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No self respecting mother in Liverpool will not have & serve her own version of ‘Scouse,’ without first warning her kids “this’ll put hairs on your chest!” Legend says the stew originates from the Norwegian sailors who arrived in the port in the 18th century.

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2019-07-25

Was going to this but realised it’s Friday. I don’t know where the time goes, I really don’t.

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2019-07-20

THREAD: “A truvatura”, meaning “the finding” is an ancestral Sicilian legend that talks about hidden enchanted treasures, protected by supernatural beings such as demons, pixies, gnomes, dragons or simply an immortal young woman 1/....

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2019-07-19

What’s Mjollnir’s one flaw?

The handle is too short. (Loki turned into a gadfly & stung the blacksmith in the eye while it was being forged.)

Loki got his mouth sewn shut for it.
So... even?

📷Ellysiumn

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2019-07-18

A trow is a fairy/troll associated with Orkney & The Shetland islands. Trows would kidnap musicians due their love of music. When the musician reappeared they’d often find years not hours had passed since they disappeared.

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2019-07-18

According to Cornish legend, St Michaels Mt in Cornwall was built by the giant Cormoran. A local boy dug a trench into the side of the island & blew his horn so loud Cormoran woke and rolled down the hill. The boy would earn the name "Jack the Giant Killer."

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2019-07-18

Ghille Dhu is a Scottish wood-dwelling fairy with dark hair, clothed with leaves and moss. He is said to have been rather wild looking, but he was also considered to be kind and gentle- especially to children.

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2019-07-18

"The fairies from the enchanted islands regularly attended markets at Milford Haven and Laugharne. They made their purchases without speaking, laid down their money and departed. Sometimes they were invisible, but were often seen."
British Goblins, 1880

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2019-07-18

THE SHADOWY WATERS, 1904. Folklorist & poet W. B. Yeats, wrote of an island of women who cast no shadows & manifest as woman-headed birds, discovered by a ghost ship of undead sailors near the world's end. Yeats read about vampires during his occult phase

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2019-07-18

To Ancient Greeks Sicily + Aeolian Islands were an earthly paradise home to gods + heroes Hades abducted goddess Demeter's daughter Persephone from Sicily to his underworld. Her loss is marked by Autumn + Winter, her return by Spring + Summer

🎨 David Schlosser

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2019-07-18

After sustaining a mortal wound at Camlann, Arthur is carried off to Avalon, the isle of apples, for his wounds to heal. The legends of Avalon make it a locus for magic, the place where Excalibur was forged, & a destination for Joseph of Arimathea.

Art: Archer

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2019-07-18

An adorable image from our from 1917. Little girl with magic telescope. Little folk provide a magic telescope so that a human girl can see - 'Oh, what did she see ?' Illustration by Duncan Carse in Lucy Scott's Dewdrops from Fairyland ©Mary Evnas

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2019-07-18

The Ladies Lament...
The tragic ballad of Sir Patrick Spens

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2019-07-18

Hermann Hendrich died 1931. Along with my love for folklore, tree-lore, & witchery, the 1st painting, The Will-o’-the-Wisp & the Snake, inspired a poem I titled “The Ladies of Lancashire”. You can read it here:

https://t.co/CNjIFXOZQO

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2019-07-18

Among Pixies and Trolls (1913) by John Bauer (1882-1918). Swedish folklore and fairy tales.

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2019-07-18

Fishermen in Hokkaido once believed that when the sky turned red, it warned of the appearance of the giant red octopus Akkorokamui, which can swallow a ship in a single gulp. They carried scythes on board for defense art by

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2019-07-11

Charon ferryman of the Greek Underworld.His role was to ferry the souls of the dead to the afterlife by payment of a single coin. If a soul didnt have a coin they were destined to wonder the river Acheron/Styx banks as ghosts, lost forever

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2019-07-12

The snow queen flies through the world on a winter's night. (More Edmund Dulac: https://t.co/3EvtlF6Bqd and Adrienne Segur: https://t.co/8rvFQZ3A4J)

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2019-07-12

In Newfoundland, a dwy is a mist or fine shower. [Etchings by David Blackwood]

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2019-07-11

The use of clouds for divination, Aeromancy, is a vital element of many magical traditions, however in Renaissance magic, Aeromancy is classified as one of "The 7 Forbidden Arts,” along with Necromancy, Geomancy, Hydromancy, Pyromancy, Chiromancy & Spatulamancy.

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2019-07-11