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“Origins” & our planned spin-offs will celebrate Scottish culture, mythology and history, sharing it with the world and telling new and exciting stories to audiences of all ages ⚔️🧝🏼‍♀️🐉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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2022-06-24

The Seelie & Unseelie are the light & dark courts of the Fae respectively. Seelie even shares a root with the Scottish word for "happy." But don't let that fool you, the Seelie are just as dangerous as their more overtly destructive counterparts. Art: B. Froud

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2022-06-23

A set of wonderful paintings from Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, a magnificent play providing hints into the mysterious and beautiful fairy kingdom.



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2022-06-23

Many have been wary of using the word “fairy” – since at least the 17th century it has been believed a taboo word across the British Isles and a term of offence, meaning malicious imp. Use “Good People” instead, or perhaps risk their wrath...

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2022-06-23

My mind is wandering
as I imagine the possibilities.

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"Songe d'une nuit d'été"...(Gustave Doré) 🧚🖤✨ 👨‍🎨


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2022-06-23

We commissioned to create a concept banner for our animated series, “Quest of the Laoich”, and Rachael Hogg from to create concept art of our protagonist, Mage McKenzie. Support our projects at https://t.co/rarr1zFdPc

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2022-06-23

The gean-cánach, the 'love talker', is a male faerie in Irish myth similar to a leprechaun. He is known for seducing men and women, but is particularly fond of shepherds and milkmaids.



art: Daemon Love by Maximilian Pirner

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2022-06-23

Along Hardknott Pass, Cumbria’s Faerie King Eveling holds his court. He's an intriguing figure, his name may be connected to the Avalon of Athurian legend



La Mort d'Arthur by James Archer 1860

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2022-06-23

Some Celtic legends claim that Aine, goddess of the sun, the moon, wealth, love, and summer, mated with human men to create the first race of fairies.

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2022-06-23


CHANGELING🧚‍♂️
..a mortal child is taken back to the realm of the fairies to be raised as theirs. Titania, Queen of the fairies, agrees to raise the boy out of love for his mother
"She never had so sweet a changeling.."
A Midsummer Night's Dream

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2022-06-23

Today, on the first Thursday of Green Week, is the day when the Rusalki celebrate their Easter festival on the banks of the waters of some regions.

🎨 Bartolomeo Giuliano

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2022-06-17

Flower Fairies are tiny creatures (the biggest is only 20cm tall) that live in the tree tops, marshes, forest floor, wayside and gardens.

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📷’The Lilac Fairy’ from Cicely Mary Barker's The Complete Book of the Flower Fairies.

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2022-06-17

This print by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1882) is titled 'Midair Collision' and depicts two tengu (half-bird half-human with noses colliding. The left tengu carries a letter box of the Edo era and the other carries a bag of the new postal system...

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2022-06-16

Ancient Greeks believed we all have a predetermined destiny.
The three Moirai, or Fates represented the cycle of life - birth, life, and death. The Moirai appeared within three days of someone's birth to decide their fate. More: https://t.co/GCvG8vYCPj

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2022-06-16

Welsh Arthurian hero Culhwch was born in the wilderness as his mother was insane, living as a wild animal. A stampeding herd of pigs shocked the woman back to sanity and caused her to give birth. She christened her son "Culhwch" ("pig run") to honor the event.

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2022-06-16

It is said that the alojas, water fairies of Catalan folklore who sometimes take the shape of dippers, will marry good-hearted men. They'll leave if their nature is exposed, but still will never fail to secretly arrive each night to comb their children's hair.#FolkloreThursday

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2022-06-16

Ayakashi in Japanese literally means, "strange phenomenon of the sea," and is a term used for yokai who appear in the liminal spaces between the surface of the sea/ocean and the air.

https://t.co/uTHQR30wit

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2022-06-10

Peony seed necklaces were used to protect children being kidnapped by fairies, although with the limited fairy contact today this practice is rarely used.
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🎨 Elizabeth Myakisheva

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2022-06-10