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🌿🍏🌿When harvesting apples it is traditional to leave at least one fruit on the tree as a gift for the Fae.

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Boggarts: malevolent form of Fae from the English East Midlands said to inhabit houses and sheds where they sour milk and render animals barren. More often they live in geographical features like hills, dales or quarries, often encoutnered on rambles

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A Hob Lantern for this week’s theme — widespread light-bearing fae that lure the unwary traveller from their path through the marsh. Such bog dwellers have many names, including Nimble men (Scot.), Hinky-punk (Westcountry) and of course will-‘o-the-wisp.

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✨Skíðblaðnir ;Legendary Magical,#AncientShip, “assembled by dwarves & elves from thin pieces of wood;” the ship could sail & also fly; w/many parts and w/such craftsmanship that, when not needed at sea, may be folded up like cloth and placed into one's pocket!”

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The Pryor Mountains in Montana, USA are home to a ferocious race of little people, that the Crow Nation call the Nirumbee. They impart spiritual wisdom, teach the ways of medicine & healing to medicine men, and help shape young boys into great chiefs.

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"Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!" (W.B. Yeats)

On a more sombre note, there's the sluagh, the host of restless dead turned fae. They certainly dance, too, though

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Thanks for a fantastic morning! This is signing off now, but will be back in just 60 minutes for more folklore of the folk!
(Img: Richard Doyle, 1870)

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The Tailor of Gloucester by was based on a true incident.
A tailor named Pritchard, making a suit for the new mayor, returned to his shop to find the suit finished save for one buttonhole. He encouraged the belief that it was fairy work.

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This is the perfect day to share Yeats' magnificent poem The Hosting of the Sidhe. I love this illustration by Shona Shirley Macdonald. And The Waterboys do a great version set to music: https://t.co/pE0rnSnOxf

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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 covertly destructive counterparts. Art: B. Froud

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'Calf, goat and sheep in partnership with the lion'

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This series of tiles have been attributed to Moyr Smith who was an arts and crafts designer.

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A for a fairy:
A fairy went a-marketing
She bought a little mouse
To take her tiny messages
To keep her tiny house.
All day she kept its busy feet
Pit-patting to & fro
And then she kissed its tiny ears
Thanked it & let it go.
(🖋️R Fyleman 🎨CM Barker)

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Amelia Jane Murray, Lady Oswald, popularised the diminutive, benign, child-friendly image of 1820s

Here are some examples for today's theme, of

have a fairy fine day

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In Iroquois lore the Jogah are Little People, visible only to children & elders, that protect the natural world. They leave bowl-shapes in the earth for offerings of tobacco & fingernails & appear to humans as a robin signifying good news or an owl for a warning

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In C19th Ireland, youngsters deemed fairies or 'changelings' could be beaten, burnt, poisoned with foxgloves or drowned.

Bridget Cleary is the famous case. But there were other, less widely reported fairy assaults & deaths. A dark side of magical belief...

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DARE YOU ENTER A FAIRY RING? Upon entering a ring, elf circle, or pixie ring, you may become invisible & will be made to dance until you die of exhaustion 🎨uncanny fairy ring St Mary's Churchyard, Hartley Wespall; William Holmes Sullivan

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In Scottish folklore, the Unseelie Court were darkly-inclined fairies.They were thought to appear at night and assault travelers, often carrying them through the air and beating them. They were seen as closely allied with witches.

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