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FENRIR & THE MOON The most infamous of the many #wolves in Norse mythology, Fenrir is the son of the god Loki and the giantess Angrboda. It is Fenrir who, in addition to killing Odin & destroying much of the world, will eat the sun and the moon during Ragnarok #FolkloreThursday

APPLE In English lore is associated with enchantment. King Arthur on being wounded was spirited away by 3 #fairy queens to the magical place of AVALON, or Appleland, ruled by bewitching Morgan Le Fay; some say the apple's core is a pentacle #FairyTaleTuesday

FAE FASHION Queen Mab is usually pictured in white as if dressed for the bridal, inspired by Shelley's Queen Mab poem, 1813 & Drayton's Nimphidia, 1627 🎨Maybank, 1906, Smedberg, 1907; Henry Meynell Rheam, 1908 #FolkloreThursday #GothicSpring @LancasterGothic

TWO-FACED DEVILS The devil is literally two-faced in many medieval depictions, such as Giovanni da Modena, The Inferno, c.1410 & Hell, Hans Memling c.1485. Devils are sinners who face downwards & Demonic bodies are often disordered with faces at the top & bottom #WyrdWednesday

SWAN PRINCESS & BIRD MAIDEN from Russian artist Sergey Sergeyevich Solomko (1867-1928). His fairy tale painting is of Mary the Swan Princess; he merges the blue bird, a symbol of happiness with the swan princess to create his Bluebird Maiden #GothicSpring

TITANIA iconic images of Vivien Leigh as Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Old Vic Theatre, 1937 directed by Tyrone Guthrie & set to Mendelssohn. I don't think there will ever be a more wonderful evocation of #GothicSpring or #GothicFairies She was born to play the fae!

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THE LIMINAL When we are on a threshold, between the known & the unknown, between darkness & light, or bordering one year and the next, during any of these liminal moments, it is said that the Community of Shadows stands ready to claim us #GothicAdvent #FolkloreThursday 🎨Froud

NEW YEAR FAY #Fairies are often encountered at thresholds in time, at midday or midnight, between night & day, darkness & light, & at liminal times like the change of the year & Yuletide #FolkloreThursday #GothicYuletide Wishing you lots of fairy magic for #NewYear2020
🎨Froud

PUSS IN BOOTS. For those missing the pantomime season and for #Caturday & #GothcAdvent the most renowned animal trickster in folklore. Popularised in Perrault (1628–1703) as Le Chat Botté, in English in Mother Goose, 1780 & Blue Fairy Book, 1889 🎨Doré c.1870; Robber Kitten,1887