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Lord of the Dead, #Fairy Cavalcade #Psychopomp: The Mysterious Origins of the #WildHunt & Its Many Faces in Pop Culture 🦌🐎⚔️☠️ Pocket history of the myth & new relevance in pop novels & video games #FolkloreThursday #CassandraClare #GwynapNudd #HornedGod https://t.co/5Guauhb5ZL
3. The #SeelieQueen from the @ShadowhunterBks by @cassieclare. She is the cool and collected ancient beauty who rules #Faerie with immense power and she one of my favourite mythological favourite characters from all of the books.
#FolkloreThursday 4/5
2. Gwyn Ap Nudd is a #Welsh #mythological figure, the king of the Tylwyth Teg or "fair folk" and ruler of the Welsh #Otherworld, #Annwn, and whose name means “Gwyn, son of Nudd
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When the first baby laughed for the first time, it's laugh broke into a thousand pieces, they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
~ J M Barrie ~ #FolkloreThursday #Art #fairies
🎨 Susan B Pearse
the story you already knew...🧺
#littleredridinghood #wolf #fox #edward #ginger #gingergirlie #greywolf #dierwolf #folklore #FairyTail #FairyTaleTuesday #bigbadwolf #anime #manga #animestyle #art #artistsontwitter #myart #digitalart #artistsupport #fluffy #cute #furry #anthroart
Long ago, folk believed faeries were invisible, except to cats; a cat sat staring at nothing was watching fairies. When a cat sat on a mother's lap, its purring was the sound of it spinning sleep, so that stealthy wee folk could abduct her child
#FolkloreThursday 🎨Isabel Watkins
✦ Flying Ship Update!✦ Don’t worry Firebird, mysterious new character will protect you! https://t.co/zsvTSWDL4B
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#flyingship #comics #webcomics #russianfairytale #folklore #fantasy
It's important to point if you are talking about a dog, child, cow. Otherwise the fairy that shares its name may turn up and replace it. The Good folk do not like being accidentally summoned by their names. Art: Arthur Rackham #FolkloreThursday
According to Ojibwe #lore, Memegwaans is a mini humanoid who is terrified of adult humans; disappearing if they see one. However, they have a love for human children. Helping any child who is upset, injured, scared, or lonely; protecting them until help arrives. #FolkloreThursday
This #FolkloreThursday is about #Fairies ! In cornish, welsh and devon folklore, the Knocker would tap on the walls of mines and warn of or cause cave-ins. Bluecaps, in Northern folklore, appeared as flames and served a similar purpose.
@FolkloreThurs #illustration
Leannán Sidhe (fairy mistress) is a fae spirit that seeks the love of human men. If they refuse her, she is their slave. If they are seduced, they are hers. She often takes young poets for lovers. She provides inspiration to these artists. @FolkloreThurs #FolkloreThursday
“Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!” —William Butler Yeats #quote 🧚🏻♀️ #FolkloreThursday #poetry
✨🍀✨Four-leaved clovers are widely reputed to bring good luck - but carrying one also protects against enchantments and bestows the ability to see Faeries!
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Happy #internationalwolfday! 🐺💕
Here's Fenrir (Norse mythology), Cheeroonear (Aboriginal mythology) and Orthrus (Greek mythology) to celebrate these beautiful canines!
#art #artist #inkdrawing #pendrawing #illustration #illustrator #lineart #lineartist #folklorethusrday
To the Ancient Aztecs, Chaneques were tiny humanoid creatures, protecting nature. Attacking intruders with fright, so the soul would leave the body! If the victim didn't recover their soul in a specific ritual, they would die & the soul would be forever trapped! #FolkloreThursday
In certain parts of Ireland it is considered bad luck to disturb a Fairy Bower or a so called 'Sceach Gheal', usually a Hawthorn, where Fairies are supposed to congregate. #FolkloreThursday @FolkloreThurs @HistoriumU @CrystalPonti @DeeDeeChainey @WillowWinsham @TheSacredIsle
🌿🍏🌿When harvesting apples it is traditional to leave at least one fruit on the tree as a gift for the Fae.
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Boggarts: malevolent form of Fae from the English East Midlands said to inhabit houses and sheds where they sour milk and render animals barren. More often they live in geographical features like hills, dales or quarries, often encoutnered on rambles #FolkloreThursday
A Hob Lantern for this week’s #fairy theme #FolkloreThursday — widespread light-bearing fae that lure the unwary traveller from their path through the marsh. Such bog dwellers have many names, including Nimble men (Scot.), Hinky-punk (Westcountry) and of course will-‘o-the-wisp.
✨Skíðblaðnir ;Legendary Magical,#AncientShip, “assembled by dwarves & elves from thin pieces of wood;” the ship could sail & also fly; w/many parts and w/such craftsmanship that, when not needed at sea, may be folded up like cloth and placed into one's pocket!” #FolkLoreThursday