Siân E Powell〓〓🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿さんのイラストまとめ

Faeries would sneak into houses to steal away children & replace them with changelings who looked exactly the same. Their strange behaviour would indicate something was wrong, presumably the human children danced with the faeries...#FolkloreThursday
Incredible art by Ed Binkley

Arianrhod is a magic figure in the Mabinogion. Claiming to be a virgin, she delivers 2 magical sons. Dylan who seeks the ocean & becomes a sea spirit as well as great & handsome hero Lleu Llaw Gyffes on whom she places a tynged (spell) influencing his destiny. #FolkloreThursday

Branwen, a character within the Mabinogion, is trapped and essentially held prisoner by her husband in a tower. Instead of sitting idly by, she trains a starling to carry a message across the Irish Sea to her brother, Bendigeidfran, the giant king of Britain. #FolkloreThursday

Fairies consider it really quite rude to trample on bluebells as they hold them in such high regard...it is said that when they need to summon their kin to a Gathering then the bluebells make a ringing sound - but if humans hear this then it is a bad omen... #FolkloreThursday

Unfairly called villain, the banshee? She’s a harbinger of death but reminiscent of old Irish funerary processions which included paid mourners to wail/shriek, doesn’t she also mourn death? Why is she always depicted so frightful? #FolkloreThursday @FolkloreThurs

villain in #folklore? Y/n? The men who stole & hid away the sealskin of Selkie maidens so they cannot go home. This binds them to the land, forcing them into marriage but always she stares at the sea...longing to return. If she finds her skin she surely will. #FolkloreThursday

I put it to you that Kind Hearts & Coronets (1949) is simply spectacular. An Ealing Studios pitch-black comedy about the son of a cast out noblewoman, 12th in line for the dukedom, who methodically eliminates the minor obstacles in his way...”not an atom of him was left” Perfect!

“Three fictional characters that accurately describe you” probably

Barbegazi are friendly gnomes of the French/Swiss alps - they are covered in snowy white fur and their long white beards are made of icicles. They like to ski down mountains for fun using their huge feet and they often help shepherds and lost people.
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Medieval Irish literature features many voyage tales to islands and lands inhabited by magical creatures and strange things - the immram or echtrae often features a heroes journey via ship to the Otherworld to to either seek vengeance, knowledge or purpose. #FolkloreThursday