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In Welsh legend, the warrior Iddawc was so eager to witness war and slaughter that when delivering messages between King Arthur and Mordred, he made them as insulting as possible. This destroyed any chance for peace, and Arthur and Mordred killed each other.
#LegendaryWednesday
Sometimes the Narnia books features walking trees living in Narnia and other times features dryads. As the two never interact with each other, it's unclear their relationship or if they're actually the same species. However, the art depicts them as very different.
#WyrdWednesday
In "The Hobbit," Bilbo references were-worms living in the Last Desert. Some Tolkien fans have interpreted "were" to mean snakes with human intelligence (as not all Middle Earth werewolves are shape-shifters), but others imagine snakes or dragons that become human.
#WyrdWednesday
Since the Bursar later gets defined in the Discworld novels by his fall into insanity, it's hilariously ironic that in the novel he's introduced, he's depicted as a "calm and self-assured personality" with "a tremendous ability to recover from unexpected upsets."
@MaybeAnotherDay
"The Pixies know no sorrow, the Pixies feel no fear,
They take no care for harvest or seedtime of the year.
Age lays no finger on them, the reaper time goes by
The Pixies, they who change not, nor grow old or die."
-Nora Chesson, "The Pixies"
#FairyTaleTuesday
Giant sorcerers created a huge figure out of clay to help the giant Hrungnir battle Thor. Unfortunately, the only heart the sorcerers found big enough for their creation was a mare's. This made the clay figure so cowardly he peed himself when Thor approached.
#MythologyMonday
When Merlin first appears in the 12th-century "History of the King of Britain," his only supernatural power is prophecy. The original story says Merlin instead built Stonehenge via advanced "machinery," though it is vague what exactly these machines were.
#MythologyMonday
In many legends, the fairy folk are gorgeous, but in others that is an illusion to feed their own egos and entice mortals. Their true forms are ugly, perhaps even horrific. When the Welsh saint Collen realized this, the fairies he was talking to vanished into mist.
#WyrdWednesday
In the Dungeons & Dragons world of Ravenloft, because elves love to dance under the moon, elvish vampires are cursed to be burned by moonlight instead of sunlight. As a result, they're the one kind of vampire that prefers to hunt during the day and sleep at night.
#FaustianFriday
Eddilig the Dwarf is mentioned in various Welsh lists of King Arthur's warriors. He is a shapeshifter, one of Arthur's three wizard-warriors (along with Menw and Tristan). It is unclear whether Eddilig's title means he was simply a short man or actually a fairy.
#FairyTaleTuesday