Katherine Soutar part sprite part dandelion clockさんのイラストまとめ

S is for Selkie from my Myths in isolation alphabet.
#illustrationart
#FairyTaleTuesday

The twins of Edzell. Neither could hear and they spoke only to each other. But they were strong in body and mind and quick witted. The fearful and jealous betrayed them and were in turn killed by wolves bearing the same birthmarks as the betrayed...

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#MythologyMonday

Scrolling through Twitter tonight... mood.

“But Death eludes me, and flies from my embrace. In vain do I throw myself in the way of danger. I plunge into the Ocean; The Waves throw me back with abhorrence upon the shore: I rush into fire; The flames recoil at my approach”
Matthew ‘Monk’ Lewis
#FaustianFriday
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“I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed”

Mary Shelley’s The Modern Prometheus, The alternative title that makes so much more sense than the one we know best...

For today’s #WyrdWednesday
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"And pleasant is the fairy land,
But, an eerie tale to tell,
Ay at the end of seven years,
We pay a tiend to hell,
I am sae fair and fu o flesh,
I'm feard it be mysel.”

Tam lin goes on to instruct his brave Janet on how to save him from this fate

#FairyTaleTuesday
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@SBerryWrites

Some see the constellation of Virgo as Astraea, goddess of Justice. In the Golden Age the gods lived with us on earth but the increasing iniquity of humanity drove them one by one, to leave the earth and go to live in the heavens.
She was last to leave.
#WyrdWednesday
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Two poets from different courts cross the sea to meet King Lubdan, monarch of the Lepra and Leprechaun. He sends his own steed to bear them.

This is the mount that carried Esirt and Aed across the waves, as described in Armagh folk tales and painted by me. #MythologyMonday

From four of my favourite stories about the fair folk for #InternationalFairyDay... they come in all shapes and sizes you know. 😉