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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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Today’s is about trees! The Hawthorn tree was connected with fairies and the Otherworld in Irish folklore and it was considered very bad luck to cut one down if it stood alone in a field.

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Trees were said & feared to be magic as their life outlasts ours. Similarly literary/cinematic trees' role is polarized: ethearal or deadly.
From C.S Lewis' wooden portal to Narnia & Tolkien's wise Treebeard to Burton's Tree of the Dead which is Gateway to Hell.

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The Woodwose (wild man of the woods) is a mythical figure that appeared in medieval Europe. Covered from head to toe in thick hair and often carrying a club they began to appear on English churches during the C12th. Photo © V. Worrall

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I’ve enjoyed your wisdom, but it’s time for me to leaf. This is Crystal signing off. Don’t “log” off just yet. will join at 6:30 BST for today’s last session. “Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world." ― Muir (Image: Rackham)

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Birch trees were thought to be a purifier, so bundles of birch twigs were used to sweep away old spirits, cementing its reputation as the species used to make witches brooms, or besoms.
My grandmother used to call me a besom. I presumed it was some kind of demon

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The Faerie Tree. Any lone tree standing in a field.Believed to be the gateway to the Sidhe, the ancestors of the Celts. Only one rule here, you can look but you better not touch, Bad luck for anyone who touches a Faerie Tree.

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WALKING TREE The Banyan tree, Ficus benghalensis, has uncanny aerial roots that anchor the tree to the ground and look like limbs so it famously looks like it is walking; ghost shield in it in Bengali folktales 🎨Bangladesh; Botanic Gardens, Durban

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The woodlands written by Tolkien are inner, liminal spaces. Therefore, entering them entails the dissolution of the order of the everyday. This is why forests in stories are the natural places for encountering the terrible and the wonderful.

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The relationship between the Fae and elder is as ancient as lore. They make staves, pipes, whistles and wands from this magic wood and your best chance of an encounter with them is under an elder bush or tree on Midsummer’s eve. But beware....🧚🏻‍♀️💥#FolkloreThursday

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