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According to Tacunium Sanitatis, leeks stimulate urination and influence coitus 🤔
#FaustianFriday
🎨 from Tacunium of Vienna,

In a Greek #SnowWhite, Myrsina (Myrtle), gets directions from a 🌳

"A beech tree told her, 'Don't cry, dear lass, only let that breadring you are holding roll, and wherever it stops there shall you bide, without a fear in the world.' " 🍞

#WyrdWednesday
🗨️G. A. Megas
⬇️ Myrtle

In the darkness of their little room, he heard her recite a prayer of a kind he had not heard before. She turned around three times to her right, three times to her left. He dared to look and saw that she had become a coyote. 🐺
#FairyTaleTuesday

"Then she got scared and wanted to throw the red shoes away, but they stuck fast, and she flung off her stockings but the shoes had grown onto her feet. Dance she did and dance she must, over fields and meadows..." Possessed 👠👠
#FaustianFriday
🗨️H.C. Andersen
🎨 Adrienne Segur

In #WelshFolklore, rohs are vicious birds that devour humans by night. Their giant bodies are covered in scales; they only have feathers on their wings. They are likely associated with the Middle Eastern roc.
#FairytaleTuesday
🎨E. J. Detmold

The perilous red shoes that won't stop dancing 👠
#FolkloreSunday
🎨Adrien Segur for H.C. Andersen's fairy tale.

Lentil soup is a great motivator in Mediterranean folktales. In a #GreekFolktale a prince is cursed when he kicks over some soup 🍲

"Oh dearie me! As I have yearned seven years for lentil soup, so you may yearn for Anthousa the fair with the golden hair!"
#FairytaleTuesday

Emily Dickinson on bats 🦇#BatAppreciationDay
🎨Charles d'Orbigny

In a #JapaneseFolktale, a monk manages to bring the statue of Kichijōten (goddess of beauty) to life by fondling it. They marry. The union is dissolved with a shocking twist after the monk cheats on his heavenly wife.
#FolkloreSunday

Quote: Japanese Tales, R. Tyler, ed.

She has more hair than she needs;
In the sun 'tis woe to me!
And her voice is a string of colored beads,
Or steps leading into the sea.
--from Witch-Wife by Edna St.Vincent Millay

#FolkloreSunday
🎨 Arthur Rackham