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To make images of the Greek gods be recognizable by everyone, even people who can't read, each god was given some distinctive piece of clothing or accessory - Athena, Hermes, and Ares each wear a particular helmet, Hera wears a crown, Apollo carries a lyre, etc. #FolkloreSunday

Rhitta was a Welsh giant who loved to conquer kings and then weave their beards into his cloak. By the time he tried to take King Arthur's beard, Rhitta's cloak already had a hundred beards sewn into it. However, Arthur killed him and buried him under Mt Snowdon.
#FolkloreSunday

"We must not look at goblin men,
We must not buy their fruits:
Who knows upon what soil they fed
Their hungry thirsty roots?"
"Come buy," call the goblins
Hobbling down the glen.
-Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market"
🎨Arthur Rackham
#FolkloreSunday

The pwca is the black-furred Welsh version of the pooka - a forest goblin trickster. Sometimes the pwca uses a magic candle to lead travelers off the path, and other times it turns into a black animal, such a horse, and entices travelers to try to catch them.
#FolkloreThursday

The only pre-modern story in which Robin Hood directly encounters the supernatural is Ben Jonson's play "The Sad Shepherd" (1641). Robin has to stop the Witch of Papplewick from using her shape-shifting and illusion to trick, rob, and torment the local shepherds.
#FolkloreSunday

"Long green train of her skirt thickened and grew solid, and seemed to be all one piece with the writhing green pillar of her interlocked legs.... The great serpent which the Witch had become, green as poison, thick as Jill's waist...."
- C S Lewis, "Silver Chair"
#FaustianFriday

Sometimes the "Narnia" books depict walking trees living in Narnia and other times dryads. As they never interact with each other, it's unclear their relationship or whether they're actually the same species. However, the art depicts them as very different.
#FairyTaleTuesday

The Welsh Arthurian knight Owain had a special bond with wild animals. His most loyal companion was a lion he had saved from a giant serpent, and he also commanded 300 magical ravens. This kinship may be due to his mother being the fairy goddess Modron.
#FolkloreSunday

In many versions, Morgan the Fey has good reason to hate King Arthur's existence. Merlin's magic turned Arthur's father, Uther, into Morgan's father in order to sleep with Morgan's mother to produce Arthur. Then, to keep Morgan quiet, Uther made her join a nunnery #FaustianFriday

Asya and Dmitriy Kosin are Ukrainian artists who create a wide range of paper sculptures. They are especially famous for extravagant paper costumes, such as gigantic baroque wigs and stylizations of bridal costumes from various countries.
https://t.co/MpP69RpbNo
#WyrdWednesday