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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

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

“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

The Beast of Bodmin Moor is a large phantom cat. After mauled livestock & closure of a zoo in Plymouth prompted sightings of this panther-like creature upon the moors and a government investigation revealed nothing, a large cat skull was found on the moors...
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Arawn is the King of the Otherworld in Welsh Mythology, encountered in the First Branch of the Mabinogion by the hero Pwyll when both were hunting. Pwyll finds himself in Annwn, the realm of Arawn & meets the Otherworld King’s hounds (white dogs with red ears)
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