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On #BatAppreciationDay 🦇

The natives of Renwick, Cumbria were known as ‘bats’ due to the monstrous creature that is said to have flown out of the foundations of their church in 1733

#bats #folklore #cumbria
art: Heinrich Aldegrever

"There's always a hidden owl in 'knowledge'" ~ E I Jane

art: Owl with Glasses and Books, by Cornelis Bloemaert after Hendrick Bloemaert, 1625

#OwlishMonday

Would it be rude to suggest a selection of my own #paintings this #wyrdwednesday

Exploring 'birth and rebirth' and its lack of inherent existence; and containing elements of Greek, Egyptian mythology; Tarot

#mythology #philosophy #Cumbria

wynderful art for #wyrdwednesday

one of my favourite painters, Richard Dadd :

Noted for his depictions of faeries and the supernatural. Convinced his father was the Devil, Dadd killed him with a knife. Caught, he was incarcerated.

My late grandmother would say that Galloway was the last stronghold of the Ancient Folk (faeries).
In 1850 a hawthorn tree halted the widening of the road between Glenluce and Newton Stewart because it was 'faerie property'.

#SuperstitionSat #GallowayFolklore
art: Joanna Wolska

The gean-cánach, the 'love talker', is a male faerie in Irish myth similar to a leprechaun. He is known for seducing men and women, but is particularly fond of shepherds and milkmaids.

#FairyTaleTuesday #leprechaun
art: Daemon Love by Maximilian Pirner

There's a tale from the Solway Firth of a mermaid who fell in love with a sailor whom she rescued when his ship ran aground. She slipped a gold ring on his finger and promised to return, but after many years, he died, alone.

#FairyTaleTuesday #Cumbria
art: Arthur Rackham

The gean-cánach, the 'love talker', is a male faerie in Irish myth similar to a leprechaun.
He is known for seducing men and women, but is particularly fond of shepherds and milkmaids.

#FairyTaleTuesday #faeries
art: Daemon Love by Maximilian Pirner

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, who died #onthisday in 1989

#surrealism #art #SalvadorDalí

The Persistence of Memory
The Temptation of Saint Anthony
Fountain of milk spreading itself uselessly on three shoes
Swans Reflecting Elephants

In Scots Gaelic myth, faeries were regarded as either nature spirits or as spirits of the dead. They would exist in 'faerie mounds' awaiting reincarnation.
There's a similar belief regarding elves in N. Europe

#fairytaletuesday #scottishfolklore
The Fairy Raid by Noel Paton