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The straight-talking, Welsh water fairy The Lady of Llyn y Fan Fach, gives us a Celtic schooling in
boundaries and consequences. Find more about this uncompromising woman in Warriors, Witches, Women. https://t.co/UlMYieZcUw

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“He promised to buy me a length of blue ribbon…”
Ribbon was a common lover’s gift; when bought at fairs called a ‘fairing’. A blue ribbon refers to a medieval symbolism of colour in which blue represents loyalty, constancy, faithfulness and truth.

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Aka manto comes to the school bathroom when there's no paper and asks "Do you want red paper or blue?" If you say red you're bloodily slashed to death, if you say blue all your blood is sucked out and you're left dead and blue on the floor art

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Aboriginal Australian myth, tells of the Serpent. The colorful creator/giver of life, due to its connection with water. For is life! Lore has it, a Wagilag sister gave birth & her blood flowed into the Rainbow Serpent's waterhole, birthing life.

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In Ancient Egyptian lore HATHOR was a goddess who acted as the Eye of Ra (Ra's feminine counterpart)&she represented music, dance, joy, love & maternal care. She also exemplified femininity & helped deceased souls to transition to the afterlife

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The legend of the Huna people, tells of the One day, a girl was saved by puffins. Her father found out & offered canoes of riches to get her back. Until her mom offered old white hair & they agreed. Each put a white hair in its head, there to this day.

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Xōchipilli is the Aztec god of The Flower Prince, patron of writing, painting, dance, and games, was married to Mayahuel, a human woman.

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The Greek goddess Iris, was a messenger of the gods before Hermes, a special envoy of Hera, and the personification of the rainbow. Iris was the daughter of a marine god Thaumas the wondrous, and a cloud goddess, Amber.

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in September of 1609 Henry Hudson and crew while exploring the Catskill Mts claimed to have come across a party of metallurgist gnomes who shared a drink ( which they called eldritch ale) that temporarily transformed some of the crew into Gnomes as well

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The Greek muses were the quintessential embodiment of arts, from music to poetry and creativity, often depicted in vivid colours. Here is a painting entitled "The Muses Melpomene, Erato, and Polyhymnia" by Eustache Le Sueur.

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We picked 4 colourful illustrations from our favourite tales for this week's > Jessie Willcox Smith 'Heidi', Dugald Stewart Walker 'The Nightingale', Virginia Frances Sterrett 'The Wild Boar', Harry Clarke 'The Garden of Paradise.' https://t.co/zBADHbInou ✨🌈

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BLUE FAIRY Kindly saviour of wayward puppet Pinocchio 1883; human-sized, not diminutive, she has a mysterious history, appearing first as a spectre child with blue hair; re-imagined under water in A.I. (2001) below, an uncanny vision of discarded robot boy David

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First preview of my new map about legends & ghosts connected with the Brontes & Haworth moors. Ive also tried to convey the energy & feel of the landscape, hills & valleys. It is accurate for use as a map but only uses places that have existed for over 200 years

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In the Language of Flowers, Acanthus was said to represent art or artfulness in a bouquet.

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Red - the witch hue

Old Mother Redcap. Archetypal English folk witch, with a long history & many homes. Jacobean Londoners told tales of her. So did folks in 1800s Derbyshire. Pubs were named after her in Sheffield & Luton, til lately. Blackburn still has one.

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Tam Lin, Scottish tale of bravery by a lady who encounters a mysterious man in a forest. She finds herself pregnant with his child, and learns he is captive to the faeries. She manages to find and rescues him, angering the Faerie Queen.



📷~shadowscapes

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