//=time() ?>
4. The Golden Bird
This is ATU 550, “The Golden Bird”, again from the Brothers Grimm. The expressions of the fox are brilliant! 🦊
Full text: https://t.co/T1M8kobqtZ
Full comic book: https://t.co/45W2uEauGM
@FolkloreThurs #FolkloreThursday
The character design of the comic antagonist: Calypso the #Greek demi-goddess/sorceress/nymph
#webcomic #FolkloreThursday #FolkHorror #horror #pagan #WitchyWednesday #Villain #originalcharacter #ocs #characterdesign
#BeatrixPotter, children’s #writer & #illustrator, was born in #London on 28th July 1866. In her first & most famous story, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, (1901), our eponymous hero, after much drama, escapes the farmer & ending up sharing his father’s fate in a pie. #FolkloreThursday
#FolkloreThursday No self respecting mother in Liverpool will not have & serve her own version of ‘Scouse,’ without first warning her kids “this’ll put hairs on your chest!” Legend says the stew originates from the Norwegian sailors who arrived in the port in the 18th century.
@Faizenek Oh lord I hope I'm not too late 😢
Loretta would look so perfect in that getup though XD
Was going to #FolkloreThursday this but realised it’s Friday. I don’t know where the time goes, I really don’t. #Pencildrawing #Illustrations #art
An attack for Loretecks on Artfight! Their WoW OC and mine fighting back to back <3 #WoWOC #WorldOfWarcraft #artfight2019 #MoonlitArt
THE #MERMAID SAINT. Liban was caught in the net of Fergus of Miliuc. Clerics gave her a choice, to be baptized and go to heaven within an hour, or to wait 300 years on earth. She chose to die, miracles were wrought through her & she became St. Muirgen of Donegal #FolkloreThurday.
@FolkloreThurs #folklorethursday THREAD: “A truvatura”, meaning “the finding” is an ancestral Sicilian legend that talks about hidden enchanted treasures, protected by supernatural beings such as demons, pixies, gnomes, dragons or simply an immortal young woman 1/....
What’s Mjollnir’s one flaw?
The handle is too short. (Loki turned into a gadfly & stung the blacksmith in the eye while it was being forged.)
Loki got his mouth sewn shut for it.
So... even?
#FolkloreThursday #Avengers 📷Ellysiumn @DeviantArt
A trow is a fairy/troll associated with Orkney & The Shetland islands. Trows would kidnap musicians due their love of music. When the musician reappeared they’d often find years not hours had passed since they disappeared. #FolkloreThursday
According to Cornish legend, St Michaels Mt in Cornwall was built by the giant Cormoran. A local boy dug a trench into the side of the island & blew his horn so loud Cormoran woke and rolled down the hill. The boy would earn the name "Jack the Giant Killer." #FolkloreThursday
Ghille Dhu is a Scottish wood-dwelling fairy with dark hair, clothed with leaves and moss. He is said to have been rather wild looking, but he was also considered to be kind and gentle- especially to children. #FolkloreThursday
"The fairies from the enchanted islands regularly attended markets at Milford Haven and Laugharne. They made their purchases without speaking, laid down their money and departed. Sometimes they were invisible, but were often seen."
British Goblins, 1880
#FolkloreThursday #Wales
THE SHADOWY WATERS, 1904. Folklorist & poet W. B. Yeats, wrote of an island of women who cast no shadows & manifest as woman-headed birds, discovered by a ghost ship of undead sailors near the world's end. Yeats read about vampires during his occult phase #FolkloreThursday
To Ancient Greeks Sicily + Aeolian Islands were an earthly paradise home to gods + heroes #FolkloreThursday Hades abducted goddess Demeter's daughter Persephone from Sicily to his underworld. Her loss is marked by Autumn + Winter, her return by Spring + Summer
🎨 David Schlosser
After sustaining a mortal wound at Camlann, Arthur is carried off to Avalon, the isle of apples, for his wounds to heal. The legends of Avalon make it a locus for magic, the place where Excalibur was forged, & a destination for Joseph of Arimathea. #FolkloreThursday
Art: Archer
An adorable image from our #archives from 1917. Little girl with magic telescope. Little folk provide a magic telescope so that a human girl can see - 'Oh, what did she see ?' Illustration by Duncan Carse in Lucy Scott's Dewdrops from Fairyland ©Mary Evnas #FolkloreThursday
The Ladies Lament...
The tragic ballad of Sir Patrick Spens #ElizabethSiddal #FolkloreThursday