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In Greek mythology, Nyx is one of the primordial goddesses, feared even by Zeus, & mother of the Moirai (three fates) Hypnos (sleep) & Thanatos (death). Her realm is Night, the unconscious, & all that is mud & darkness. She can bestow humans with sleep or death. #FaustianFriday

In the tale 'The Handless Maiden', the girl's real hands are cut off by her father in a deal with the devil. Only when she throws her handless arms into a forest spring to save her child, a symbol of her creative force, from drowning, do her real hands grow back. #FaustianFriday

In 'The Lindworm' tale, the serpent prince devours all his wives. The last one though is unafraid of his monstrosity. She tricks him into removing all his scales, brushes his skin w/ steel brushes, water & ashes & then bathes him in milk, restoring its humanity. #FairytaleTuesday

In Irish mythology, knowledge & wisdom are said to be stored in nine sacred hazel bushes surrounding a secret pond. In the pond swims a salmon that one day swallows the hazelnuts that fell into the pond, thus acquiring all the knowledge & wisdom in the world. #FolkloreThursday

"Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen. The remedies for repair or reclamation of any lost psychic drive are contained in stories."
Clarissa Pinkola Estés

🎨Stephanie Law #FolkloreThursday

'The goddess, from the "great above"
she set her mind toward the "great
below,"
Inanna, from the "great above" she set
her mind toward the "great below."
My lady abandoned heaven, abandoned
earth,
To the nether world she descended.'

🎨Marcela Bolivar #FaustianFriday

In the tale 'The Crane Wife', at night a woman turns into a crane, her original form, & weaves cloth using her own feathers so that her husband can sell them on the condition that he doesn't look at her. One night he peeks into her weaving room & she flies away. #FairyTaleTuesday

'For fantasy is true, of course. Children know that. Adults know it too and that's why many of them are afraid of fantasy. They know that its truth challenges, even threatens, all that is false [...]. They are afraid of dragons because they are afraid of freedom.'#FaustianFriday

In the tale ‘The White Cat’, a prince is on a quest to bring his father the best gifts to inherit the kingdom. He arrives at an enchanted palace owned by a white cat who helps him & they fall in love. For the last task he beheads her & she turns into a princess. #FolkloreThursday

In many tales, the heroine gets to marry the prince thanks to the food she cooks. In ‘The Daughter of the Sun' the girl's true royal identity is revealed through the tasty food she cooks in various ways, such as by leaping in the oven's fire w/o getting burned. #FolkloreThursday