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#FolkloreThursday
The #Holly Green Man rules the Winter months. He is in a perpetual battle for supremacy with the #Oak Green Man (who rules the Summer months) - power shifts between the two at the Spring & Autumn solstices.
#GreenMan #Winter #WelshMythology

#FairyTaleTuesday
The mythical boar #TwrchTrwyth - which had toxic bristles & shears, a comb & a razor on its head & back - ran riot across Ireland & Wales ..... It was eventually driven into the sea off the coast of #Cornwall
#Mabinogion #ArthurianLegend

#MythologyMonday
Despite warnings that nobody who entered the Hedge of Mist ever returned, #Geraint entered it in search of enchanted geese that lived there, defeated a tyrant knight, rescued a captive maiden .... then returned to his true love #Enid.
#Mabinogion #HedgeOfMist

#FairyTaleTuesday

In #Wales the spectral #CwnAnnwn - Hounds of Hell - prowl during the hours of darkness collecting the souls of the damned ...... their eerie howls are loud in the distance, but get ever quieter the closer they get to their prey.

#NationalPoetryDay

Said Hamlet to Ophelia:
"I'll make a sketch of thee,
What kind of pencil shall I use
2B or not 2B?"

#SpikeMilligan

#WyrdWednesday
A really gross medieval manuscript illustration - presumably to prove the point that pigs will eat anything ....
#Pigs #MedievalManuscripts

@WyrdWednesday
Medieval manuscript illustrators appear to have had an obsession with animals playing musical instruments .....
in these illustrations bagpipes!
#MedievalManuscripts #Bagpipes

#FairyTaleTuesday
The squirrel #Ratatoskr was the messenger of #Yggdrasil -mischievously he liked to stir up trouble between the eagle #Veðrfölnir & the dragon #Nidhogg who lived in the branches & roots of the giant Ash Tree that was the centre of the Norse world ...

#FolkloreThursday
Living in the river #Conwy the terrifying #Afanc dragged off unsuspecting victims & caused flooding in the Conwy Valley. Lured onto land by a beautiful young woman, the Afanc was captured & taken to a new home in the deep & secure #LlynFfynnonLas in #Snowdonia

#FairytaleTuesday
Miners have long accepted the presence of small creatures in their mines - #Coblynau #Knockers #Kobolds #BlueCap #CuttySoams - mostly benign, they "knock" to reveal the site of good seams of coal, tin or ore, although if annoyed they may throw rocks!