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GOBLIN MARKET 1859 ills Rackham 1933 #FairyTaleTuesday dark fae & the fallen

Never mind my bruises,
Hug me, kiss me, suck my juices
Squeez’d from goblin fruits for you,

Eat me, drink me, love me;
[....] For your sake I have braved the glen
And had to do with goblin men

ELFLAND or Alfheim 'elf-home' is associated with the land of the dead in folklore; no sun or moon only perpetual twilight. Mortals who enter are only released if they are able to perform some task of value to the fae, W. Henderson, 1897🎨 Gustave Doré, 1870 #FolkloreThursday

SKILLYWIDDEN The wonderful name of a Pixie caught by a farmer in Trerbridge in #Cornwall. It is one of only a few captured fae that have ever been documented; recorded in Hunt's Popular Romances of the West of England, 1865 #FolkloreThursday 🎨Cornish Piskies Brian Froud

OWL SERVICE When Alan Garner found plates the design of which could be seen as either owls or flowers The Owl Service, 1960, was born from the legend of the MABINOGION Celtic wizard Gwydion creates a woman out of flowers, Blodeuedd, who becomes a flower-faced owl #MythologyMonday

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 feeds on night mist scented with flowers; Fitzgerald; Rackham #MythologyMonday

MIDSUMMER'S EVE In Ireland, Midsummer’s Eve is celebrated on 23 June; also St John’s Eve. Titania dotes on Bottom transformed into a donkey by the elusive Puck in #Midsummer Night's Dream 🎨
Oliver Messel; Hubert von Herkomer; Edwin Landseer; Arthur Rackham #WyrdWednesday

IRISH AISLING DEFEATS BRITISH VAMPIRE BAT The Irish National League is depicted as the armed and vigilant Aisling figure, ready to defend Ireland from the monstrous vampirism of the British empire; from The Irish Pilot, 1885. #WyrdWednesday

ODETTE Tchaikovsky’s Swan Queen swims on a lake made from her mother's tears after a sorcerer, Baron von Rothbart, transforms her into a swan; at night she regains her human form. Anna Pavlova's dying swan dress; Mikhail Vrubel's Swan Princess #FairyTaleTuesday .

ANGUS A gothic fairy from Irish Folklore whose kisses would turn into birds; Kathryn Wallace, Folk-lore of Ireland, Legends, Myths. Fairy-Tales,1910 🎨Caroline Jamhour; Assorted Irish fairy books #GothicSpring

BLUE FAIRY Kindly saviour of wayward puppet Pinocchio 1883; human-sized, not diminutive, she has a mysterious history, appearing first as a spectre child with blue hair🎨Illustrations: Charles Folkard, 1914; Carlo Chiostri, 1902; Disneyfication, 1940 #FairytaleTuesday