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The village of 'Dragley Beck', now part of Ulverston, is the birthplace of Sir John Barrow, English statesman, and one of the founders of the Royal Geographical Society. It gets it's name from the dragon that legend says, sleeps underneath it.

#FolkloreSunday #Cumbria

In the beginning there was only the Sun and the Earth, and the white reindeer created rivers from its veins, its fur became the forests, its antlers became the mountains

https://t.co/6NOzHShypO

#folkloresunday #animals #druids
art: Mary Evans

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.
#superstitionsat #faeries #cumbria
art: John Anster Fitzgerald

The natives of Renwick, Cumbria were once known as “bats” due to the monstrous creature that is said to have flown around their ruined church at night 🦇

#superstitionsat #cumbria
art: Matthew Starbuck

'Michael Scot, the Wizard' was born in the border regions of Scotland and northern England in 1175. He was a mathematician and scholar. His writings dealt with astrology, alchemy, and the occult sciences.

#wyrdwednesday #wizards #cumbria
Medicinal Alchemy 1512

A wildcat dwells in The Otherworld called ‘Little Cat’, it guards a vast treasure.
For a any would-be thief, Little Cat transforms into a flaming arrow, reducing said thief to ashes 🔥

#WyrdWednesday
art: Decadia

In Cumbrian dialect, 'black-kites' is bramble

"to mouse in the bramble patch:
come, let us dine on autumn fayre"
~ SGR

the first crop of juicy black fruit belongs to the faeries (and mice)

#fairytaletuesday #cumbria
art: Mary McAndrew

Giant's Cave, Penrith is associated with two giants called Tarquin and Isir who lived on a diet of human flesh. A practice which lost its appeal when Sir Lancelot slew Tarquin in battle.

#giants #folklore #cumbria

"derived from a circumstance which happened about 200 years ago, almost too ridiculous to be credited” ~ village of Renwick

a weasel is immune to the stare of a Cockatrice, but only the branch of a rowan tree can kill it!

#FaustianFriday #Cumbria

The September's edition of @CumbriaMagazine is out now

it includes my monthly article on Cumbrian folklore

this month, the dwarf in Cumbrian folklore

#folklore #writerscommunity
#magazine #LakeDistrict #Cumbria