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WOLFBANE 'Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms & the autumn moon is bright'
Faux ballad from the film that created the folklore that the sign of the #werewolf is a ‘pentacle’, The Wolfman, 1941#FolkloreThursday

BECOMING A FEMALE WEREWOLF It is believed that when SEVEN girls succeed one another in one family that among them one is of necessity a WEREWOLF Sabine Baring-Gould, 1865 🎨Nagi Noda #FairyTaleTuesday

LIBAN The #mermaid who became a saint. Caught in a net, Liban was given a choice, to be baptized and go to heaven within an hour, or to wait 300 years on earth. She chose death, miracles were wrought through her & she became St. Muirgen of Donegal #FolkloreThursday 🎨C. Smithers

POLITICAL VAMPIRE BATS The vampire bat of capitalism attacks the people whilst the angel of socialism looks on, Walter Crane, 1885; The Irish National League is re-imagined as an Aisling figure defending Ireland from the vampirism of the British empire, 1885 #WyrdWednesday

DAISIES The habit of dressing children in daisy chains and coronels comes from a desire to protect them against malevolent FAIRIES. Daisies are a sun symbol and therefore protective magic🎨Rackham #GothicSpring

ROWAN TREE The Tree which above all others offers protection against #fairy enchantments and #witchcraft; specially effective is a staff or cross made of Rowan. Images: Paul Wood Roffe, 1905; Arthur Rackham #BotanicalGothic

WEREWOLF WARNING The #Supermoon will bring increased activity from #werewolves. Compelled to leave their hunting grounds in the woods, they will make their way to open fields to prowl & howl at the moon @OGOMProject

DARK PINOCCHIO is set alight, enslaved to a puppet master, lynched by ruffians, swallowed by a fish & plunged alive into a pot before becoming A REAL BOY
Images Folkyard from my treasured 1914 Dent edition #FairyTaleTuesday

BREENA In Celtic lore the word 'breena' (Gaelic) means FAIRYLAND. Humans discover Fairyland in images by watercolour artist Henry Meynell Rheam (1859–1920) #mythologymonday

Those who visit ELFLAND are subject to a distorted sense of time, what may seem like seconds is later revealed to have been hours, weeks or years. Once a mortal leaves ELFLAND time catches up with them, aging them, even if they are to turn to dust #WyrdWednesday Fitzgerald image