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From the 2nd Branch: Gwales (Grassholm) is an island off the Pembrokeshire Coast & the site of Brân the Blessed & his companions’ 80yr feast. Brân’s severed head entertained the party so that no one wanted to leave, despite an open door just by, facing Cornwall.

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2019-05-30

A priest a witch?

Following my earlier tweet about the strangely witchy West Country, here's a weird case from my notes.
In 1898 a woman from Chew Magna, Somerset, caused a scene in church by saying she'd shoot the parson, because he'd 'overlooked' her family.

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2019-05-31

The theme this week is strangers in strange lands, and I’m sharing a few Alices... here’s how visualized in 1916.

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2019-05-30

When Thor fought the frost giants of Jotunheim, their clashes would be heard as thunder here on Midgard.

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2019-05-30

We’re looking forward to a midsummer making session, suitable for families with artist & folklorist exploring fungi folklore -join us to discover its’ special significance at this time of year - https://t.co/6RNUol2Pm8 fairy ring image by

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2019-05-30

PIED PIPER. Uncanny stranger who leads the children of Hamelin on a danse macabre in response to the city's unfair treatment of him. In Transylvania, folk with German sounding names are said to believe they are the descendants of the lost children of Hamelin

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The strangest land of all is that land within a land. That place where the other folk live.

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2019-05-30

“My shoots are tipped with buds as dusty-grey
As ancient pilgrims toiling on their way.”
The Wayfaring tree is a sign that you are on or near a path. It was plentiful on the medieval pilgrim route from London to Canterbury.

Poem & Fairy: Cicely Barker, 1920s

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2019-05-30

To see the simply pluck Thyme from the hillside where they live. Then smear the herb into the lids of the eye. There is also an ancient ritual of wearing an amulet with thyme twigs, allowing one to see the magical other-world of the fairies.#FolkloreThursday

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2019-05-24

YEATS endorses the as an alternative to the sorrows of human life (The Stolen Child 1886)

Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand

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2019-05-24

There are various types of nymphs: Naiades (of the fresh-water), Oreiades (of the mountains), Dryads (of trees), Meliai (of ash-trees), Okeanides (of rivers, springs, and clouds), Nereides (of the sea) and the Lampades (of the underworld) among many others.

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2019-05-24

The sea-hare. A princess uses her magic windows to challenge her suitors to a deadly game of hide-and-seek. A fox helps the hero to outwit her, by transforming him into a "sea-hare" and giving him to the unsuspecting princess.

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2019-05-24

Names of the Celtic Otherworld:

Tír na Nóg (”The Land of Youth”)
Tír Tairngire ("Promised Land")
Tír fo Thuinn ("Land Under the Wave")
Mag Mell ("Plain of Delight")
Ildathach ("Multicoloured Place")
Emain Ablach (”Isle of Apple Trees”)

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2019-05-23

When you venture into the Bohemian forests, watch out for wood fairies--they may dance little boys to death. But they may show favor for girls, dancing for hours and then bestowing gifts, like a spindle-o-plenty or a basketful of golden birch leaves.

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2019-05-23

A Fairy Funeral, illustration from Goblin Tales of Lancashire 1883

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2019-05-23

It’s said that Fairies like to make their home
in Foxgloves.
Foxgloves were once called ‘folks’ glove’,
as the ‘good folk’ lived there.
The flowers follow the light, so it was thought
foxgloves swayed towards fairy folk passing by.

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2019-05-23

Fairy lingo! In C19th Ireland, there were lots of words and phrases concerning the fairies, in Irish and English.

‘Sheog’ was someone possessing a fairy charm, or spell.

‘Fairy money’ was fake, a politician’s phoney promise.

‘Fairy vision’ meant an illusion.

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