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"Wearing the colour green is a sign that the person or thing so indicated is given over to the Elves."

- Sabine Baring-Gould, 1913
#Lewtrenchard #DevonCountyShow

Art: Pauline Marshall

Green, ever an ominous colour, must on no account be worn at a wedding. The #faeries, whose chosen colour it is, would resent the insult.

The bride in "gown of green" is liable to be carried off to one of their underground abodes.

#folklore

The #Scottish brownie is a personage of small stature and wrinkled visage.

He is attached to certain families with whom he resides, even for centuries, helping with chores.

He expects to be paid with a bowl of cream or some fresh honeycomb.

Image: #JoanLlopisDoménech
#folklore

@lady_moffat @brotherrabbitlt @plunderedart @FolkloreSociety @folk_horror @FolkloreThurs @MelanieJaxn @LadyTeapots @JJ9828 @HaggardHawks @TheBloggess @HistoryColorado @ABCbirds Thank you Salena! So kind. Have a great weekend to you all.

A London #MayDay

What a gay scene it must have been in jolly old London, when the doors were decorated with flowering branches, and every hat was decked with hawthorn.

The Morris Dancers and all the other fantastic masks and revellers performed their antics about the maypole."

23rd April: #StGeorgesDay2021

In #Leicester, the 'Riding of the George' was once a major solemnity of the city.

Inhabitants were bound to attend to 'ride against the king' for 'the pleasure of the mayor and worship of the town.'

BADB
= #Irish war goddess in the form of a crow.

"In tales of war and battle, the Badb is always represented as foreshadowing, by its cries, the extent of the carnage about to take place, or the death of some eminent personage."

Image: John McCambridge

#Oisin is a poet and hero in #Irish myth who spent 300 years in the Land of Youth.

This place - Tir nan Og - is a land of unceasing delight, of flowers, treasures, honey and wine, of sweet harpers and eternal summer .

Image: François Gérard
#Faerie

#GUIS (plural geasa)

a magical prohibition particularly applying to heroes or kings who are cursed to die if they break it.

eg: Diarmuid is under guis never to hunt boar. He dies when tricked into doing so.

Image: Katherine Soutar
#Celtic

The ‘good people’ once danced in the meadows between #Stowmarket and #BuryStEdmunds.

Eyewitness accounts from the #19thCentury describe them as 3ft tall, sparkling from head to foot.

Now the busy A14 road thunders between the two towns; the #faeries are seen no more.

#folklore