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In Nordic magic, a fylgja is a companion spirit, often joining a soul at birth. The fylgja reflects the nature of the person it joins, with a goat reflecting a "tame" soul. Fylgja can be dream companions or provide omens in waking life. #WyrdWednesday

🖼: D. Lefebyre

There is a high level of crossover between fairy stories and ghost stories in Ireland. An daoine sidhe like Lugh lived and died, then reappear in the later tales of Cuchulainn as a specter. Fairies like the banshee are just sanitized Irish gods. #FairyTaleTuesday

🖼: IrenHorrors

Fear the coming of the Dullahan, a headless horseman of Ireland. Wielding a human spine and its own head, it is said to be the spirit of a dark god, Crom Dubh, constantly riding. When he stops, he speaks your name: and sucks away your soul. #FairyTaleTuesday

🖼: M. Munoz

A happy mother's day the mothers out there of all shapes and sizes; the gods certainly show there isn't one way to mothers.

And to those who have a hard time on Mother's Day, there are plenty of gods right there with you, regardless of reason.

Happy Mother's Day!

🖼: Arbetta

By accident the ten solar crows were all released and the heat was such the world was going to catch fire. The archer Hou Yi went out with nine arrows and killed nine of the ten: that is why their is one sun. Later, he would lose his great love Chang'e, the moon #FolkloreThursday

Woken with a kiss, Brunhilde the shieldmaiden was tricked into marrying the wrong man through illusion and magic. Truth is in valor and Brunhilde swore revenge on deceitful Sigurn: she is the hero of her own tale, but Sigurn's villain. #FolkloreThursday

🖼: J.N. Chinchilla

Demigod of earth and sky, trickster Maui is hero of men from the Maori to the Hawaiians, bringing fire, islands, stars and the sun all to humanity, while teaching valuable lessons about why consent matters (without it you die). #FolkloreThursday

🖼: T.C. Wolfe

Before it was a film, "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind" was a manga adapting "The Princess Who Loved Insects," a classic Japanese fairy tale. Set in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by insects and fungi, humanity is on the verge of extinction. #WyrdWednesday

Momotarō (桃太郎) is the Peach Boy, found inside a giant peach and raised by childless parents. So pure was his heart and strong his hands that as a child, with a band of friends consisting of animals, he conquered the local Oni lord and brought back their hoard #FairyTaleTuesday

While there is no consistency to Cuchulain's hair color, artists often depict it as red: when he enters his ríastrad, his battle frenzy, his hair stands on end and is sharp enough to pierce apples, becoming itself a weapon. #MythologyMonday

🖼: M. Evans (1), J. FitzPatrick (3)