19th January 2019

Four Mules Mentioned In Mythology

1. The mule of Zhang Guolao Zhang Guolao was one of the Eight Immortals – a group of legendary xian in Chinese mythology (xian means an enlightened person, someone who is...

5th October 2018

10 Images Of Mules In History

One of my favourite past-times involves combining my love of mules and history, and going in search of the role played by the humble longear in centuries gone by. For...

17th August 2018

Mules in the Assyrian Empire

A couple of months ago, a friend of mine shared some photos that she had taken during a visit to the British Museum in London. A large stone relief in...

20th August 2017

Mule Tales: Moti

A slightly different Mule Tale this week – the Brooke have kindly allowed me to reproduce this story of Muhammad and his mule Moti, who live in Pakistan. Life there is very...

23rd July 2017

5 Facts About Mules That You Might Not Know

1. Mules are intelligent, not stubborn. Ah yes, the big one! Mules have unfairly earned the description of “stubborn” due to their high intelligence and strong sense of self-preservation. If a...

30th October 2016

Top 5 Spooky Mule Tales

It’s fright night! I bet you thought I couldn’t combine Hallowe’en and mules, but it turns out that there are several mule-related monsters to be found around the world –...

9th October 2016

Mules in movies

Horses hold something of a monopoly when it comes to films about animals, but I was pleasantly surprised to discover that there are a few mule movies to be found...

7th August 2016

The Prophet and his Mule

Some time ago, back when I still used Tumblr, I stumbled across an otherwise mule-free poem that contained a line about “Duldul, Ali’s white mule”. Naturally this piqued my interest...