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Some illustrations by Gris Grimly for Edgar Allan Poe's 'Tales of Mystery and Madness', 2004

#MythologyMonday In Inuit mythology an ijiraq is a sort of shape shifter who kidnaps children and hides them away and abandons them. The inuksugaq (or inukshuk) of stone allow these children to find their way back if they can convince the ijiraq to let them go.#GothicAdvent

#Caturday Woman practicing sorcery with black cats as companions. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century A.B. Frost illustration. https://t.co/9g99NPIXa3

#FolkloreThursday According to folklorist Wirt Sikes the gwyllion are female fairies of frightful aspect who haunt lonely roads in the Welsh mountains and lead travellers astray. They are more akin to hags or witches.
#art by Todd Lockwood

C. Allan Gilbert was an illustrator who is especially remembered for a drawing (a memento mori or vanitas) titled 'All Is Vanity'.The drawing employs a double image in which the scene of a woman admiring herself in a mirror, when viewed from a distance,appears to be a human skull

Henry Fuseli, "Odysseus in front of Scylla and Charybdis", between 1794 and 1796.

#FairyTaleTuesday Fenrir is a monstrous wolf in Norse mythology. Fenrir is attested in the 'Poetic Edda'. Fenrir is the father of the wolves Sköll and Hati Hróðvitnisson, is a son of Loki, and is foretold to kill the god Odin, but will in turn be killed by Odin's son Víðarr.

#FolkloreThursday In German folklore,the Roggenmuhme ("rye aunt") is a corn demon. Her bosoms are filled with tar, and may end in tips of igneous iron. She is known for stealing children who are looking for cornflowers. She also replaces children with changelings
#art Igor Krstic

#MythologyMonday After the French Revolution, Medusa was used as a popular emblem of Jacobinism and was often displayed as a figure of "French Liberty." This was in opposition to "English Liberty," which was personified by Athena (whose shield bore Medusa's head).

Fairy funerals are commonly described in folklore. Typically, a man or a woman stumbles on a fairy princess being buried in the middle of the night.
Source: https://t.co/fxXTFsKJYa
#art 'Fairy Funeral' by Maximilian Pirner,1888