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While not always confined to German households, Kobolds are often domestic in nature, much like a Scottish brownie. Believed to be a lingering pagan deity removed to a smaller stature, they were prominent enough that even Martin Luther took them seriously. #FaustianFriday

Leave out milk, bread, and honey and you'll have less housework to do: the brownie is a Scottish spirit that at night will tidy up the home a bit if given offerings. If ignored or offended, they become boggarts, so be kind. #FaustianFriday

🖼: T. DiTerlizzi

The last of Lleu's three curses was that he would marry no woman born. His uncle Gwydion saw a simple solution and collected a number of herbs and flowers, placing them in the shape of a woman. The spell cast, she became a real woman, Blodeuwedd. #FolkloreThursday

🖼: Y. Leitch

A prince of Sparta, Hyacinth drew Apollo's attention af became his lover. Hoping to impress him, an accident caused Apollo's discus to hit Hyacinth; all of the god of healing's skill could not save him. From his blood came purple flowers. #FolkloreThursday

🖼: J. Young

Lady White Snake gained the power to become human through eating immortality pills, and used her powers to save a green snake who became her ally: the two set out to find the boy who had dropped the pills, and win his heart for Lady White Snake #FairyTaleTuesday

🖼: J. Valiente

To save the fox from the fox hunters, the nobles' laundress gave him first pants, then a shirt, and whole attire of a fox hunter. Then he demanded her horse. He finally insulted her and then rode off: the fox had fully become what hunted him. #FairyTaleTuesday

🖼: K. McLaughlan

Among the Creole families or Trinidad and Tobago, a magic is passed down that can transform a soul into a Lagahoo, a kind of werewolf descended from the loup-garou. To kill this person you must beat them with an anointed stick until they are black mists. #FairyTaleTuesday

The men of Odysseus ate the cheese and bread mixed with honey readily and soon fell asleep; only one escaped. By the time Odysseus arrived, they were pigs to the last man, enchanted to live as they truly were: boarish guests in the house of a sorceress. #FairyTaleTuesday

A saga is an Icelandic prose story or history, though the term can apply elsewhere in Nordic culture as well. Most famous is the Saga of the Icelanders, but also much of Norse myth recorded, split between poems and prose. Today saga often means long stories. #FolkloreThursday

Famed Sōtō Zen poet Dōgen is known for his engimatic yet pragmatic, almost literal poems about nature, existence, and enlightenment, drawing on an understanding of Buddha that is very much with us daily. #FolkloreThursday