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The silver and golden apples of wonder: https://t.co/1TaagJDTcc #FolkloreThursday
Reviving my 'Folklore Snippets' series on the 'Steel Thistles' blog. Today's offering? Dracs and Zmeus. https://t.co/VeSebvcdwC
'Colour in Fairytales' for #folklorethursday (and a version of this essay appears with others in my book 'Seven Miles of Steel Thistles'). https://t.co/tkNe4KlbHJ
And to celebrate the Return of my Blog, a post about a possible folklore influence on part of Tolkien's Return of the King. I give you 'The Fairy Flag and the Paths of the Dead'! https://t.co/WkIu9IkpQr (art by Inger Edelfeldt)
Happy 6th birthday, Folklore Thursday! @FolkloreThurs Russian miniature painting of 'The Sea King's Daughter'. "Sadko set his gusli on his lap and plucked a merry tune. Soon all the fish swam in graceful figures. The seafloor crawlers cavorted. The maidens leaped and spun."
For #folklorethursday's theme of heroines and heroes I give you plucky Irish Margaret who escapes a sea-serpent, and fights and kills a giant while the prince falls asleep: https://t.co/z3VOQcAmEC
And here's a rhyme I've always loved; it's so haunting and mysterious! #FairyTaleTuesday #nurseryrhymes
A post on how to find appropriate names for characters in historical fantasy, romance etc: https://t.co/ar4lL6JMoP #steelthistlesblog
For #FairyTaleTuesday, King Arthur's voyage to the Otherworld in his ship Prydwen - https://t.co/IPWzJCZie3