowulf - Hero of the age
    • The Mermaid of Blake Mere Pool, Staffordshire, England
    • A legend of the white hare
    • Sunken Bells: The Legend of the Kentsham Bell
    • Dartmoor folklore: Vixiana the Witch of Vixen Tor
    • Origins of the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival
    • Japanese folktales: The stonecutter
    • Japanese folktales: The Bamboo cutter and the Moon-child
    • Russian folktales: The Fool and the flying ship
    • European Folktales: The Hunter and the Swan Maiden
    • To love a Swan Maiden
    • The Swan Maiden's challenge
    • German Fairy Tales: The Six Swans
    • The Evolution of Christmas
    • Introduction to Chilote mytholgy
    • Chilote mythology: The Royal Family of the Sea
    • El Caleuche: The ghost ship of Chilote folklore
    • Supernatural beings in Chilote mythology
    • Corineus, first Duke of Cornwall
    • Cornish folklore
    • Cornish legends: The tasks of Jan Tregeagle
    • Jack the Giant-killer fights Cormoran the Giant
    • Cornish legends: The Mermaid of Zennor
    • Cornish Folklore: The Witch of Treva
    • Lost Worlds
    • Lost Worlds: The drowning of the city of Ys
    • Lost worlds: The town beneath Kenfig Pool
    • Lost worlds: The drowned Russian city of Kitezh
    • Lost worlds: Cantre’r Gwaelod of Wales
    • Lost worlds: El Dorado
    • Lost worlds: The sunken realm of Tyno Helig
    • Lost worlds: Semerwater
    • Lost worlds: The town beneath Lake Bala
    • Lost Worlds: The Hidden Cherokees of Pilot Mountain
    • Welsh mythology
    • Welsh legends: The Lady of Llyn y Fan Fach
    • Welsh legends: King March's ears
    • Welsh legends: The Afanc of the River Conwy
    • Welsh legends: The birth of Taliesin
    • The Legend of the Church of the White Stag
    • Welsh legends: Mereid of Cantre’r Gwaelod
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Lost Worlds

All around the globe legends abound of mythical cities, lands and islands that have been lost for some reason.  Some, such as the mythical cities of  El Dorado and Shambala are lost in jungles or impenetrable mountains.   Others such as Lyonness, Cantre'r Gwaelod, or Atlantis, were drowned by the seas.   Others such as Thule were rumored to exist on the edge of the ancient world their locations disputed, or like the legendary island of Antillia, also known as the Isle of Seven Cities, faded from view when approached by ships.  Still others just could not be rediscovered or were located in inaccessible places like Agartha said to be located at the Earth's core.
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Thule - Public Domain
 Their impact on local folklore and mythology has been immense despite hard evidence to prove their existence many legends have been spawned and their memories linger on.  Many people see these as nothing more than fanciful tales to tell the children.  Others think there may be older and deeper threads that run through the stories that connect people of the past to those of the present.  They believe that certain parts of the story may hold some truth.

These pages present some of the legends of lost worlds from around the British Isles along with some from other parts of the world.  Although we try and keep to known facts where possible it is the nature of legends, mythology and folklore for truth to be elusive.  Therefore, please enjoy the legends presented here and make up your own minds, bearing in mind that meaning is made up in the mind of the beholder.
                                              zteve t evans, 21st January, 2015 

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