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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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Some Selkies draw their roots to Irish/Scottish folklore while some say it came from the Norse & Celtic mythology. They are said to be half-human and half seal.

They can shed their seal skin and transform into humans. They also sing beautifully in the water.

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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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𝗟𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗨𝗥𝗦𝗗𝗔𝗬 - 𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗔𝗥𝗞

Ultimately torn asunder by the Flood using Precursor star roads, the greater Ark was the Forerunner megastructure that created the first twelve Halo rings, of which only Zeta Halo remains.

https://t.co/OgxIdvVPe4

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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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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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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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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.

https://t.co/uTHQR30wit

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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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