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#FolkloreSunday Legend has it that on his death King Arthur turned into a chough, the crow of Cornwall, so that he could return again when needed. The bird's beak and legs turned red with Arthur's blood

#FairyTaleTuesday Helios, Selene and Eos are heavenly siblings, the children of Titans Hyperion and Theia. Helios is the personification of the sun, his sister Selene the moon, and sister Eos the Dawn. Images: Edward Poynter Vision of Endymion, Vivien Leigh as Eos the dawn

#WyrdWednesday A Victorian superstition held that those born at midnight were more likely to be gifted at seeing or communicating with the spirit world. And especially to be born at midnight on certain days such as Christmas Day or New Year's Eve

#FairyTaleTuesday The New Year's New Moon is for divination.For a vision of a future love, steal out at night, climb a stile & hail the moon. View the moon through a handkerchief,the number of moons you see is the number of years you have to wait.Img:Frank Dicksee The Moon Maiden

#FolkloreThursday Saule is the Baltic goddess of light and the sun. When she cries her tears become amber. At winter solstice she rides across the sky, drawn by reindeer, dropping gifts of amber to those below. The reindeer are all female, as males shed their antlers by December

#FolkloreThursday In Scottish folklore a Glaistig is a spirit or fae.Taking the form of a green woman a Glaistig is ambiguous, sometimes benevolent and protective, sometimes dangerous as she lures men to their deaths. She is also linked to various Green Lady hauntings in Scotland

#WyrdWednesday For all his wisdom Merlin's downfall is caused by his desire for two women. He lies to Arthur to protect Morgan le Fay. Later his pupil Vivien (Nemue) spurns his advances unless he teach her sorcery, then uses enchantments against him to entomb him in the forest

#FairyTaleTuesday Rapunzel is named for the vegetable growing in the Witch's garden which her mother so covets. These Gordon Laite illustrations show the witch as a pipe-smoking, red-eyed fiend with her cat familiar, and even show the radish roots of the rapunzel @EnchantedEzine

#WyrdWednesday A teacher in France in the 1800s, Emilie Sagee moved from job to job frequently, never staying in one place for long. In each school in which she taught she was plagued by her own ghost, her doppelgänger. This eerie double was seen by every class that she taught.

#FairyTaleTuesday #FairyTaleFlash Under enchantment, The Lady of Shalott cannot leave her weaving & sees the world through a mirror. As Lancelot passes, she falls in love, leaves the tower."The mirror crack'd from side to side, the curse is come upon me cried The Lady of Shallot"