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FAIRIES & THE DEAD Evans Wentz (1911) recorded the Highland belief in #fairy hosts as the evil dead & Cornish Peskies as the souls of unbaptised babies, appearing at Twilight in the form of moths #FolkloreThursday #GothicFairies Images: Pirner 1888; Highgate; white plume moth

FLOWERS PERSONIFIED. Invasive & unruly, the Hawthorn (Aubepine) & Gillyflower (Giroflee) are contained by plant men or gardeners, whilst the thistle (Chardon) makes an ass of her suitor with her spikes and prickles. From J.J Grandville's Les Fleurs Animées, 1847 #BotanicalGothic

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FUSELI'S PUCK (c.1790) has bat wings rather than butterfly wings; his enchantments are far from innocent. The other fairies flee in this image where he is full of movement. He boasts he can 'put a girdle round the earth in forty minutes' (MSND) #FairyTaleTuesday #GothicFairies

KING O' THE CATS. A domestic cat transforms into Tom Tildrum, the cat king, swelling & shrieking in a human voice. His image is of a CATSITH, or fairy cat, marked by a white spot. Beware if your cat has these markings! 'More English Fairy Tales', Joseph Jacobs, 1922. #Caturday

THE #MERMAID SAINT. Liban was caught in the net of Fergus of Miliuc. Clerics gave her a choice, to be baptized and go to heaven within an hour, or to wait 300 years on earth. She chose to die, miracles were wrought through her & she became St. Muirgen of Donegal #FolkloreThurday.

THE SHADOWY WATERS, 1904. Folklorist & poet W. B. Yeats, wrote of an island of women who cast no shadows & manifest as woman-headed birds, discovered by a ghost ship of undead sailors near the world's end. Yeats read about vampires during his occult phase #FolkloreThursday

FAIRIES AS FALLEN ANGELS
'All the Irish believe that #fairies are the fallen angels who were cast down by the Lord God out of heaven for their sinful pride. Some fell into the sea, and some on dry land & the devil gives these knowledge & power ' Lady Wilde, 1887. #GothicFairies

@Tatiana19796 Thank you for posting this. I have always been intrigued by Blake's account. Yeats and others were scathing of this vision because they believe fairies to be immortal though they can wither and fade! Fitzgerald painted fairy funerals in the Victorian era.

THE FAIRY-LAND OF SCIENCE Arabella Buckley instructs on geology & natural history via #fairies (1878)
They remember yet the tales we told them
of fairies, long ago,
When they loved in fancy to behold them
Quick dancing earthward in the feathery snow (Frontispiece).