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Saw the tag and had to jump on that wagon! Faoladh is an Irish term for werewolf. Irish werewolves were considered guardian spirits who protected children, wounded men, and the lost.

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Happy Twitter! ["The Harvest Home," Thomas Rowlandson]

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Tomte (Swedish) or Tonttu (Finnish, also called Nisse in Norway) are solitary, mischievous domestic spirits, responsible for the protection and welfare of a farmstead and its buildings.

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Farming in Hopeless, Maine can be hazardous (but then so can pretty much everything else) Occasionally one must defend oneself from produce. Night potatoes can be aggressive. (art-self)

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In Slavic myth, Lady Midday appears on hot days & approaches people working in fields to ask them questions. If they answer wrong, she kills them with a scythe or with heatstroke.

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The handicaps our farming ancestors suffered are summed up in this somewhat pessimistic rhyme ...

Sow four grains in a row;
One for the pigeons; one for the crow;
One to rot; and one to grow.

Followed by a draught of ale poured on the earth for the faeries.

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White Bindweed belongs to Saturn, ruler of witchcraft. No gardener’s friend, its strong, tangled vines are used in binding spells on the dark of the moon. They also form a bridge between this world & the unseen realms in threshold magic. Image: Cicely Barker

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For my Character Modeling class i model one of my concepts. Im definitely
gonna keep working on her and i just quickly render it on keyshot just to see some color on her.

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There’s no hero more praised in Ireland than noble Cú Chulainn who fastened himself to the stone, Clochafarmore, mortally wounded, and stood his ground against an army. Only when the raven touched his shoulder did they at last know he was dead.

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The early had a word for the surpassing beauty of women: 'aelfschine' = elvin-bright or lovely as an

Painting by Sophie Anderson

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Nakano Takeko became an icon and her myth grew until she became a legend and paragon of strength, perseverance, and determination. Her life and bravery spawned countless manga, anime and films.

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That is how the coyote saved the people from the Giant. With a broken leg, the Giant could not each children and the coyote wondered on to do other great things like steal fire, paint the sky and stop a river monster. 2.1/2

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Because it was dark in the tent, coyote broke a deer leg he hid inside. "Did you hear?" he asked. The Giant: "Yes." The coyote said some incantations& let the Giant feel his leg. Amazed by the magic, the Giant let the coyote brake his leg. He did & escaped. 2/2

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In Native American tales, the coyote is both a trickster & a hero. When a Giant was eating children, coyote told him he can make the Giant more powerful. They went into a dark tent & the coyote said, "I will break my leg & mend it, so you can see my power." 1/2

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The complicated heroine of Hopeless, Maine. Childe-Salamandra to the stormy coast came.#FolkloreThursday

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Blodeuwedd, “Flower face”, contemporary meaning, Owl. A heroine of the 4th branch of The Mabinogi. Created by the magicians Math & Gwydion, to counter a curse placed by Arianrhod on her son, she was made from flowers broom,meadowsweet & oak (Art by Yuri Leitch)

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A "natural history" approach to the spiritual protectorates of Japan's forests and mountains, the Tengu. (repost for my west coast followers)

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A midsummer night, a boy danced with a girl, he saw that she had a tail and whispered to her, "Miss your tail is showing". The girl thanked him and disappeared. From that day on, the boy always had the luck of the chase, because he had helped a troll.

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