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Today’s prompt was about clothing! The Merrow was a type of mermaid in Irish folklore who would travel between land and sea using a red cap, in a similar way to selkies wearing a seal coat.

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Forced to enter the Underworld, as she passed through each of its terrible gates Ishtar was forced to remove another layer of clothes. Through all the gates she went, meant to be humbled, but all it did was make the goddess more indignant.

🖼: Roomyana

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- Strange Folklore: The Mystery of Concealed Footwear https://t.co/uL47c4vYlV

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"The Mitten" is a Ukrainian folktale about a lost mitten and the various forest creatures who decide to make it their home. In some tellings the mitten bursts, but in others the animals leave and the owner recovers his lost garment.

Art by Evgenii Rachev

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In Britain, since at least late 19thC, it was thought to be bad luck to mend clothes whilst they were still being worn. What form the ill fortune would take varied from being cursed never to be rich to having evil thought/spoken of the unlucky one

🎨 AJ Murray

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In the tale 'The Red Shoes', a poor girl is adopted by a rich lady who burns her original handmade red shoes, which symbolize the girl’s creativity & freedom. She then buys a new pair of luxurious but deadly red shoes that make her dance uncontrollably.

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Thank you all folk for creating such a rich weft of clothes-lore this is donning a risky green gown+heading off to see the fae~magical will return to share more of your tweets at 1pm GMT pic:Midsummer Nights Dream Arthur Rackham 1908

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FAE FASHION Queen Mab is usually pictured in white as if dressed for the bridal, inspired by Shelley's Queen Mab poem, 1813 & Drayton's Nimphidia, 1627 🎨Maybank, 1906, Smedberg, 1907; Henry Meynell Rheam, 1908

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Beatrix Potter’s The Tailor of Gloucester was based on a local legend. A tailor making a suit for the Mayor returned to work to find the suit finished – supposedly by his assistants. He encouraged the belief that it was fairy work.

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Tennin are divine beings in Buddhist lore similar to angels or fairies, portrayed as women in colorful kimonos called hagoromo. In some legends, they can't fly back to heaven without their hagoromo, so men will steal them to force tennin into marriage.

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In Irish myth, merfolk each wear a cohuleen druith, a magic hood or cap that enables them to dive underwater. These garments are generally described as red & covered in feathers. If they lose this item while on land, they can't return to the water.

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We've seen a bunch of trailers and info about our newest batch of bachelors and bachelorettes! Who do you plan on romancing in Rune Factory 5? Anyone catch your eye?

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i finished the bachelorettes! im really happy with how it turned out.

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when Luthor and Lorelei's rooftop scene gone wrong..

HAHSHSAHAHAB kilig is mee 🤣

follow me on ig: @/krizi.arts

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🌿🦄🌿For I'm giving a mention to the magical stepping stones that get me through the week...






And for a daily dose of re-enchantment💚

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In Somerset folklore, the Apple Tree Man was the name given to the spirit in the oldest tree in the orchard, where the orchard's fertility is thought to reside. Legends say wassailing the tree with cider might convince him to tell you where to find treasure.

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The yokai Akateko is a disembodied red child's hand that drops down from Japanese honey locust trees and slaps people. art by
https://t.co/3FXIuXfuyG

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Jubokko is a yōkai tree that grows in battlefields or sites of massacres. It looks like ordinary tree except for subtle monstrous features from human blood it absorbs. It snatches unsuspecting humans and pierces them with sharp branches, sucking their blood.

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Hello there 🐉

A huge thanks to Crystal for being our host before the break! I'm , your last host today.

Our theme this week is Folklore of Plants and Flowers. It's definitely a crowd favourite 🍀🌸🫒🌻 ♣️

Tacuinum Sanitatis 15th CE

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