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J.A.FITZGERALD'S DREAM PAINTINGS depict humans plagued by hideous fairyland creatures; thought to represent the effects of opium. 1. The artist has fallen asleep, on his easel is a painting of a fairy, the model looks on at him 1857. 2. 1858 3. Pipe Dreams 1870 #GothicFairies

MERMAID'S TAIL A mermaid's tail prevents access to her 'lady parts' but early depictions show mermaids with provocatively parted twin tails, suggesting they could take human lovers. This bawdy deity has been compared to Sheila-na-gig, goddess of the early Celts #FolkloreThursday

THE VISIT AT MOONLIGHT. Fairies encircle a tomb at night in E.T. Parris, 1832. The connection between romantic ballet & fairy painting is made clear; the white floating figure of a fairy ballerina in productions of 'Giselle' & 'Ondine' is transposed in this image #GothicFairies

FAIRIES AND ROBINS
It was held to be unlucky to harm a robin because they were believed to bury the bodies of people who died in the woods but #fairies show ambivalence towards them because of their association with humans. Images J.A. Fitzgerald (1832-1906) #FairyTaleTuesday

FAIRY FUNERALS. Sightings occur in #Folklore; recorded by Croker & Keightley in the C19th. #Blake claimed to have witnessed a #fairy burial in his own garden. Victorian artists John Anster Fitzgerald & Maxmillian Pirner invest fairy death scenes with fragile melancholy & wonder

PIED PIPER. Uncanny stranger who leads the children of Hamelin on a danse macabre in response to the city's unfair treatment of him. In Transylvania, folk with German sounding names are said to believe they are the descendants of the lost children of Hamelin #FolkloreThursday

GLAMOUR. An enchantment or mesmerism cast over the senses so that things are perceived only as the enchanter wishes. #Witches and above all #fairies have the power to cast their glamour over you. The spell can only be broken with a four leaf clover. Images Richard Dadd (1817-86)

PUSS IN BOOTS appeared as Le Chat Botté in Charles Perrault's Histoires in 1697. There are 7 variants & many striking illustrations #Caturday
Perrault's Fairy Tales 1867, ills Gustave Doré
Tales of Past Times 1900, ills Charles Robinson
Contes De Fées, 1908, ills Beauge Bertall

YEATS endorses the #changeling as an alternative to the sorrows of human life (The Stolen Child 1886) #FolkloreThursday #FolkoreWords

Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a #fairy hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand

I've edited with @BillBloodyHughe the first ever @GothicStudies issue dedicated to the #werewolf. https://t.co/8EyLBAG2q5
My essay:
'Wolves in the Wolds: Late Capitalism, the English Eerie, and the Weird Case of ‘Old Stinker’ the Hull Werewolf' @UHLiterature @UH_Humanities