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The swan was said to protect children's' souls and to guide them to the Otherworld...

#FairyTaleTuesday

The plip plop call of the Satanic Nightjar was once attributed to the sound it made plucking out folks' eyes...

#FairytaleTuesday #OfDarkAndMacabre #GothicSpring 🎨Renata Grieco

The Fear Dearg (red man) also known as rat man is a Donegal trickster fairy phantom. If he shows up knocking on a cold night, let him in whatever you do, otherwise he may take away all the luck of the house...

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The Swan is said to sing only once, just before it dies - hence the expression a "swan-song"...

#FaustianFriday #GothicSpring 🎨Bauer

Bringing wild thyme into the house was thought to bring death to a family member...

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In Finnish lore, Ajatar is called the Devil of the Woods or the mother of the devil. They take dragon form and haunt the lonely forests spreading illness to any human who sees them...

#WyrdWednesday 🎨Tiepolo

Gan Ceanach is known as the love talker. A Northern Irish fairy with dark eyes and no shadow, birds went silent when he appeared in the lonely glens, seducing young maidens before vanishing, leaving them to pine to death...

#FairyTaleTuesday 🎨Pirner #ValentinesDay

Fairies travel in eddies of wind. In Gaelic, it is called "the people's puff of wind" -"oiteag sluaigh". By throwing one's left shoe, the Fairies must drop whatever they may be taking away...

#FolkloreThursday

It was believed storm petrels lived in the hearts of hurricanes, directing bad weather - in each bird, the soul of a dead mariner...

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🎨Engraving after John James Audubon

According to Lady Wilde, if a short cut was taken while carrying a corpse to the grave, the dead would be insulted and disturbed in the coffin...

#FaustianFriday 🎨Wiertz