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Hello again, #FolkloreThursday! This is Crystal @HistoriumU logging on for another magical session. Thanks to @MythCrafts for hosting before our break. Our theme this week is the folklore of fairies, the fae and little people! I can’t wait to share your tweets! (Img: Robert Bell)
#FolkloreThursday While early medieval accounts portrayed the Wild Hunt as demonic, later romances imagined it as a host of fairies. English leaders of the Hunt included King Arthur, Herne the Hunter, and King Herla https://t.co/hoMcZLnQmW
🎨Peter Nicolai Arbo & George Cruikshank
#FolkloreThursday Fairies Rescuing a Bird from a Cage, Margaret Tempest.
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In 1862 two men who were transporting timber in Wales saw fifty fairy-like figures dancing near a hill before the figures vanished. Moments later, these fairies reappeared and danced in a circle. Then, one by one they disappeared in the ground.
🎨Diefenbach
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In Grimm's story a wise neighbor gives a stricken new mother advice on how to get rid of a suspected Changeling: "Boil water in an eggshell, this will make it laugh. Once it laughs, it can no longer stay in this world."
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"I saw a procession of creatures of the size and colour of green and grey grasshoppers, bearing a body laid out on a rose leaf, which they buried with songs... It was a fairy funeral." (William Blake, #DOTD 1827)
🖼️ M. Pirner "Funeral of a Fairy" (1888)
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When it comes to illustrating the little people of Ye Olde Scandinavia, Jenny Nyström was best. #FolkloreThursday https://t.co/JAIFu9bOLB
Two feet tall with a massive head and wrinkled skin, a knocker is a sight to see in the mines of Cornwall and Devon. A good sight, too: they beckon to veins of rich minerals and warn of incoming disasters when mines collapse. Treat them well. #FolkloreThursday
Every Friday, fairies make time to comb and tidy the beards of goats. 🐐 And this must be exhausting because on Saturdays they take the whole day off. 🧚🏼♀️
🎨Resting Goats, Jacques-Joseph Lecurieux, 1840. #FolkloreThursdays
Oft times Faeries are malevolent, but at others they just seem accidentally cruel.
A Galway farmer played hurling with the Fae one night. He returned the next morning to find that years had passed, he was dead and his family had even buried his corpse!
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ELFLAND or Alfheim 'elf-home' is associated with the land of the dead in folklore; no sun or moon only perpetual twilight. Mortals who enter are only released if they are able to perform some task of value to the fae, W. Henderson, 1897🎨 Gustave Doré, 1870 #FolkloreThursday
In the Scottish ballad of Tam Lin, the Fairy Queen is a terrible, seductive figure who pays a tithe to Hell in the form of a soul every 7 years. This echoes Christian lore that fairies were fallen angels neither good enough for heaven nor evil enough for Hell #FolkloreThursday
Before you start building a new home put a pile of rocks or stakes at the potential corners. If you return & the markers are disturbed, pick a different site; the fae aren't happy. They may even move your stakes to the spot they'd prefer you build. #FolkloreThursday
Art: A. Lee
SKILLYWIDDEN The wonderful name of a Pixie caught by a farmer in Trerbridge in #Cornwall. It is one of only a few captured fae that have ever been documented; recorded in Hunt's Popular Romances of the West of England, 1865 #FolkloreThursday 🎨Cornish Piskies Brian Froud
Illustrator Cicely Mary Barker was largely self-taught due to ill health.
Her Flower Fairies combined botanical sketches with characterful life drawings of local children.
Here her portrait of ‘The Garden Boy’ becomes the watchful Elm #Fairy
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The Cù Sìth "faery dog" is a huge dark-green hound that roams the wilds of Scotland. He howls three times to signal death - to escape, you have to reach safety before the third howl, but if you hear the third you'd be rooted to the spot and die from terror. #FolkloreThursday
Today's #FolkloreThursday theme is fairies and other fey creatures so let me introduce you to some of mine 😁
little creatures, gather 'round! this #folklorethursday theme is my jam 🌱
In 1884 a mail-cart driver from the Isle of Man had a fascinating tale to tell. He was beset by a troop of fairies who threw his mail-bags on the road and danced around them. This went on until daybreak and the poor man was late for work.
🎨Bartolomeo Giuliano
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