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#FairyTaleTuesday
In tombs of gold & lapis lazuli
Bodies of holy men & women exude
Miraculous oil, odour of violet.
But under heavy loads of trampled clay
Lie bodies of the vampires full of blood;
Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet.
—WB Yeats, Oil & Blood.

#FairyTaleTuesday

How many centuries must pass before the blood of so many has soaked deep enough into the earth to be forgotten?
–Anne Rice, The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches)

🎨Angelina Zhogina

#FolkloreThursday
Norse mythology tells of Skinfaxi (Shining Mane) & Hrímfaxi (Frost Mane) who are the horses of day & night. They meet but twice a day, at dawn and dusk. Skinfaxi pulls day’s chariot across the sky, his mane bringing light. Hrímfaxi brings the darkness of night.

#FairyTaleTuesday
From Metamorphoses, written in the 2nd century Cupid & Psyche is the story of the love between the mortal Psyche & the god Cupid. It is said to be the inspiration behind the fairytale, La Belle et la Bête by French writer Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve.

#FolkloreSunday
Illustrations for Robert Browning’s The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Kate Greenaway (1846-1901.) Note the 18th century costumes in a Queen Anne style, so beloved by Greenaway, and known as the Kate Greenaway style.

#LegendaryWednesday
Caer Ibormeith, Celtic goddess of dreams & prophecy was a
shapeshifting deity who spent one year as a woman and then the next year as a swan. She fell in love with Aengus and every night for a year, she visited him in his dreams, while he slept.

#MythologyMonday
Rejected by his mother Hera because he was lame & ugly, Hephaestus was cared for by the Sintians and became a skilled craftsman. He built automatons to help him in his forge on Mt Olympus. His creations included the Golden Tripods & Talos a giant cast in bronze.

@Beth396 Feliz Jueves querida Beth, que tengas un estupendo día. Cariños.

@RosaTrunk @Luigina__16 @AudryRibka @be1t2h Thanks Rosa. Happy Thursday everyone.

@Beth396 Gracias Beth y feliz Miércoles. Te deseo un espléndido día, querida amiga. Muchos cariños.