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#FairyTaleTuesday
PRINCESS AND THE PEA
A prince who wanted to find a real princess to marry, found her after his mother slipped a pea in below 20 mattresses & had princesses sleep on them overnight. The real princess woke up the next day from a sleepless night & bruised.

#FairyTaleTuesday
HARPIES (Greek Myth)
by Virgil: Bird-bodied, girl-faced things they are; abominable their droppings, their hands are talons, their faces haggard with hunger insatiable.
By Aeschylus: they snore with repulsive breaths, they drip from their eyes hateful drops.

#FairyTaleTuesday
Ashrays, (Water Lovers), are translucent water creatures that are often mistaken for sea ghosts. They can be either gender & are only under water. They're completely nocturnal. If captured & exposed to sunlight ashrays melt and only a puddle of water remains.

#FaustianFriday
Bluebeard marries many women who end up missing. His final bride enters a secret room in the house & discovers the corpses of his previous wives. Through trickery, she & her siblings end up killing Bluebeard & she ends up a wealthy widow, marrying for love.

#FolkloreThursday
"The Monk", a Gothic work of fiction, published in 1796 by Matthew Lewis, tells the tale of Ambrosio, a monk tempted into sin who enters into a tailspin of increasing carnal desire & murder. He loses his eternal salvation & his life at the hands of the devil.

#SuperstitionSat
IRISH SUPERSTITIONS
A fisherman that meets a woman with red hair will have a bad catch that day.

🎨Maybe this haircolor is auburn..in which case the catch will be promising....yes?

Before we were born, our souls had wings,
Our arms intertwined, as we glided
& swept the heavens. Flying
o'er mountain terrain, oceans blue,
Glistening sea-cliffs, & milky mist.
We laughed & loved, never apart were we
Until incarnated on earth,
where we purposed, separately.

#FolkloreThursday
Clytie fell in love with sun god Apollo, who at 1st was interested, but then he tired of her. She sat, day after day, slowly turning her head to watch Apollo move across the sky in his sun chariot. Eventually, the gods pitied her & turned her into a sunflower.

#FaustianFriday
SATYR
In Greek mythology, a satyr is a male nature spirit with the upper body of a human, and lower body of a goat or horse. They have bestial faces & snub noses. They were ribald, loved wine, music, dancing & women (with whom they were often unsuccessful with).

#FolkloreThursday
BIRTH OF HELEN OF TROY
Helen was Zeus' daughter. In the form of a swan, the king of gods was chased by an eagle, and sought refuge with Leda. The swan gained her affection, and the two mated. Leda then produced an egg, from which Helen emerged.