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#FairyTaleTuesday Favourite bedtime stories Rapunzel, with wonderful illustrations by Gordon Laite, and the Ladybird Beauty and the Beast with illustrations from the great Eric Winter @EnchantedEzine

#WyrdWednesday King Herla and his men joined a great party at the court of the fae. When they tried to return home they found that 300 years had passed, & the men who tried to dismount turned to dust. Doomed to continue forever, Herla & his men ride still, as the Wild Hunt

#MythologyMonday The Isle of Avalon is associated with Glastonbury Tor. In Arthurian legend, Arthur was taken there by Morgan Le Fay & The Lady of the Lake after his last battle. Some say he sleeps there, waiting to return, others that he died and was buried at Glastonbury Abbey

#WyrdWednesday Chanctonbury Ring is a gateway or portal to the other. An Iron Age fort & a Roman temple, for centuries strange encounters have been reported. Run round the hill 7 times & the devil may bargain for your soul with food, fairies dance at midsummer, & UFOs are sighted

#MythologyMonday In Lithuania the tradition of singing Sutartinés, polyphonic folk songs, is said to have been passed down directly from fairies, and the old Gods. Lithuania was the last place in Europe to be Christianised, but some of the old pagan traditions still stand.

#FolkloreThursday Morgan Le Fay is the villain in many Arthurian tales, attempting to thwart Arthur & seduce Lancelot. Sicilian myth places her enchanted castle near Mt Etna where sea mirages are named Fata Morgana. But modern pagans & feminists claim her back as a Celtic Goddess

#WyrdWednesday the winter ghost story pre-dates the modern Christmas, with short days & long nights this was always a time when the dead feel close. But was the Victorian love of Christmas ghosts helped by the flicker of shadowy new gaslights giving off hallucinogenic vapours?

#FairyTaleTuesday Rapunzel is named for the vegetable growing in the Witch's garden which her mother so covets. These Gordon Laite illustrations show the witch as a pipe-smoking, red-eyed fiend with her cat familiar, and even show the radish roots of the rapunzel @EnchantedEzine

#FolkloreThursday Charles Dickens died in 1870, leaving unfinished "The Mystery of Edwin Drood". In 1873 an unknown US publisher, T P James, claimed to have been visited by Dickens' ghost who dictated the ending.Believers in the subsequent ghost written book included Conan Doyle.

#MythologyMonday A loom is a mythical object. Calypso's loom weaves forgetfulness so that Odysseus stays on her island. Fairy tale weavers & spinners turn straw into gold & when the Lady of Shalott falls in love with Lancelot & leaves her loom she brings a curse down upon herself