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The Iceni queen Boudica burned Camulodunum, Londinium, and Verulamium to the ground, and at each took the Roman women to sacred druidic trees sacred to the goddess Andraste. There she sacrificed them, impaling them and sewing their mouths shut, to summon victory #FairyTaleTuesday

Maiden, mother, crone, three-in-one, the Morrigan of Ireland is master of fate and death, the Phantom Queen who rules the land as battle crow and wailing woman. She gives prophecy, at a steep price, and magicians are loyal to her, for she is Sovereign Queen. #FolkloreThursday

Made equal to Adam, Lilith would not submit to his dominance and for that crime God cast her out of Eden. Whether with angels or other men or Cain, Lilith became the mother of demons and foreigners, and a much maligned part of Abrahamic religion. #FolkloreThursday

🖼: LeGrebe

In Haitian Vodou, Maman Brigitte is wife of Baron Samedi, the loa who leads the spirits of the dead to the beyond, to find peace and rest. She curses wickedly and has a taste for rum, and the rooster is her symbol, yet she is compassionate. #FairyTaleTuesday

🖼: @vinegaria

His body dismantled by Set in a rage, Osiris still conceived a child with Isis: different versions give different recollections. In some versions a phantom of Osiris impregnated her, ans the child became Horus, Osiris' heir and future king of the gods. #FairyTaleTuesday

Medieval Irish scholars categorized monsters and spirits as morrígna, a class of phantom. Most prominent was the banshee, or "fairy-woman," whose scream foretold death in the great families. In Old Irish this title belonged to the Morrigan, the Phantom Queen #FairyTaleTuesday

#FolkloreThursday Beneath the sea lies Ryūgū-jō (竜宮城), realm of the Japanese dragon kami Ryūjin (龍神). Its four gardens corresponds with the four seasons regardless of the season above the waves, and there is always plenty. Humans do not age here, and time passes differently.

#FolkloreThursday Folkhero of nearly all Polynesian cultures, Maui is a trickster of the Pacific from New Zealand to Hawaii. He brings mankind many gifts at his own expense and often with negative side effects, yet humans are always thankful for his lessons and resources.

#FairyTaleTuesday In Irish tradition an daoine sidhe, the fairies, live in the hills. They were pushed there by waves of invaders who took Ireland until the coming of the Gaels. These sidhe dwell under the hills and are part of the living landscape of Ireland.

🖼: J. Duncan

#FairyTaleTuesday Lugh Lamfada fostered with Manannan mac Lir, Lord of Tir na nOg. An daoine sidhe, a Gaelic name for the fairies, reside there when they do not reside in Ireland: Lugh thus learned his many skills from the fairies, a useful trade indeed.

🖼: J. Brideson