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«A Neruda», por Poetas Nuevos (@Poetas_Nuevos), autor destacado de Salto al reverso.
https://t.co/0nDKhXqlug
Diseño: Fiesky Rivas/Crissanta
Imagen de fondo: Loretta
#AutorDestacado #escritor #literatura #poemas
You can't prove him wrong because he can't see your evidence.
Derek is Loreta's twin brother, and is completely blind !
That doesnt stop his sass.
#art #digitalart #oc
YEATS endorses the #changeling as an alternative to the sorrows of human life (The Stolen Child 1886) #FolkloreThursday #FolkoreWords
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a #fairy hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand
There are various types of nymphs: Naiades (of the fresh-water), Oreiades (of the mountains), Dryads (of trees), Meliai (of ash-trees), Okeanides (of rivers, springs, and clouds), Nereides (of the sea) and the Lampades (of the underworld) among many others.
#FolkloreThursday
The sea-hare. A princess uses her magic windows to challenge her suitors to a deadly game of hide-and-seek. A fox helps the hero to outwit her, by transforming him into a "sea-hare" and giving him to the unsuspecting princess. #the100dayproject #grimmsfairytales #FolkloreThursday
Happy #FolkloreThursday! This beauty appears in Good Night, Fairies. #michaelhague #illustration #kidlitart #kathleenhague #book #picturebook #book #books #unicorn
Names of the Celtic Otherworld:
Tír na Nóg (”The Land of Youth”)
Tír Tairngire ("Promised Land")
Tír fo Thuinn ("Land Under the Wave")
Mag Mell ("Plain of Delight")
Ildathach ("Multicoloured Place")
Emain Ablach (”Isle of Apple Trees”)
#folklorethursday #mythology #fairies
When you venture into the Bohemian forests, watch out for wood fairies--they may dance little boys to death. But they may show favor for girls, dancing for hours and then bestowing gifts, like a spindle-o-plenty or a basketful of golden birch leaves. #FolkloreThursday
#FolkloreThursday A Fairy Funeral, illustration from Goblin Tales of Lancashire 1883
It’s said that Fairies like to make their home
in Foxgloves.
Foxgloves were once called ‘folks’ glove’,
as the ‘good folk’ lived there.
The flowers follow the light, so it was thought
foxgloves swayed towards fairy folk passing by.
#FolkloreThursday
Fairy lingo! In C19th Ireland, there were lots of words and phrases concerning the fairies, in Irish and English.
‘Sheog’ was someone possessing a fairy charm, or spell.
‘Fairy money’ was fake, a politician’s phoney promise.
‘Fairy vision’ meant an illusion.
#folklorethursday
There’s much folklore around fossilized sea urchins, perfectly shaped and precious stones that they are.
In 1887 a round barrow on Dunstable Downs was excavated unearthing two skeletons, a woman and a child, surrounded by more than 100 fossilized sea urchins #FolkloreThursday
Could you love, or lust after, a fairy? Goodwin Wharton, an English nobleman and politician, did. During the late 1600s, assisted by his cunning-woman lover, he repeatedly tried to arrange nocturnal meetings with the Fairy Queen.
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(Picture of his brother).
Tuatha de Danann, was the magical race of ancient Ireland. They were god-like creatures with supernatural abilities, worshiped during the pre-Christian era. Later, as Christianity took roots, the Tuatha de Danann persisted in folklore as either Saints or Fae.
#FolkloreThursday
✨🍄✨Fairy Rings, circles of toadstools that appear in fields, are said to be where the Fae dance. If you run 9 times around one at the full moon you will hear their music & singing - but beware, if you run widdershins (anticlockwise) you will be lost forever!
#FolkloreThursday
Thanl you to @hannah_chapin for drawing my female majin, Lorethia. She looks so cute and I love it.