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The pwca is the black-furred Welsh version of the pooka - a forest goblin trickster. Sometimes the pwca uses a magic candle to lead travelers off the path, and other times it turns into a black animal, such a horse, and entices travelers to try to catch them.
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She is loosely clad from neck to foot
In a mantel of Moss from the Maple's root,
& like the Lichen grey on its stem that grows
Is the hair that over her mantle flows.
–Archibald Maclaren
In German lore the Buschgroßmutter is leader of the female forest spirits.
Christiaan Huygens, credited as the inventor of the Magic Lantern, was born #OTD 1629. A lifelong sufferer of severe depression & melancholy, his original sketches for magic lantern projection were of Death removing its head.
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Wherever and whenever a seed sprouts, a Flower Fairy baby is born. From snow drops to blackthorns, lilacs to weeping willows, each fairy is responsible for looking after their own plant and keeping it strong and healthy for years to come. #FolkloreThursday🧚🏻♀️
🎨Cicely Mary Barker
While we mosr commonly know Coyote from the folk tales that come to us via indigenous Southwestern groups, this version is part of a larger trickster continuum. Coyote existed among the Aztecs as Huehuecóyotl, Old Coyote of the song and mischief himself. #FolkloreThursday
"Indai Antok Genok' is said to be one of the slaves of Simpulang Gana, the God of Earth, who could transform herself into a porcupine and pay visits to people’s garden to attack the vegetables planted in the garden. #FolkloreThursday #DayakIbanFolklore
strelitzia - florid floret
"Though these colorful creatures are usually full of cheer, they aren't afraid to use their needle-like claws when they get angry."
In Cumbrian dialect, 'wiggen-tree' is the rowan tree. Plant a rowan tree in your garden to ward off evil influence, and provide a home for benevolent faeries
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art: Arthur Rackham