# ogom2021 ogomcon2021 amidsummernightsdream wyrdwednesday fairytaletuesday stpatricksday

butterfly winged depictions of fairies links fairies as spirits of the dead as the butterfly is often considered the mythical shape by the soul following death

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2021-04-09

Next we have our plenary by Dr Sam George on 'Fairy Lepidoptera: The Dark History of Butterfly-Winged Fae'

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2021-04-09

- on the dangers of eating fairy fruit in Lud-in-the-mist. The magical fruit is stored in coffins - emerald green raspberries, tawny grapes and crimson grapes...

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2021-04-09

Next up the incomparable on 'Fairy Carnival: Music, Dance, and food in the re-enchantment if modernity from Hope Mirlees's Lud-in-the-mist to paranormal romance'

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2021-04-09

Getting ready for day two of conference by Yesterday was fabulous and today looks even better.

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2021-04-09

Next in Eco Faery 1 we have Dr Kaja Franck on 'No weapon forged by mortal or get can harm the Iron King': imagining the environmental apocalypse in Julia Kagawa's Iron Fey series'


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2021-04-08

NYMPHOLEPSY: A word for fairy abduction taken from Classical culture. (Image: Arthur Rackham, 1933, for Christina Rossetti's 'Goblin Market')

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2021-04-08

"Anatomy of Mélusine" by French illustrator Camille Renversade, inspired by late 19th-century Deyrolle school boards

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2021-04-08

Preparing my paper on 's "A Ride Through Faerie" for You can read the poem here: https://t.co/NK3tXtCdGq

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2021-04-03

Vivien Leigh as Titania in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", 1937 https://t.co/xCStGPf6yc

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2021-04-03

FAIRY COURTESAN Fuseli's Gothic vision of is full of menace. Titania & Bottom in his asses' head, mingle with a hooded midnight hag clutching a changeling and a fairy courtesan with her victim, an old man on a chain

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2021-03-31

FAIRY KEYNOTE I'll be presenting on 'Fairy Lepidoptera: The dark history of butterfly-winged Fae' Conference 8-11 April How did fairies get their butterfly wings & how did they come to be associated with the dead? https://t.co/bqQr1JxA2I

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2021-03-27

"Dragonfly wings buzzed from it's shoulders, colours constantly changing like oil on water. It's tiny face flashed him a warm, friendly toothpaste smile, welcoming eyes, feline amber under the small curling horns at it's brow.
“Hello my Duncan”

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2021-03-23

FAIRY RINGS Upon entering an elf ring or sorcerer’s circle of mushrooms you will become invisible & be made to dance around until you die of exhaustion. Fairy rings can uncannily appear in graveyards🎨W. H. Sullivan; graveyard ring

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2021-03-23

"I have,' said Blake, 'but not before last night. I was walking alone in my garden, there was great stillness among the branches and flowers and more than common sweetness in the air..." (Life of Blake)

Maxmilián Pirner saw a fairy funeral, too.

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2021-03-17

“Do they die? Blake saw a fairy’s funeral; but in Ireland we say they are immortal."

—W.B. Yeats

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2021-03-17

DEARG-DUE Irish Vampiric Fairy or 'Red Blood Sucker'; thought to be influential on Le Fanu's female vampire 'Carmilla' 1871 🎨Images: Michael Thomas; Arthur Wardle

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2021-03-10

FAIRIES BEHAVING BADLY Armed fae are seen warring with bats for their 'leathern wings', killing caterpillars as 'canker' & spearing a 'red hipped humble bee' in A Midsummer Night's Dream ills Arthur Rackham 1908. Hey fairies leave those bats & bees alone!

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2021-03-02

GOTHIC FAIRIES Fuseli's Gothic vision of A Midsummer Nights Dream is full of menace. Titania & Bottom mingle with a hooded midnight hag clutching a changeling, a Fairy Courtesan with her victim, an old man, held on a chain & a fairy child with a proboscis

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2021-03-02

A Midsummer Night's Dream by Gustave Doré c1870

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2021-02-25