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If taken ill, you may be 'elf-struck', shot with an elven arrow. In Cumbrian folklore, the elves got the arrows from faeries, who got them from mermaids.


art: Oyasumi

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2023-01-31

Update on this - not finished but at least the canvas is covered😂. Sorry about the wet paint shine! Oil on linen, 80 x 60cm.

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2023-01-28

Hello I'm umbria and I 90% of the time do digital art I've started to experiment with 3d. At the moment it's a bit slow due to health issues but I try lol here's some my favourite and most recent https://t.co/4MEgagiYyB

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2023-01-26

1/2 Just some of my favourite photos from the recent cold spell.
Beautiful scenes 🤩❄️

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2023-01-24

In the Solway Firth, a mermaid fell in love with a sailor whom she rescued when his ship ran aground. She slipped a gold ring on his finger and promised to return to him, but after many years of waiting, he died, alone.



Arthur Rackham

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2023-01-24

The Great Harrying of the North, 1069: In January, Northumbrian rebels converged on Durham, killing William's new appointee Robert de Comines and all but two of the Normans in the garrison. The king responded immediately. https://t.co/zeLA2RLj7w

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2023-01-24

Eldumbrian Mudsdale and Miller with her pincurchion!

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2023-01-22

In Cumbrian dialect, 'wiggen-tree' is the rowan tree. Plant a rowan tree in your garden to ward off evil influence, and provide a home for benevolent faeries


art: Arthur Rackham

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2023-01-16

Hi 👋

Eirik Bloodaxe

The dark lord of the Vikings, a cruel tyrant who killed three of his brothers. but he lost to the fourth in battle, after which he fled to Britain, where he became king of Northumbria

https://t.co/y9cumJQPdH

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2023-01-15


'Add a face to an everyday background'.
The odd one out...
Today's challenge that appeared in my inbox this morning was set by library staff & community connectors in Cumbria!
Many thanks to for organising.

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2023-01-06

I’m enjoying summer vibes whilst working on this piece…and dreaming of Spring! Hope you’ve not got the January blues yet!

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2023-01-03

Some of my portraits which are more about…how to put it🤔, our energetic interaction with our world… than about how we appear superficially. Inspired by thoughts, emotions, & ancestral & environmental connections.

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2022-12-30

December's

We have a family tradition of telling ghost stories over the Festive period. I write about it's origin, the Banshee encounter, and tell a few Cumbrian folk tales also
https://t.co/t2GbnlIC9S

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2022-12-22

Many Ulverston locals will avoid the eerie woods at Plumpton, and lurking in the water of the flooded iron mines nearby, lives Jenny Greenteeth. She's a 'river hag' who pulls children and the elderly into the water to drown them


artist: unknown

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2022-12-17

The 'Broon Man of the Moors and Mountains' is solitary dwarf who serves as the guardian of all wild animals. His dress is the colour of winter bracken and he sports red frizzled hair.
https://t.co/FmGSPy2FhX


art: Amanda Moffet

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2022-12-17

The natives of Renwick, Cumbria were once known as “bats” due to the monstrous creature that is said to have flown around their ruined church at night 🦇


art: Matthew Starbuck

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2022-12-16

Having a bad dream? A household Boggart will sneak into your bedroom at night and squeeze your big toe!
https://t.co/VuWsNHv4Wa

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2022-12-14