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Ängsälvor ('Meadow Elves'), painted by Swedish Artist Nils Blommér circa 1850

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2021-04-07

In 1862 two men who were transporting timber in Wales saw fifty fairy-like figures dancing near a hill before the figures vanished. Moments later, these fairies reappeared, formed a circle and danced. Then, one by one they disappeared into the ground.

🎨Diefenbach

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2021-04-01

An encounter has a Tengu curse two souls to never be happy with their gender in their next lives. In the next life the two siblings are transgender and very successful, but there are always complications in the famous Torikaebaya Monogatari.

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2021-04-01

In children’s books, doors often act as portals to magical, other worlds. Here are four old doors I always loved: Alice’s tiny door, Mary’s secret garden door, Dorothy’s tornado-blown door to Oz, & Lucy’s wardrobe door to Narnia. ☺️📚💫

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2021-03-31

Pwyll was whisked to the Welsh Otherworld for killing one of its King's stags. Arawn, King of Annwn, offered Pwyll a deal: live as Arawn for a year and let Arawn live as Pwyll for a year, and he would ignore the stag. So they switched.

🖼: A.M. Ferguson

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2021-03-31

William Blake claimed that he had once seen a fairy funeral.

'I saw a procession of creatures of the size and colour of green and gray grasshoppers, bearing a body laid out on a rose leaf, which they buried with songs, and then disappeared.'

🎨William Blake

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2021-03-31

The Tor in Glastonbury is, in Celtic mythology, hollow and a fairy underworld. Also known as Magic Mountain, it is said to be ruled by Gwyn ap Nudd.

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2021-03-31

FAIRY COURTESAN Fuseli's Gothic vision of is full of menace. Titania & Bottom in his asses' head, mingle with a hooded midnight hag clutching a changeling and a fairy courtesan with her victim, an old man on a chain

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2021-03-31

According to Highland lore Fairy food looks delicious but as soon as you say grace over it the food reveals itself to be horse dung.

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2021-03-31

That one time Hopeless went a bit medieval and butchered a unicorn tapestry

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2021-03-25

Tired of Tarot? If you’re looking for a novel approach to divination why not try Tyromancy, the art of Cheese Divination!
In the Middle Ages, people would predict their future spouse by writing names on pieces of cheese. Whichever grew mold first was the winner!

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2021-03-24

Mythology is great and all, but there is something horrifying in the Polish of the Latawce - demons as the of the souls of those who have suddenly died...

by karola-j

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2021-03-24

There are some lovely contemporary versions of lubki (Lubok singular) - the medieval traditions are strong - sharing for the designers among us

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2021-03-24

Cockaigne, the medieval peasant’s dream. Cheese rains from the sky, wine flows in the streams. A widespread idea of Utopia in the 12th century Europe, who today would not like to live where geese roast themselves & roofs were made of bacon?

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2021-03-24

One miracle associated with St. Patrick is the "Miracle of the Pigs." While escaping slavery St. Patrick & his fellow travelers were starving. Food miraculously appeared to him in the form of a herd of swine & pigs became a symbol of good luck

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2021-03-18


There is a perpetual battle for supremacy between the Green Man (ruler of the Winter months) & the Green Man (dominant during the Summer) - the power shifts between the two at the Spring & Autumn solstices.

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2021-03-18

Sometimes you just need to escape the mead hall food fight to see a troublesome leprechaun doing a stint of solitary confinement in a Neo-Norse dungeon. https://t.co/5SkvyMMtXX

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2021-03-17

A fantastic Japanese movie poster 'The Metaluna Mutant battles Kappa'

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2021-03-17

There is a time in everyone's life where they have to choose whether or not they trust the old man with the rabbits. I say: examine the eyes of the rabbits.


by Klaher Baklaher

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2021-03-17