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Calling Inari trans is open to interpretation but I use the term historically. Inari is traditionally feminine, seen as a woman or androgynous at least up until the 16th century and then only becomes male in certain contexts.

Pwyll was whisked to the Welsh Otherworld for killing one of its King's stags. Arawn, King of Annwn, offered Pwyll a deal: live as Arawn for a year and let Arawn live as Pwyll for a year, and he would ignore the stag. So they switched. #WyrdWednesday

🖼: A.M. Ferguson

Daughter of the queen of the sea falls in love with a land-dwelling human, and the world falls into chaos. Based on Hans Christian Anderson's classic The Little Mermaid, Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea is a Japanese retelling with a very different ending. #FairyTaleTuesday

Mexico is the only revolutionary state in the Western hemisphere that outlawed slavery from its beginning and it stayed that way. This is a central cause of the Texan Revolution: white and Tejano settlers wanted the right to own slaves and Mexico refused. #FolkloreThursday

Phonecian merchants, and later their Carthaginian successors, were prolific in the ancient Mediterranean, sailing to far shores to reach untapped markets. Known for their dyed cloth and bartering, the Greeks said they were untrustworthy; so did the Romans. #MythologyMonday

Tokugawa Era Japan (1600-1868) saw the solidification of the caste system which placed merchants at the bottom. Ironically by the end of the era they were the most wealthy, as they had no fixed salary. Many samurai became merchants rather than be impoverished. #MythologyMonday

How did Fortuna, goddess of luck and fate equivalent to Greek Tyche, survive Christianity? The writings of Boethius, a neoplatonic philosopher born after the fall of Rome. Fortuna survived because of his writing and evolved into Lady Luck, both blind and smiling #MythologyMonday

"Morning and evening
Maids heard the goblins cry:
'Come buy our orchard fruits,
Come buy, come buy:
Apples and quinces,
Lemons and oranges...'"
-Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market"

🖼: A. Rackham

Some Norse magic was gendered. No man was allowed to learn Seidir, women's magic, and no man could become a Volva, a Norse seer. There was one exception to this rule: Odin learned Seidir from Freyja. Odin regularly broke gender rules, ignoring such "sins." #FolkloreThursday

The Old Woman of Winter and Wise Woman is the Cailleach, a trickster spirit of Gaelic-speaking regions. Frost is her coat laid on the ground, for winter is her time, and she can spite you or bless you if you are kind. Don't fear her: embrace her #FairyTaleTuesday

🖼: J. Brideson