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

King Arthur's Knights were once rescued from a terrible fate when they became lost in a fog drenched swamp travelling back towards Camelot, by a strange white lion, a creature of the fairy folk of Wales, the Tylwyth Teg. Art self, for Wrexham folktales.
#FairyTaleTuesday

In Wales the fairy folk are called Tylwyth teg, and have a habit of leading mortals astray one way or another. Sometimes in the shape of a Draenog (hedgehog) there are many tales of fairy gifts becoming worthless, and of our human greed betraying us yet again.
#FolkloreThursday

“We must send someone to Kijiamuh Ka'ong, the Creator who makes by thinking” said Wise Owl. "We must ask him to think the world warm again so Spirit Snow will leave us in peace”.

Rainbow crow loses his voice and beauty but saves the world by bringing fire

#FolkloreThursday

In Finnish mythology Otso, or metsän kuningas (the king of the forest), and mesikämmen (honeypalm) where some of the whispered names for a spirit seldom directly named. Usually the spirit of the bear was referred to as friend, brother, uncle, or forestcousin. #FolkloreThursday

Mum told me about the Pink eiderdown again on Friday. I have heard this account of how her life was nearly lost as a toddler in an air raid on Portsmouth before. But this time felt different somehow. I have written it down too finally. Don’t lose your family stories. They matter.

The sad and lonely Bucca of the Scilly isles. Rejected by the woman he was besotted with he later becomes a haunter of the rocks with the skin of an eel and a mane of seaweed. I wonder how many wrecks he witnessed in his desolation... #FolkloreThursday

I have received three beautiful, dark stories in response to these images this week. I am so grateful to those who are contributing.
my mission now is to see them in print. they speak of so many aspects of the human condition and how it intersects with belief, nature and magic.

@ElliottBlackwe3 @MyArtshack This one has 8 pages to play with...

Happy Summer Solstice everyone. May there be a little magic for us all tonight x

@iriscompietart Thank you so much for this iris... here is M is for Melusine from my lockdown alphabet Myths in isolation. Xxx