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#MythologyMonday
The spectral #CŵnAnnwn - Hounds of Hell - prowl woods & forests 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.
#WelshMythology

#ShakespeareSunday

"False face must hide what the false heart doth know ..."

#MacBeth

#FairyTaleTuesday
Maligned by later literature, but in Celtic legend #Cai "the Tall" was a hero, one of the 3 #EnchanterKnightsOfBritain, friend of #KingArthur & #Bedwyr, slayer of giants, endowed with magical powers - and a wound from his sword would never heal.

#FairyTaleTuesday
After a devastatingly cold Winter #Rainbow #Crow sacrificed his plumage & gentle voice to collect a burning branch from the Great Sky Spirit, to save other animals. His feathers were charred black & his voice turned harsh & hoarse.
#Lenape (#NativeAmerican)

#FolkloreThursday
#Arthurian knight #Cai's inner heat was legendary - when it rained hardest, whatever he carried remained dry ... and "when his companions were coldest, he was to them as fuel with which to light their fire ...."
#Mabinogion #ArthurianLiterature

#MythologyMonday
In #ArthurianRomance the friendship of Arthurian knights #Bedwyr & #Cai can be interpreted many ways .... but they have a very close & intense friendship & their exploits bind them together ...
#Mabinogion

@agothiccookbook @WyrdWednesday It assisted Arthurian knights Cei & Bedwyr in their endeavours according to the #Mabinogion

#FairyTaleTuesday

"I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream—past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream ..."

#MidsummerNightsDream
#KylaNichole

#FairyTaleTuesday

"Come sit thee down upon this flow’ry bed,
While I thy amiable cheeks do coy,
And stick musk-roses in thy sleek smooth head,
And kiss thy fair large ears, my gentle joy."

#MidsummerNightsDream #Titania #Bottom

#MythologyMonday
The magical #AdarLlwchGwin owned by Drudwas ap Tryffin would obey only him. Ironically Drudwas was killed by the creatures after ordering them to kill the first man to arrive at a battle - his opponent was delayed, so Drudwas arrived first ....
#WelshMythology