Old Weird Britainさんのイラストまとめ

"Pixie fine,
Pixie gay,
Pixie now will run away!"
(Thus sang a ragged little #pixie on discovering a gift of new clothes from an old woman.)
#folklore #Devon

"And the third sister, Morgan Le Fay, was put to school in a nunnery, and there she learned so much that she was a great clerk of #necromancy." - Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, first published in 1485.
#folklore #Arthurian #legend

The #nuckelavee is a nightmarish #Scottish sea-monster, a skinless hybrid of horse and huge male torso, with a single fiery eye. Webbed fins flap on its legs; blood, black as tar, courses through its veins; great blooded sinews twist and stretch as it moves.
#folklore

A superstitious notion prevails in West #Devonshire that at twelve o'clock at night on #ChristmasEve, the oxen in their stalls kneel in an attitude of devotion, in homage to our saviour's birth.
#folklore

In the #RiverTees lives Peg Powler, a water spirit with an "insatiable desire for human life". She lures children into the river to drown and be eaten. The foam seen floating on certain parts of the Tees is called Peg Powler's suds or Peg Powler's cream.
#folklore

Alternative Christmas Feast suggestions:
Stewed newts' thighs;
Moth fattened in a piece of cloth with withered cherries;
Unctuous dewlaps of a snail;
Tears of a slain stag;
Broke heart of nightingale overcome with musicke;
Moles' eyes
[with apologies to Herrick]
#folklore #faerie

The reindeer did not dare to stop. It ran on till it came to the bush with the red berries. There it put Gerda down, and kissed her on the mouth, while big shining tears trickled down its face.
Image: #EdmundDulac
#FolkloreThursday

After #Lucifer and his impious crew were routed from heaven, the less sinful among his #FallenAngels were allowed to haunt the earth, dwelling in woods and on high hills, and known to men as #elves.
Recorded in #medieval MS #SouthEnglishLegendary
Image: Nils_Blommér
#folklore

Fairy Sighting 1634: Mr Hart, schoolmaster at Yatton Keynell, disturbed a group of #faeries dancing, singing and "making all manner of small odd noyses". On seeing him, the faeries pinched him all over, tormenting him with "a sorte of quick humming noyse".
#folklore #Wiltshire

In th'olde days of the king Arthour,
Of which Britons speken greet honour,
Al was this land fulfild of fayerye.
(Chaucer, late 14th century)