Folklore of Ayrshireさんのイラストまとめ

'we are in conflict with each other, advancing, retreating'
gouache on paper

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My late grandmother would often recount the tale of one of her Irish ancestors encountering a Banshee on his way home one evening.
Understanding this to be an ill omen, he spent that night putting his affairs in order, and was found dead the next morning #WyrdWednesday

Behold Now Behemoth, Which I Made With Thee (The Book of Job), 1821

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William Blake; English poet, painter, printmaker, and fellow Druid

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In Buddhist cosmology, this World is supported on the backs of four elephants, themselves resting on the back of a turtle
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Loch Iorsa on the Isle of Arran has it's very own monster myth.
The loch's name means 'loch of the serpents'. This serpent is perhaps a wurm: a dragon with no legs nor wings from folklore.
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In a cave in the hillside at Corriegills, Isle of Arran, faeries lived. This cave was apparently full of gold and treasure. A man called Fullarton frequently took some wool and would sit, knitting with them.
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Loch Iorsa on the Isle of Arran has it's very own #monster myth.
The loch's name means 'loch of the snakes/ serpents'. This serpent is perhaps a wurm: a dragon with no legs nor wings from folklore.

#dragons #folklore #AyrshireFolklore

lost, but not possessed
the irrationality
of unquenched desire

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In some Gaelic myth, #faeries were regarded as either non-human nature spirits or as spirits of the dead. They would exist in 'faerie mounds' awaiting reincarnation (a similar belief regarding elves in northern Europe). #FairyTaleTuesday

🎨 The Fairy Raid by Sir Noel Paton 1867

#FairyTaleTuesday Loch Iorsa on the Isle of Arran has it's very own monster myth. The loch's name means 'loch of the snakes/ serpents'. This serpent is perhaps a wurm, a dragon with no legs nor wings from folklore. #storytelling #AyrshireFolklore
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