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Greek Goddess Dike or Dice represented human justice - her mother Themis ruled over divine justice. She lived on earth during the Golden and Silver ages but despairing of humanity, left and took up residence in the sky #mythologymonday @mythologymonday

Capricious French and Swiss Elves The Lutins think of endless #tricks to tease and torment; whether in the guise of horses throwing their riders into a ditch, making seashells temporarily become gold or even appearing as giant spiders #FolkloreThursday @FolkloreThurs
🎨by Godo

Gwyn ap Nudd ruler of Annwn the Welsh Underworld escorted the souls of the dead there, accompanied by supernatural hounds, the Cŵn Annwn. The howling of the dogs foretold death to anyone who heard. They hunted lost souls in autumn & winter...@ClassicalMyths #MythologyMonday

Yorkshire has its very own werewolf - Old Stinker. He is 8foot tall with red eyes, a human face and disgustingly bad breath (hence the name). Sighted since the 18thc, it was spotted again in 2016, prowling around an industrial estate near Hull @FolkloreThurs #FolkloreThursday

Fairies hid underground by day, deep in the round green hills. Eager listeners ears to the ground, heard their music. A piper, eager to learn such tunes, entered into the Picts' Knowe on the Scottish Borders. He never emerged, now it is known as Piper's Grave... #FolkloreThursday

In Ulster, the cricket was called "gentle wee thing," the word gentle signifying fairy origin. Bad luck to harm one. The Irish believed crickets were hundreds of years old; and if we could understand, they would reveal the history of the world...
@FolkloreThurs #FolkloreThursday

An old superstition said if you saw a dead butterfly, it was a sure sign you would shed tears within a week...🦋
@FolkloreThurs #folklorethursday
🎨- Richard Doyle

In 1899 in Northern England, a newspaper reported that clothes moths were often called "ghosts" and each time one was killed, there was serious risk of a relative being injured...
🎨-public domain #FolkloreThursday @FolkloreThurs

From https://t.co/kilbtjUGM3 comes this political cartoon. The text on the site says it depicts: "Red Riding Hood as the people of Ireland, wolf as the landlords...and the “brave Irish woodman” as the hero coming to save the Irish from the villainous landlords. #FairyTaleTuesday

London illustrator Charles Robinson was the son of an illustrator, his two brothers were also illustrators (one was William Heath Robinson) He secured a place to study at The Royal Academy but hadn't enough money to attend. This is his Red Riding Hood c. 1910 #fairytaletuesday