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Of all trees featured in #fairytales, the #hazel tree appears most often.
Its sweet nourishing nuts impart knowledge and wisdom.

#treelore #trees #folklore

The #Morrigan, Irish Goddess of Death and Destruction, persecuted Cuchulain for refusing her proffered love.

But at the end of all things, she became his friend, warned him before his last battle, and settled as a crow on his shoulder when he was dead.

Image: Adriana Zaroda

#Fedelma was a prophetess who dwelt in the #Faerie Mound of Croghan.

Her golden hair fell below her knees. She was clad in green.
She used a shuttle of pure gold to weave fabric upon a loom.

Image: #EleanorFortescueBrickdale
#folklore #Irish

The #harp has long been associated with #death and the #Celtic #Otherworld.

Chieftains were buried with a harp at their feet to act as a bridge to the afterlife.

#folklore
Image: The End of all Things, Maxmilian Pirner, 1887

"The fairies of the earth and the sea are mostly gentle and beautiful creatures who will do no harm if left alone to dance on the fairy raths in the moonlight to their own sweet music, undisturbed by mortals."

Lady Wilde, Ancient Legends of Ireland 1888

Art:Bartolomeo Giuliano

The Stoor Worm, a huge sea monster, terrorised the West
of #Scotland.
It was killed by burning peat thrust into its liver.
In its death throes, its teeth flew out and become the islands of #Orkney, #Shetland and the #Faroes.

All this was a long time ago.

#folklore

A #Devon #Dragon

A fiery dragon hath bynne often seene to flye between these hills in the night, whereby it is supposed ther is a great treasure hydd in each hill, and the dragon is the trusty treasurer and sure keeper thereof.

[Cadbury Castle & Dolbury Hill]
#FolkloreThursday

“I come from the Land of the Living, where there is neither death, nor sin, nor transgression.
We partake of feasts perpetual.
In a large hill we dwell, and hence we are called Aes Sidhe (People of the Hill)”

- Echtra Condla, #Irish #12thCentury

Image: #BrianFroud

Some say that Cwm Pwca, or Puck Valley, a part of the romantic glen of the Clydach, in Breconshire, is the original scene of the Midsummer Night's Dream, a fancy as light and airy as Puck himself.

#faery #Wales

In the dim kingdom there is a great abundance of all excellent things. There is more love there than upon the earth. There is more dancing there than upon the earth.
There is more treasure there than upon the earth.

#faerie #Yeats
Image: #BrianFroud