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In the children's tale of Cinderella, the existence of the glass slippers has remained an unexplained error in oral transmission; in the earlier versions, the slippers were made of squirrel fur! 🐿️

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🌿👶🌿In the Scottish Highlands, a newborn baby would be given sap from a green stick of Ash (held in a fire till the sap oozed out then mixed with honey) as its first food, to give the child strength and to protect it from being bewitched or stolen by Faeries.

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Mine too, along with Oranges and Lemons. Another playground favourite and in the canon of

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In German folklore,the Roggenmuhme ("rye aunt") is a corn demon. Her bosoms are filled with tar, and may end in tips of igneous iron. She is known for stealing children who are looking for cornflowers. She also replaces children with changelings
Igor Krstic

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Boobrie
A gigantic black bird, which is supposed to have lived in the lochs of Argyllshire. It had webbed feet and fed on cattle.

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That's it for another amazing 🧜‍♀️
This week's theme was the lore of and A personal favourite, was the one about litterers being obliterated by lightning. Screw those guys! This is wishing you all an epic week (img J. Waterhouse 1893)

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The Obol was an ancient greek coin made of bronze, copper or silver and popular for funerary use. Deceased were buried with obol coins in their mouth to pay the ferryman Charon for the passage across the rivers Styx or Acheron.

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... for Nimrodel flows into Silverlode, that Elves call Celebrant, + Celebrant into Anduin the Great, + Anduin flows into the Bay of Belfalas whence the Elves of Lórien set sail. But neither Nimrodel nor Amroth came ever back.”

Art: Līga Kļaviņa

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Amroth dived into the sea in a attempt to swim back to his beloved, and his fate is also unknown. But Legolas concludes:


Art: Olga Kukhtenkova

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Her lover Amroth waited for her in “havens grey” but a storm set the ship loose + on its way to Valinor. Of Nimrodel we only hear that she was never seen before, though there is a stream that bears her name.

Art:

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I think it was the inspiration for the story of Nimrodel and Amroth in The Legolas speaks of the Elven-maid Nimrodel, who got lost on her way to the west shores of Middle-earth.


Art: Julian Bauer

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...but he directed his water across the sea towards the west to reach her + mingle his waters with hers. This is, of course, a typical story of an amorous God pursuing an unwilling nymph, but was retold in more romantic terms in the 19th-c and...

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Posting this spread which captures the Winter Sun beautifully ☀️ Taken from The Woodcutter's Tale by Carol Florence & illustrated by Emily Ford

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In archaic religions sacred rivers, ponds, wells were believed to lead to the underground womb of Mother Hel, also known as Dame Holle, the mother of all the children on earth. (Barbara Walker's The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets)

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Vodenjak = water spirit and the Lord of water, resides in his crystal palace at the bottom of a river or stream. Male, with shapeshifting abilities which he uses to lure victims. Found in folklore of most Slavic nations (Vodnik/Vodyanoy). Image: Ivan Bilibin

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In Serbian & Slavic mythology, all things water (rivers, streams, wells, watermills) hold a special mythical meaning, hard to know where to start! Let's begin with watermills = gathering places for spirits and demons during nighttime

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River Fae, watercolour on hotpressed paper🌿
For this week's theme, folklore of wells and rivers

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Momotaro is a hero of Japanese folklore. He was found by a childless couple, inside a peach, floating down a river. He grew up and embarked on a quest, defeating a band of demons with the help of a talking dog, a monkey and a pheasant.

Image: Wikipedia commons.

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