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#FaustianFriday 'And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth.'
— (Rev. 12:3–4, KJV)
🎨William Blake
In the tale "The Girl Who Changed Her Fate" a girl is cursed w/ a bad fate & so everything she does ends badly. So, she climbs a mountain where all the fates live & gives a gift to hers - which is ragged & wild - & by doing so restores her relationship with it. #FaustianFriday
“The sheep shall eat the men.” During the Clearances, families were driven from the Highlands by the landowners & the land they farmed given over to the grazing of sheep. North Sea oil was also predicted: “A black rain will bring riches to Aberdeen.” #FaustianFriday
Amabie has become well known over the past few years for its ability to protect people from disease, but it is also said to deliver prophecies about good harvests. Often appearing as a glowing light out to sea, it has long hair, three legs, a beak and the...
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King of Ulster's chief druid, Cathbad, prophesied that an unborn Deirdre would be the most beautiful girl in Ireland. So...warrior would kill warrior, 3 of noblest sons of Ulster would be exiled, Ulster would be torn to pieces. Known as 'Deirdre of the Sorrows'. #FaustianFriday
Martin Rowson on the Tories’ Faustian energy pact – political cartoon gallery in London https://t.co/dePcTdnXF6
In ancient Greek Mythology,Enyo was the goddess of war and destruction. She is connected with Ares who was the war god. She was usually shown as the sister and companion for Ares the God of war. Sometimes she was called the “Sister of War”or the“Sacker of Cities.”
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There's been quite a fuss about the arrival of a Japanese spider in the East Coast of North America: the Jōrogumo, an actual species of orb weaver, is in Japanese folklore a craven hungry monster masquerading as a beauty with eyes only for you. #FaustianFriday
🖼: IrenHorrors
“I shall go into a hare,
With sorrow and sych and meickle care;
And I shall go in the Devil's name,
Ay while I come home again
Hare, hare, God send thee care.
I am in a hare's likeness now,
But I shall be in a woman's likeness even now”
Isobel Gowdie
Art self
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#FaustianFriday Lilith is a female figure in Mesopotamian and Judaic mythology,alternatively the 1st wife of Adam and supposedly the primordial she-demon. Lilith is cited as having been "banished" from the Garden of Eden for not complying and obeying Adam https://t.co/cOy1kPk8s0
Catalina de los Ríos y Lísperguer nicknamed La Quintrala because of her flaming red hair,was an aristocratic 17th-century Chilean landowner and murderer of the Colonial Era. She is famous for her beauty and,according to legend,her cruel treatment of her servants. #FaustianFriday
Berchta or Perchta is a frosty Alpine goddess - kind to those who are domestically good, terrifying to those who break the rules. A woman must not weave on her festival day (modern Epiphany in Jan). Her spinning should be done, house clean and porridge left. 1/3 #FaustianFriday
In many versions, Morgan the Fey has good reason to hate King Arthur's existence. Merlin's magic turned Arthur's father, Uther, into Morgan's father in order to sleep with Morgan's mother to produce Arthur. Then, to keep Morgan quiet, Uther made her join a nunnery #FaustianFriday
#FaustianFriday The Bloofer Lady: in Dracula, after becoming a vampire, Lucy is seen wandering around Hampstead Heath, luring children. Her name hints at her two natures: ‘light’ in her human form, but also Lucifer as a vampire, a female figure drawing on Milton’s Paradise Lost.
Symbols appearing in D.G. Rossetti's 1866 painting Lady Lilith allude to the femme fatale reputation of the Romantic Lilith: poppies (death & cold) & white roses (sterile passion). He wrote a sonnet: Lilith (later renamed Body's Beauty) to appear alongside it. #FaustianFriday
In Scotland Nicnevin is said to be a Queen of the Faeries. According to Walter Scott she's thought to be a sort of mother witch or the Scottish Hecate who 'rode on the storm and marshalled the rambling host of wanderers under her grim banner.'
🎨Thomas Maybank
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Irish goddess The Morrígan (phantom/great Queen) incites warriors to battle! Trio of sisters; Badb, Macha & Nemain. Appears as a crow (badb)! When Cú Chulainn died (strapped to standing stone), only when a crow landed on him was his enemy convinced he was dead! #FaustianFriday
Many Ulverston locals will avoid the eerie woods at Plumpton, and lurking in the water of the flooded iron mines nearby, lives Jenny Greenteeth, a 'river hag' who pulls children and the elderly into the water to drown them
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If you'd like a daily dose of #folklore, I recommend these hashtags:
#MythologyMonday #FairyTaleTuesday #WyrdWednesday #FolkloreThursday #FaustianFriday #SuperstitionSat #FolkloreSunday #SwampSunday
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