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When the first baby laughed for the first time, it's laugh broke into a thousand pieces, they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
~ J M Barrie ~

🎨 Susan B Pearse

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Long ago, folk believed faeries were invisible, except to cats; a cat sat staring at nothing was watching fairies. When a cat sat on a mother's lap, its purring was the sound of it spinning sleep, so that stealthy wee folk could abduct her child
🎨Isabel Watkins

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It's important to point if you are talking about a dog, child, cow. Otherwise the fairy that shares its name may turn up and replace it. The Good folk do not like being accidentally summoned by their names. Art: Arthur Rackham

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According to Ojibwe  Memegwaans is a mini humanoid who is terrified of adult humans; disappearing if they see one. However, they have a love for human children. Helping any child who is upset, injured, scared, or lonely; protecting them until help arrives.

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This is about ! In cornish, welsh and devon folklore, the Knocker would tap on the walls of mines and warn of or cause cave-ins. Bluecaps, in Northern folklore, appeared as flames and served a similar purpose.

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Leannán Sidhe (fairy mistress) is a fae spirit that seeks the love of human men. If they refuse her, she is their slave. If they are seduced, they are hers. She often takes young poets for lovers. She provides inspiration to these artists.

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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!” —William Butler Yeats 🧚🏻‍♀️

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✨🍀✨Four-leaved clovers are widely reputed to bring good luck - but carrying one also protects against enchantments and bestows the ability to see Faeries!

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To the Ancient Aztecs, Chaneques were tiny humanoid creatures, protecting nature. Attacking intruders with fright, so the soul would leave the body! If the victim didn't recover their soul in a specific ritual, they would die & the soul would be forever trapped!

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In certain parts of Ireland it is considered bad luck to disturb a Fairy Bower or a so called 'Sceach Gheal', usually a Hawthorn, where Fairies are supposed to congregate.

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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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