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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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.

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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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The devilfish in Egyptian waters, cartoon, Punch, 1888

Recently, I am fascinated with political/satirical and also astonished at the recurrence of🐙 as visual tools for it.
This shows John Bull, the personification of the 🇬🇧, spreading over.

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⛈️🐈‍⬛⛈️Ship's Cats were always well cared for as it was said they could raise storms using magic held in their tails!

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“He is lost to the forest,
Like a summer-dried fountain,
When our need was the sorest.
The font reappearing
From the raindrops shall borrow,
But to us comes no cheering,
To Duncan no morrow!" (Scott "Coronach")

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Sailors believed a shark was able to scent a victim, and would follow a ship for miles, in which a dead body lay...

🎨Winslow Homer

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Fergus mac Leda had magical water boots and explored the rivers of Ireland. He met such a scary river horse that his face stuck in an expression of horror. Only a king with no blemishes could rule Ireland so he slayed the horse and his face became serene again.

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Ukiyoe prints often depicted in scenes from and/or kabuki plays. This one by Nansuitei Yoshiyuki (1863) depicts actors Fujikawa Tomokichi III (right) as the spirit of a monster serpent, and Onoe Tamizo II (left) as Yurugi Saemon.

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