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Shellycoat is a type of Brownie from Anglo-Scottish Borders folklore, that inhabits rivers and other water bodies. It's name, from the coat of shells it wears. It's relatively harmless unless humans trespass on it's territory

#swampsunday #folkloresunday
art: unknown

In the #folklore of the Anglo Scottish Borders, the "Broon Man of the Moors and Mountains" is solitary dwarf who serves as the guardian of wild animals. His dress is the colour of winter bracken and he sports red frizzled hair.

#wyrdwednesday #cumbria
art: Amanda Moffet

🎨 @TheLakeArtists exhibition at Grasmere starts today, and runs to 7 September

It includes my painting "may this universe not deceive you"; gouache and ink on paper

#contemporaryart #fineart #artists #exhibition #lakedistrict #cumbria

Druid Animal Lore - 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 🔥

#FaustianFriday #cats #druids
art: Decadia

A 'hob-thross' lived in Millom Castle. He slept by the fire during the day, and worked all night, doing the chores the humans didn’t want to do. One harsh winter he was offered clothes, a terrible insult to a hob-thross, so he left.

#folklorethursday #Cumbria
art: Eric Edwards

Village of Renwick in 1733 :

"derived from a circumstance which happened about 200 years ago, almost too ridiculous to be credited, an ancient possessor being said to have slain a noxious, cockatrice”

#wyrdwednesday #cumbria

Renwick in 1733, a Cockatrice took up residence in the ruined church. John Tallantine killed the creature using rowan tree branch, although some believe it can still be seen flying around the church at night.

#folklore #supernatural #Cumbria

Along Hardknott Pass, Cumbria’s Faerie King Eveling holds his court. He's an intriguing figure, his name may be connected to the Avalon of Athurian legend

#internationalfairyday
#folklorethursday #cumbria
La Mort d'Arthur by James Archer 1860

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.

#folkloresunday #folklore #cumbria
art: Arthur Rackham

If cattle are taken ill, they may be elf-struck, shot with a faerie arrow

According to Cumbrian folklorist Marjorie Rowling, elves got the arrows from faeries, who got them from mermaids

#faeries #elves #folklore #cumbria