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

#GothicSpring #OfDarkAndMacabre

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

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

In Irish fairy-lore, if you dropped food, it meant the fairies wanted it. For best luck, pick it up, have a nibble, then throw the rest to them...

#FairytaleTuesday 🎨E. Stuart Hardy

Amber was thought to be congealed sunlight. In Greek myth, it was formed from the tears of Phaeton's sisters who mourned his death once he had crashed the chariot of the sun...

#MythologyMonday
🎨 Fall of Phaeton - Gustave Moreau

On New Year's Eve, the rats around your house are listening. If they hear nothing said about them, they leave forever. But, if they hear the word rat, they take it as an invitation and return with all their friends...

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🎨Warwick Goble