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In Scotland Nicnevin is said to be a Queen of the Faeries. According to Walter Scott she's believed to be a sort of mother witch or the Scottish Hecate who 'rode on the storm and marshalled the rambling host of wanderers under her grim banner.'
🎨Thomas Maybank
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'They made their purchases without speaking, laid down their money and departed, always leaving the exact sum required, which they seemed to know without asking the price of anything'
Fairies at market [British Goblins, 1880, Sikes] #FolkloreThursday
[Fairy Market, Helen Jacobs]
On the Isle of Man, "themselves" (the fairies) were sometimes said to be the souls of those who died in Noah's flood...
🎨Richard Dadd @FolkloreThurs #FolkloreThursday
It is prudent to tickle a newborn's nose with pepper as soon as possible—for babies aren't safe from the fairies until after their first sneeze. #FolkloreThursday
Art: Brian Froud
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Nuno sa Punso (old man of the termite mound/anthill), is a dwarf-like spirit in Philippine mythology. They are known to curse people who trespass on their homes. Curses range from severe pain of the body to vomiting blood or urinating black liquid. #artph
Foxglove gets its name from the legend that the Fae gave the fox the flower blossoms to pad its feet so it would be a more silent hunter.
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Sometimes, #fairies can adopt the guise of an animal.
In Scotland, faes could take the shape of deer, mice or black sheep.
In "The Legend of Knockshigowna" a fairy queen transformed herself into a chimera to scare a farmer who pastured on their ground.
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Hello again, #FolkloreThursday! This is Crystal @HistoriumU logging on for another magical session. Thanks to @MythCrafts for hosting before our break. Our theme this week is the folklore of fairies, the fae and little people! I can’t wait to share your tweets! (Img: Robert Bell)
#FolkloreThursday While early medieval accounts portrayed the Wild Hunt as demonic, later romances imagined it as a host of fairies. English leaders of the Hunt included King Arthur, Herne the Hunter, and King Herla https://t.co/hoMcZLnQmW
🎨Peter Nicolai Arbo & George Cruikshank
#FolkloreThursday Fairies Rescuing a Bird from a Cage, Margaret Tempest.
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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 and danced in a circle. Then, one by one they disappeared in the ground.
🎨Diefenbach
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In Grimm's story a wise neighbor gives a stricken new mother advice on how to get rid of a suspected Changeling: "Boil water in an eggshell, this will make it laugh. Once it laughs, it can no longer stay in this world."
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"I saw a procession of creatures of the size and colour of green and grey grasshoppers, bearing a body laid out on a rose leaf, which they buried with songs... It was a fairy funeral." (William Blake, #DOTD 1827)
🖼️ M. Pirner "Funeral of a Fairy" (1888)
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When it comes to illustrating the little people of Ye Olde Scandinavia, Jenny Nyström was best. #FolkloreThursday https://t.co/JAIFu9bOLB
Two feet tall with a massive head and wrinkled skin, a knocker is a sight to see in the mines of Cornwall and Devon. A good sight, too: they beckon to veins of rich minerals and warn of incoming disasters when mines collapse. Treat them well. #FolkloreThursday
Every Friday, fairies make time to comb and tidy the beards of goats. 🐐 And this must be exhausting because on Saturdays they take the whole day off. 🧚🏼♀️
🎨Resting Goats, Jacques-Joseph Lecurieux, 1840. #FolkloreThursdays
Oft times Faeries are malevolent, but at others they just seem accidentally cruel.
A Galway farmer played hurling with the Fae one night. He returned the next morning to find that years had passed, he was dead and his family had even buried his corpse!
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ELFLAND or Alfheim 'elf-home' is associated with the land of the dead in folklore; no sun or moon only perpetual twilight. Mortals who enter are only released if they are able to perform some task of value to the fae, W. Henderson, 1897🎨 Gustave Doré, 1870 #FolkloreThursday
In the Scottish ballad of Tam Lin, the Fairy Queen is a terrible, seductive figure who pays a tithe to Hell in the form of a soul every 7 years. This echoes Christian lore that fairies were fallen angels neither good enough for heaven nor evil enough for Hell #FolkloreThursday