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@AnnaGDreadful @OGOMProject Glad you like it...small typo yes thank you - Befana. I guess she is a kind of hag figure but when you look at illustrations she is often depicted as a witch with a broomstick!

HANS ANDERSEN, The Nightingale, ills Edmund Dulac, 1911. The little nightingale's song is so vibrant & magical it banishes the demon death when it threatens to take the emperor; 'Even death himself listened to the song and said 'go on little Nightingale, go on!' #FairyTaleTuesday

The CATSITH, or fairy cat, is marked by a white spot & its kind make up the key mourners at the funeral of The King of The Cats. On this day according to lore the new Cat King will declare himself, swelling & shrieking in a human voice before running off to fairyland #Caturday

THE MERMAID'S TEARS Retelling of Andersen's Little Mermaid by Kurahashi Yumiko 倉橋 由美子. The mermaid is interspecies with the body of a fish & long legs, influenced by Magritte (1943) & mirroring the hybridity of the Ningyo Yōkai (image Hsu) in reverse #FairyTaleTuesday

APPLE In English lore the apple tree 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; to #witches apples are magical, the core is a pentacle.

AN ENCHANTMENT or mesmerism cast over the senses is referred to as 'glamour'. #Witches and above all #fairies have the power to cast their glamour over you (it's only broken with a four leaf clover). Images Richard Dadd (1817-86) #31DaysOfHalloween Day 29

WILD HUNT In Celtic & Germanic folklore a furious bunch of #ghosts of the restless dead, which ride through the sky on their phantom horses accompanied by spectral hounds, shrieking & making wild noises; reported as late as 1940 in England on All Hallow's Eve #31DaysOfHalloween

CALLICANTZAROS. Greek #Vampire being & demon confined to the underworld. He only emerges for 12 days from 25th Dec to 7th Jan. The callicantzaros is therefore uncannily referred to in English as the Christmas Vampire. #FolkloreThursday @OGOMProject

When #FairyTaleTuesday meets #DollsPuppetsToys Pinocchio is frankly terrifying. He's set alight, enslaved to a puppet master, lynched by ruffians, swallowed by a fish & plunged alive into a pot before becoming a real boy.
Ills Folkyard from my treasured 1914 Dent edition

I love the idea of #Halloween #Fairies it fits @OGOMProject #GothicFairies theme so well. May the fairies of Halloween bring you every wish!! #31DaysofHalloween Day 10 #FolkloreThursday