Stephen G. Raeさんのイラストまとめ

In Cumbrian dialect, 'wiggen-tree' is the rowan tree. Plant a rowan tree in your garden to ward off evil influence, and provide a home for benevolent faeries

#faeries #trees #folklore #cumbria
art: Arthur Rackham

upon Helvellyn
lichen-covered
boulders beckon
winter's snow

#haiku (4-line) #bookwormsat
#mountains #lakedistrict

art: Fresh Snow on Helvellyn by Elijah Walton 1876

Cernunnos, the Horned God of Celtic mythology. The dualistic god of two-fold aspects: day and night, light and dark, summer and winter solstices; the god of wild places, animals, the Underworld.

#mythology #supernatural

#contemporaryart @StephenGeoRae

December's @CumbriaMagazine

We have a family tradition of telling ghost stories over the Festive period. I write about it's origin, the Banshee encounter, and tell a few Cumbrian folk tales also
https://t.co/t2GbnlIC9S

#folklorethursday #folklore #ghosts #ghoststories #cumbria

The 'Broon Man of the Moors and Mountains' is solitary dwarf who serves as the guardian of all wild animals. His dress is the colour of winter bracken and he sports red frizzled hair.
https://t.co/FmGSPy2FhX

#dwarf #folklore #cumbria
art: Amanda Moffet

Having a bad dream? A household Boggart will sneak into your bedroom at night and squeeze your big toe!
https://t.co/VuWsNHv4Wa

#wyrdwednesday #cumbria

December's @CumbriaMagazine

We have a family tradition of telling ghost stories over the Festive period. I write about it's origin - the Banshee encounter, and tell a few Cumbrian folk tales also

https://t.co/t2GbnlIC9S

#folkloresunday #ghosts #folklore #lakedistrict #cumbria

In Cumbrian dialect, 'hollin' is holly

During the winter months holly is brought into the home to protect it from malevolent faeries, or allow benevolent ones to shelter therein without friction with the human hosts

#folkloresunday #faeries #cumbria
art: John Anster Fitzgerald

'A large winged creature emerged from the ruin, they thought it was a cockatrice and fled in panic. But John Tallentire took a rowan branch, stabbed the creature through it’s heart, and killed it'.
~ the Cockatrice of Renwick

#folklore #cumbria

In Cumbrian dialect, 'hollin' is holly. During the winter months holly is brought into the home to protect it from malevolent faeries, or allow benevolent ones to shelter therein without friction with the human hosts.
#folklorethursday #winter #cumbria
art: John Anster Fitzgerald