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To make money from magic, you needed a good story. A striking bio, like the c19th Irish 'fairy doctors' and fortune-tellers who said they'd spent years in the subterranean worlds of the wee folk.
'They were all gentleman there' one magician claimed, in 1837.
#FolkloreThursday
The Dullahan is the Irish Headless Horseman. This Unseelie Fairy rides a black horse and holds his severed head under his arm. Whoever's name he calls out is said to die. Variations say he dumps blood on passersby. Gold may deter him. #FolkloreThursday https://t.co/w0gDp2UbCY
Fairies hid underground by day, deep in the round green hills. Eager listeners ears to the ground, heard their music. A piper, eager to learn such tunes, entered into the Picts' Knowe on the Scottish Borders. He never emerged, now it is known as Piper's Grave... #FolkloreThursday
#FolkloreThursday - When Odysseus visited the #underworld, the shade (ghost) of the seer Tiresias--a self-realized human who had lived years on Earth as a man and a woman--was the only one able to give the #Greek hero the advice he needed to return home. (Art: Füssli.)
The ever-debated 'hollow earth' tells of Agartha. The subterranean world inside our planet, illuminated by a tiny sun; with mountains, forests & lakes. Where intelligent humanoids reside. Entrances exist at the poles & in caverns, honeycombed through the planet. #FolkloreThursday
This #FolkloreThursday we should remember how much of our modern world is inspired by ancient tales, which #dnd5e monster based in folklore is your favourite? At the moment mine is the Chimera three headed beast of conflict.
CALLICANTZAROS. Greek #Vampire being & demon confined to the underworld. He only emerges for 12 days from 25th Dec to 7th Jan. The callicantzaros is therefore uncannily referred to in English as the Christmas Vampire. #FolkloreThursday @OGOMProject
#FolkloreThursday Psychopomps are creatures, spirits, angels, or deities in many religions whose responsibility is to escort newly deceased souls from Earth to the afterlife. Their role is to guide them.
#art 'Souls on the Banks of the Acheron' by Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl, 1898
The Romans believed there were several entrances to the #Underworld. One was Lake Avernus, which JMW Turner painted, with Aeneas consulting the Sibyl about how to make the descent to see his father (#Virgil, Aeneid 6) #FolkloreThursday
In Greek mythology, Hypnos and his brother Thanatos are the gods of sleep and death respectively and are said to reside in the underworld realm of Hades.
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Artwork: 'Sleep and His Half-Brother Death' by John William Waterhouse
White Bryony (dioica) - English mandrake - has been used since Medieval times in place of the mandrake root in image magic. Carved to resemble the human-shaped mandrake root, it is used to draw a lover, induce conception, & bring wealth & power. #FolkloreThursday Img: C. Barker
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One Cherokee legend tells of Spearfinger, an ogress who lived in the mountains and took the appearance of an old woman. With skin hard as a rock, so no weapon could penetrate, and a stony forefinger of bone, she’d cut her victims and eat their livers. #FolkloreThursday
Tsukumogami are very old objects that have gained a spirit and become animate. It can happen to all kinds of things like tools, musical instruments, household goods, and kitchen implements like this rice cooker by our own @lilita_yaya #FolkloreThursday #yokai
Peg Powler: A water spirit of the River Tees in North East England. Taking the form of an old woman with green skin & green hair, she grabs the ankles of those on the water's edge,pulls them in & drowns them. Green foam on the water is said to show her presence #FolkloreThursday
Urashima Tarō saved a sea turtle, and as a reward, was carried to the Dragon Palace under the sea to spend time with the Princess then. After what seemed like a few days, he returned to the surface to find that centuries had gone by while he remained a young man #FolkloreThursday
As a medical student, Ebenezer Sibly became interested in F. A. Mesmer's theories of animal magnetism.
Animal magnetism, or mesmerism, was a belief in an invisible healing force in all living things, and precursor to James Braid's development of hypnotism.
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I love the idea of #Halloween #Fairies it fits @OGOMProject #GothicFairies theme so well. May the fairies of Halloween bring you every wish!! #31DaysofHalloween Day 10 #FolkloreThursday