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The Nucklavee plagues the people living on the isles nearby. It is said that its foul, black breath is poisonous; it comes in on the sea-breeze, blighting crops, spreading illness, and killing livestock as it goes by. 3/5

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The Gytrash. One of the most menacing creatures in Northern English folklore. Said to be a gigantic black dog with eyes that shone red like glowing coals, it led unwary, lost travellers astray and to their doom.

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What do Jean Grey of the X-Men & Helen of Troy have in common?

Eidolon, ka, fetch, doppelgangers, spirit-doubles: a mythical plot device from Euripides to Goethe to Marvel.

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Minotaurs feature heavily as in and as described by Ovid, paints the creature as having the body of a man and the head and tail of a bull begot from a rather awkward encounter with a goddess and a sacrificial bull...

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The Dullahan is a headless rider in Irish mythology. He carries a whip made from a human spine, his wagon wheels are made from human thigh bones and its covering is dried flesh. When the Dullahan stops riding and calls a name that person will die immediately.

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Perseus rescuing Andromeda, who was chained to a rock as a sacrifice to the sea-monster Cetus, sent by Zeus to punish the kingdom. A Greek myth still popular in the Middle Ages: Christine de Pizan: Epistre d'Othea: BL ms Harley 4431 f.98v

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The Celtic Reed Month - 28 Oct to 24 Nov. The yellow iris has reed stems & thrives by marshes, ponds, fens etc. In Greek myth one of the goddess Iris’s tasks was to carry water in a ewer from the River Styx when any god had to take a solemn oath. Img: C. Barker

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THREAD for ’s + theme: Katabasis (descent to an underworld) is common in classical myth + lit, e.g. Odysseus, Aeneas, and Orpheus visit the Underworld. But this mythological theme is also prominent in fantasy literature:

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A depiction of a wood-sprite in his winter attire.

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To make money from magic, you needed a good story. A striking bio, like the c19th Irish 'fairy doctors' and fortune-tellers who said they'd spent years in the subterranean worlds of the wee folk.

'They were all gentleman there' one magician claimed, in 1837.

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The Dullahan is the Irish Headless Horseman. This Unseelie Fairy rides a black horse and holds his severed head under his arm. Whoever's name he calls out is said to die. Variations say he dumps blood on passersby. Gold may deter him. https://t.co/w0gDp2UbCY

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Fairies hid underground by day, deep in the round green hills. Eager listeners ears to the ground, heard their music. A piper, eager to learn such tunes, entered into the Picts' Knowe on the Scottish Borders. He never emerged, now it is known as Piper's Grave...

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- When Odysseus visited the the shade (ghost) of the seer Tiresias--a self-realized human who had lived years on Earth as a man and a woman--was the only one able to give the hero the advice he needed to return home. (Art: Füssli.)

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The ever-debated 'hollow earth' tells of Agartha. The subterranean world inside our planet, illuminated by a tiny sun; with mountains, forests & lakes. Where intelligent humanoids reside. Entrances exist at the poles & in caverns, honeycombed through the planet.

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This we should remember how much of our modern world is inspired by ancient tales, which monster based in folklore is your favourite? At the moment mine is the Chimera three headed beast of conflict.

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CALLICANTZAROS. Greek being & demon confined to the underworld. He only emerges for 12 days from 25th Dec to 7th Jan. The callicantzaros is therefore uncannily referred to in English as the Christmas Vampire.

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Psychopomps are creatures, spirits, angels, or deities in many religions whose responsibility is to escort newly deceased souls from Earth to the afterlife. Their role is to guide them.
'Souls on the Banks of the Acheron' by Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl, 1898

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The Romans believed there were several entrances to the One was Lake Avernus, which JMW Turner painted, with Aeneas consulting the Sibyl about how to make the descent to see his father (#Virgil, Aeneid 6)

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