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#Faeries, with their free, joyous temperament and love of beauty, abhor the niggardly nature that spends grudgingly and never gives freely.

Indeed, they punish such people, and make them suffer for the sins of the hard heart and niggard hand.

#folklore
Art: #BrianFroud

The #Cyhyraeth is a #Welsh 'Weeper'. It is heard groaning before a death, especially multiple deaths.

Its doleful sound is heard first at a distance, then nearer, then close at hand; so that it is a three-fold warning of death.

Pic: @iriscompietart
#deathlore
#FolkloreThursday

Church #Bells Scare #Faeries.

The faeries remained in #Saddleworth, Greater Manchester 'of very recent date' until:

"The steeple rose,
And bells began to play."
Old Moss, the Faerie Queen
No longer durst remain."

Art: #ArthurRackham

Witches sail in eggshells.
They delight in creating storms and mayhem.

After eating a boiled egg, always poke a hole in the shell. This will scupper her evil plans.

Image: Ethan Aldridge

The heartless #faeries sometimes extract the #foison (= goodness, essence or life force) from our human food.

Outwardly the food looks the same, but there is no longer any nourishment within it.
Eat it at your peril.

Image: #BrianFroud

'Jack the Giantkiller' is a #Cornish #fairytale set during the reign of #KingArthur.

Jack killed his final victim at the Giant's Stone near #Tweedsmuir in the #Scottish Borders. But the mortally wounded #giant killed Jack before dying himself.

#folklore

Faeries haunt the places where the wild thyme grows.

It was one of the plants laid in the manger for the Christ-Child.

Do not bring it into the house, but prepare #thyme infusions outside.

#herblore #faerie
Image #BrianFroud

@GreenHillsHarp That’s a really good question, Charlie. Yes, Brentor Church is on the St Michael Line, but the new #archangelsway is a different route. It crosses Dartmoor between Brentor Church and our own parish church, #StMichael the Archangel here in #Chagford.

#Dartmoor #Pixie sighting:

"On a small piece of velvety turf, entirely surrounded by boulders, a throng of little creatures were assembled, dressed in fantastic costumes, laughing with glee.

A great number of them had joined hands, and were dancing merrily in a ring."

[1890]

The #dragon of Winlatter Rock in #Derbyshire was the #devil himself in disguise.

He was driven off by a monk making the sign of the cross. The impression of the monk's feet as can still be seen in the rock.