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The Haunted Landscape: Magic and Monsters of the British Isles
23 November 2019



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Monsters include a dragon, fairies, Old Stinker the Werewolf and the Croglin Vampire.

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The a demon badger Broc Sidh terrorised residents of Inchiquin, killing men & cattle. The prayers of 6 priests were unable to subdue the beast but MacCreahy of Clare caught it and tossed it:

‘Deep in that forgotten mere
Among the tumbled fragments of the hills’

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My favourite Supernatural book when I was growing up was 'Vampires, Werewolves & Demons'. The chap in the middle is Eurynome, a medieval prince of death, who fed on human corpses. The colour pic shows some sort of demon party

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This on the theme of let me tell you the story of the 'Ginger Beast of Beckermet'. Cumbria's own mystery.

https://t.co/myI372OOYb

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Monopods (dwarflike creatures with a single foot) get an early mention in Aristophanes’ 413BC The Birds. Pliny the Elder in his Natural History (77CE) recounts travelers tales that these monsters are to be found in India.

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Yorkshire has its very own werewolf - Old Stinker. He is 8foot tall with red eyes, a human face and disgustingly bad breath (hence the name). Sighted since the 18thc, it was spotted again in 2016, prowling around an industrial estate near Hull

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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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