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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...

#FairyTaleTuesday @FairyTale_Tues
🎨Warwick Goble

Christmas Ghosts....🎨John Leech.
#FairytaleTuesday #GothicAdvent #Ghosts

The Ahiarmiut people told the story of Paija, a cannibal spirit with one leg, and flowing, black hair. She hunted in the long winter nights, looking for those caught in blizzards to devour...

🎨Aleks Sennwald
#GothicAdvent #OfDarkAndMacabre

Ardat Lili, is a wild-haired, winged, screech owl demon of the night, her name means Maid of Desolation. She harms all humans she meets, enticing them to the lonely places to attack them...
#FolkloreThursday #OfDarkAndMacabre
🎨Edvard Munch

Autumn gave golden fruit to every garden, but to the Giant's garden she gave none. 'He is too selfish,' she said. So it was always Winter there, and the North Wind, and the Hail, and the Frost, and the Snow danced about through the trees.

#FaustianFriday 🎨Lisbeth Zwerger

The Princess and the Troll - John Bauer

#FairyTaleTuesday

Mermaids were often seen dancing on the waves before storms...

#FolkloreThursday

In parts of England, an onion was thrown after the bride at her wedding to ward off the Evil Eye...

#FolkloreThursday