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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; young men are slow in seeking one of SEVEN sisters in marriage.
Sabine Baring-Gould, 1865
#IntheCompanyofWolves
KUBIKAJIRI (首かじり) head-eating ghost or ghoul of Japanese folklore rumoured to lurk in graveyards #FolkloreThursday #FolkloreGetsEvil
ALP. German shapeshifting #vampire. Can terrify people with the EVIL EYE and drink blood or milk through the nipples of both sexes. Likes to wear a magical invisibility hat; shares some traits with the incubus. #FolkloreGetsEvil
THE VISIT AT MOONLIGHT Fairies encircle a tomb at night in E.T. Parris, 1832. The connection between gothic, #ballet & #fairy painting is made clear; the white floating figure of a fairy ballerina in productions of 'Giselle' & 'Ondine' is here transposed #GothicFairies
FEY JANE 'elfin' & 'bewitching', Jane Eyre 1847, is said in the novel to be a friend of 'the men in green'. She sketches 'an elf in a Hedge-Sparrow's nest, under a wreath of hawthorn bloom'; Bronte is thought to be referencing #fairy images by 🎨Amelia Jane Murray 1800-1896 below
SKILLYWIDDEN. The wonderful name of a #Pixie caught by a farmer in Trerbridge in #Cornwall. It is one of only a few captured fey that have ever been documented and is recorded in Hunt's Popular Romances of the West of England 1865 #MythologyMonday 🎨Cornish Piskies Brian Froud
WEREWOLF WARNING #FullMoon2020 the first full moon of the year tonight 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. Farmers Beware!! @OGOMProject
CHILDREN OF LIR (or Oidheadh chloinne Lir) Aoife, transforms Lir's 4 children into white swans. The swans sing with human voices & tell Lir of Aoife's evil act. Aoifé, touched by a druid's wand is transformed into a demon.
🎨Hill, 1914; rare Lir stamp, Lir Sculpture, Dublin