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@GodysseyPodcast The Salmon of Knowledge later helped Arthurian knights Cai & Bedwyr in their quest to hunt down the vicious TwrchTrwyth 😀

#FairyTaleTuesday
#Eros & #Psyche is one of the oldest recorded versions of Beauty & the Beast: Psyche falls in love with an apparent monster who hides his face from her. After many hardships, Psyche is eventually woken from a Stygian slumber by Eros' kiss ...
#GreekMythology

#FairyTaleTuesday
Famed for leading an #Iceni rebellion against Rome, #Boudica was reputedly a skilled horsewoman & warrior. Accompanied by her daughters, she led her people into battle & legend has it that they killed themselves rather than concede to the Roman Empire.

#ShakespeareSunday

"I would my horse had the speed of your tongue and so good
a continuer."

#MuchAdoAboutNothing

#FolkloreThursday
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!

#FairyTaleTuesday
#Garmr (or Garm) was a dog or wolf in #NorseMythology who was guardian of the World Tree #Yggdrasil & sometimes associated with being a Hound of #Hel .....
"Now Garm howls wildly
Before Gnipa Cave.
Chains will snap
And the wolf will run."
#Völuspá #Grímnismál

#FairyTaleTuesday
The #CailleachBheur of #Celtic legend is reborn at #Samhain (October 31st) as an old woman & ages in reverse during the Winter months until becoming a beautiful young woman by #Beltane (May 1st)
#Winter #CelticMythology

#ShakespeareSunday
"If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended:
That you have but slumbered here,
While these visions did appear;
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream ..."
#AMidsummerNightsDream

#FolkloreThursday
The power of the #Holly #GreenMan (ruler of the Winter months) begins to wane after the Winter Solstice at Yule ..... until he is finally usurped by the #Oak Green Man who rules during the Summer months ....
#Celtic #Mythology #Yule #CalanMai

#FairyTaleTuesday
The booming cry of the #Bunyip is heard around swamps, billabongs & creeks in #Australia - Rarely seen, this shy water dweller is usually benevolent! Could it be a descendent of #Diprotodon the largest #marsupial ever to have existed?
#Aboriginal #Mythology