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"Banshee", mythological creature of Irish folklore. She is a messenger announcing the death of a close family member.

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2019-07-21

If you're looking for some original art look no further than my updated shop page, there are styles to suit everyone's taste, whether you like folklore, fairies or just something pretty and different : https://t.co/BXiJ1tfovu

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2019-07-20

Was going to this but realised it’s Friday. I don’t know where the time goes, I really don’t.

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2019-07-20

hello!! i'm isa, an animation student from the netherlands who loves medieval art, folklore and frogs!! ✨

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2019-07-19

An Alp is a supernatural being in German folklore. It is sometimes likened to a vampire, but its behavior is more akin to that of the incubus. The word Alp is the German form of the word that comes into English as 'elf'.
'The Nightmare', by Henry Fuseli, between 1790-1791

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2019-07-19

THE 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

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2019-07-19

Victor and Valentino is another pretty good new cartoon, this one on Cartoon Network. I like it. The characters are good, the plots are really unique, employing some Latin American folklore which really gives the show it's own feel. Interested to see where the show goes.

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2019-07-18

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/....

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2019-07-19

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?

📷Ellysiumn

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2019-07-18

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.

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2019-07-18

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."

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2019-07-18

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.

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2019-07-18

"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

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2019-07-18

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

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2019-07-18

To Ancient Greeks Sicily + Aeolian Islands were an earthly paradise home to gods + heroes 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

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2019-07-18

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.

Art: Archer

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2019-07-18

The Japanese believe the cause of earthquakes is the giant catfish Namazu. He lives beneath Japan, wiggling his tail & causing earthquakes in the human world.

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2019-07-18

An adorable image from our 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

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2019-07-18

The Ladies Lament...
The tragic ballad of Sir Patrick Spens

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2019-07-18

Hermann Hendrich died 1931. Along with my love for folklore, tree-lore, & witchery, the 1st painting, The Will-o’-the-Wisp & the Snake, inspired a poem I titled “The Ladies of Lancashire”. You can read it here:

https://t.co/CNjIFXOZQO

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2019-07-18