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FAIRIES BEHAVING BADLY Armed fey are seen warring with 'rere-mice' for their 'leathern wings', killing caterpillars as 'canker' & spearing a 'red hipped humble bee' in A Midsummer Night's Dream illustrated #ArthurRackham 1908. Hey fairies leave those bees alone! #FolkoreWords

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM illustrated by Arthur #Rackham 1908
Hobgoblin Puck despairs at humankind "'Lord what fools these mortals be" (Act III) & reveals his identity to a fairy "I am that merry wanderer of the night"(Act II)
#FolkoreWords

RUMPELSTILTSKIN ills #EdwardGorey 1973.
More on naming Fey @OGOMProject #FolkloreWords
"Merrily the feast I’ll make.
Today I’ll brew, tomorrow bake;
Merrily I’ll dance and sing,
For next day will a stranger bring.
Little does my lady dream
RUMPELSTILTSKIN is my name!"’

GOBLIN MARKET 1862 ill #Rackham 1933
on the reclamation of fallen women

Never mind my bruises,
Hug me, kiss me, suck my juices
Squeezed from goblin fruits for you,
Goblin pulp and goblin dew.
[ ]For your sake I have braved the glen
And had to do with goblin men
#FolkloreWords

"Grandmother what big ears you have"
"The better to hear with my child"
"Grandmother what big eyes you have"
"The better to see with my child"
"Grandmother what big teeth you have"
"The better to eat you with!"
Perrault, Le Petit Chaperon Rouge 1697 tr. Tatar #FolkloreWords
Doré

WARRING ANGELS. In times of spiritual warfare the forces of light are angels but the forces of darkness, led by Satan, are angels too, The Archangel Michael, drives these dark rebel angels from heaven & throws them into hell. Images Dore 1866 from Paradise Lost #demonoftheday

NEMESIS Goddess of vengeance & retribution, is a 'dispenser of dues', a sombre, winged maiden with a whip, sword or scales, with one foot on a wheel of fortune. She is the leveller who will effect equilibrium by punishing wrongdoers
Tattaresc 1843; Rethel 1837 #demonoftheday

THE MIDGARD SERPENT or Jörmungandr. Offspring of the giantess Angrboða & Loki, so huge that its coils stretch right around the world. When Thor baits it with an ox head Jörmungandr vomits poison & blood before sinking back into the sea #WateryFolklore
Images Fuseli to Marvel

GREAT SILKIE OF SULE SKERRIE Old Orkney Ballad. A girl romances a seal man; after 7 years the selkie returns & gives their son a gold chain. She marries a human who 1 day shoots 2 seals, round the neck of the youngest dying seal is a gold chain #WateryFolklore #FolkloreThursday

A MERMAID'S TAIL prevented her from consummating relationships with humans; artists suggestively erased her tail. Waterhouse’s siren has scales from her calves down; in 1896 Munch’s #mermaid’s fishy tail starts at her knees & Magritte’s extends only to mid thigh #WateryFolklore