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An illustration of the Fairy King and Queen from 1910. They ruled the fairies. #FolkloreThursday🧚🏼♀️🧚🏻♂️
Mostly vampire legends are from European folklore, similar references are found most notably in Hebrew & Greek mythology. Lilith a female demon known to prey on the blood of babies. & Ambrogio of Greek myth, who fell for the sun god, Apollo's woman. #FolkloreThursday #Vampires
Greetings #FolkloreThursday! This is @Mythcrafts sending a big shout out to @WillowWinsham for the last session. We are here for the next 90 minutes to join you on a magical journey through the lands of the little people.
An elf and a fairy kissing - Fairy Land by Richard Doyle.
FAIRIES & THE DEAD Evans Wentz (1911) recorded the Highland belief in #fairy hosts as the evil dead & Cornish Peskies as the souls of unbaptised babies, appearing at Twilight in the form of moths #FolkloreThursday #GothicFairies Images: Pirner 1888; Highgate; white plume moth
Some #SussexLore for #FolkloreThursday.
Known as Pharisees & famous for their love of dancing; the last Fairies in England lived in the Sussex Downs - from The Spectator 1908: 'Pharisees & Fairy Rings'.
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Isobel and her coven flew through the air, shooting anyone they wished - the souls of their victims went to heaven, but their bodies remained as soul-less husks with the witches. #FolkloreThursday (Artist: Peter Nicolai Arbo)
#FolkloreThursday Fairy paintings are strongly rooted in the literary and theatrical influences of Romanticism, as well as in the cultural issues facing the Victorian era. Henry Fuseli and William Blake produced works that would be indicative of the later genre even before 1800.
#FolkloreThursday Mab is the Queen of the Fairies in English folklore. She is a mischievous but kind and benevolent sprite.
Img: Sylvia Duran
Born of ‘extrapluffs’ or ‘majickal’ intuition, the sylpha will glide on the autumn breeze, joyful amongst the leaves in Winchett Dale... #FolkloreThursday
@_elenarts im loretto and i love cartoons and video games ✌
@ghostsfromvenus Sage floret loves to spend time working on her garden!!!
2/ On Christmas morning, the bag would be silently unwrapped, and the rose placed in the lady's bosom for church. The first man who either asks about the rose or plucks it from her bodice (cheeky!), will be her husband. #FolkloreThursday [From Lindley's history of roses]
1/ Cornish ladies used roses for divination. Walking backwards into a garden on Midsummer's eve (as you do), they would pick a rose, then place it in a bag... [A plate from 'Flora Londinensis', by William Curtis.] #FolkloreThursday #PlantLore
Jack climbing the beanstalk. Illustration by Walter Crane. #FolkloreThursday #FairyTales
Never destroy or even pluck a leaf from a fig tree, or a dreadful curse will befall you! #Art by #MonikaBeisner in Secret Spells and Curious Charms. #vintage #picturebook #folklore #illustration #folklorethursday
Sometimes, I don't know what to say for #folkloreThursday. Not true on #InternationalCatDay -- Medieval cat tiles are also featured (that means seriously discounted) and do help support @BlindCatRescue @FolkloreThurs (All #medieval #cat #tiles are here: https://t.co/0QZ6Na5UXh)
Ah! Magic Herbs and folklore of herbs, plants, and flowers. I can do that! Let us start with.... John Bauer...
(More Bauer art: https://t.co/gVI5HfMOGL and even more John Bauer with the stories: https://t.co/FJiWLZw0yP
#FolkloreThursday #Magic #Magick @FolkloreThurs
Intéressons-nous à L’Epître Othéa de Christine de Pizan. Allégorie où la déesse de la Prudence, Othéa, envoie une lettre au jeune Hector de Troie. Dieux, déesses, héros de mythologies, tous se confondent dans un ensemble de 100 textes ou courts poèmes #FolkloreThursday #medieval
A Neanderthal Cave site in Iraqi Kurdistan, Shanidar 4, revealed pollen of various plants in the soil next to human skeletons, pollen of plants that are still used as healing plants today, including Yarrow and Hollyhock. #FolkloreThursday