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5. WILD HUNT HISTORY After the Reformation and the abolishment of the concept of purgatory among Protestants, The Wild Hunt became the fate of the unbaptised dead, especially infants.

5. WILD HUNT HISTORY After the Reformation and the abolishment of the concept of purgatory among Protestants, The Wild Hunt became the fate of the unbaptised dead, especially infants.

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
7 sisters werewolf myth popularised by Sabine Baring-Gould, 1865 #FairytaleTuesday #Gothtober

AUTUMN FAIRY RINGS are often a reminder of just how magical the fall is but upon entering an elf ring or sorcerer's circle of mushrooms you may become invisible and be made to dance until you die of exhaustion! 🎨W.H Sullivan painting #FairyTaleTuesday

KNOW YOUR WATER NYMPHS The Greeks had a special fondness for water nymphs. These seductive female spirits were classified according to the type of water they inhabited:
OCEANIDS- oceans
NEREIDS- foamy, rocky coastal waters
NAIADS - freshwater, lakes, rivers & streams

7. Sightings of people who have died are said to be from ELFLAND (Hendersen, Scottish Fairy Belief)
Images: Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré; John Anster Fitzgerald #GothicFairies

3. Other accounts include Bowker’s ‘Fairy Funeral’ in Goblin Tales of Lancashire, 1883 and the funeral of a Fairy Queen in Hunt’s Popular Romances of the West of England, 1865. Image Maximillian Pirner ‘Funeral Fairies’, 1888

THE SNOW QUEEN'S MIRROR created by a Hobgoblin, makes anything good in the world appear bad & all that is evil & worthless seem attractive. If a fragment enters a person's eye they will see only faults, if a splinter enters the heart it will turn to ice #FairyTaleTuesday 🎨T.Pym

Join me for the Fens, Oceans and Mercreatures panel at #DublinIGA22 tomorrow at nine. I'll be talking about the gothicisation and mermaidisation of Ningyō, or Japanese ‘human fish’ yōkai and the mummified mermaids of old Japan where eating mermaid flesh brings immortality🎨Hsu

NEVER EAT FAIRY FOOD It is transformed by their use of GLAMOUR & made up of weeds or rotten fruit. Fairies themselves prefer stalks of heather & the milk of red deer🎨Mary Evans, A human girl is fed night mist scented with flowers; Rackham #FolkloreSunday