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LEANAN-SIDHE The Irish life-giving fairy who inspires poets and singers, as opposed to the BAN-SIDHE who foretells death (Lady Wilde, Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms & Superstitions of Ireland,1887) Image: Brian Froud #GothicFolklore

THE TIDDY ONES Lincolnshire. Wonderful local name for the fen fairies. The Tiddy Mun controls the floods (Briggs). Assorted fen fey folk by Rackham (1867-1939) #GothicChill

MARA An old English name for a DEMON that survives in the word NIGHTMARE🎨Iconic Gothic images of Nightmares from Henry Fuseli 1781 to Tartini's Dream by Louis Leopold Boilly 1824 & John-Pierre Simon's Perturbed Woman, 1764 #SuperstitionSat

THE WILD SWANS Fairy tale by Hans Andersen,1838. An evil queen turns her eleven stepsons into swans and forces them to fly away, they're only allowed to become human again by night. A possible influence on Swan Lake 🎨Anadezhda Illarionova #FairytaleTuesday

LIKE TASKS An ancient ninth-century poem, written by an Irish monk about his curiously clever #cat for #FolkloreThursday theme of work #academicswithcats
I and Pangur Ban my cat,
'Tis a like task we are at:
Hunting mice is his delight,
Hunting words I sit all night.

ELFLAND is associated with the land of the dead; mortals who enter are only released if they are able to perform some task of value to the fae. The entrance is said to be underground or in the 'inbetween'; a doorway in forests, hills, stone or mountains #FairyTaleTuesday Doré

HARLEQUIN (Arlecchino) key character in commedia dell'arte, long with Punch, Pantaloon, Zany, Pierrot, Columbine & Scaramouche; the scenarios both comic & romantic are also deeply tragic & uncanny, as reflected in 'The soul of Harlequin' , Iryna Lupashchenko
#MythologyMonday

EAST OF EDEN: A GUIDE TO ANGELS Sam George over on @OGOMProject blog: warring angels, fallen angels, guardian angels, angel fiction, angels in film, the hierarchy of angels #GothicChill https://t.co/bdzCYCzebb

DEMON LOVERS This erotic encounter with a demon (Демон) is painted by Mihály von Zichy (1827-1906) it depicts a poem called 'The Demon' by Mikhail Lermontov c.1829. See also 'Tamara and the Demon', Konstantin Makovsky, 1889 #GothicNewWorlds

GHOST OF CHRISTMAS YET TO COME.
The Phantom gravely, silently, approached, shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its head, its face, its form, and left nothing of it visible save one outstretched hand. 3rd spirit to appear to Scrooge #GothicAdvent 1843, 1970