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That's the end of another epic 🐿️

Today's theme has been Tree & Forest Lore! From wand materials to graveyard trees. A forest of lore!

This is signing off! Wishing everyone a lore filled week 🌞

🌳🦝🍃🍄🔥🍎🐍🍂🦉🏕️🐛🌲

Arthur Rackham 1920

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According to The Impudent Edda, Iron Wood is where ”all the evil troll women live” and Thor enjoys going on rampages there with his buddies, Snarler and Tooth-Grinder. https://t.co/ILLicAkffN

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Djinni live in all manner of places but a popular place is the shadows of tree, hoping to get out of the sun. So, when hiding from the sun yourself, watch your step and make clear your presence: Djinni are rarely forgiving of the insult of sitting on them.

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Kodama are the spirits of old trees in deep forests in Japan. Rarely seen as orbs of light or tiny vaguely human shapes, they are more often heard, as echoes that are just slightly oddly delayed art https://t.co/wKUGD2ckMf

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2021

"Folklore" (1981)

Commemorative stamps series
Designed by Fritz Wegner, 41x 30 mm
Great Britain 🇬🇧

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This weeks theme is trees and forests... which all fits rather neatly with my Dragons of the Dark Woods book 🙂 Anyway, here are a few of the forest’s stranger and scarier residents...

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In Finnish mythology, Mielikki is the goddess of healing and protector of wounded animals. Tapio is the god of the forest. Together they live in a wooden castle deep in the forest where they watch over the wild animals.🎨Boris Vallejo/Julie Bell

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Protector of uncultivated woods and wild places, the Roman god Silvanus loves things that grow at their own pace, whether field or forest. He protects against overbearing humans but also against wolves that might steal cattle, making him popular.

🖼: MatsyaDas

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Much like apples in Celtic folklore, in Chinese folklore peach trees symbolize immortality and/or longevity. Peaches were eaten during "The Feast of the Peaches" hosted by the Queen Mother of the West and the Jade Emperor, uniting divine and mortal existence.

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A Loki Kenning for

Geðreynir Gauts herþrumu:
Mind-tester of the warrior of battle-thunder

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'Deer in the Forest' - Eugen Kruger, 19th century.

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'The Three Bears' written by Leo Tolstoy, based on 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears' and illustrated by Yuri Vasnetsov in 1977.

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Druids are associated with keeping groves for their sacred meetings, cultivating elder, ash, yew, and apple trees depending on the Celtic culture. From Asia Minor to Brittany, Galicia to Scotland, the oak held the universal centerpiece as most important tree

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'The Three Bears' written by Leo Tolstoy, based on 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears' and illustrated by Yuri Vasnetsov in 1977.

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Woodland animals & their young:
Badger – boar, sow & cub
Stoat – jack, jill & kit
Hare – buck, doe, kit
Otter - Dog, bitch, pup
Hedgehog – Boar, sow, hoglet
Fox – Dog, vixen, cub
Deer – buck, hind, faun
Squirrel – buck, doe & pup

(🎨R Sheppard)

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🌿🌙🌿In Lincolnshire the leaves and wood from a female, berried, Rowan tree or 'Sheder' were used to break the spells of male Witches, and charms made from the male, berryless 'Heder' were used to counter those of a female Witch.

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In Irish folklore, the hare is associated with the otherworld and transformation. A fairy hare by day and an old hag by night, poor Feilim found out the hard way that he didn't deserve good fortune after hurting the

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The Bugul Noz is a poor, lonely creature who roams the woodland of Brittany, France & believes himself so ugly that he warns others of his approach by wailing/crying. He uses fear to shepherd people to their safe homes and away from the forest in the dark.

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Why does the old rhyme tell of 'Gathering nuts in May' when no nuts grow?
It seems to be a corruption of 'knots' of May blossom, gathered to celebrate May-tide.


(Nature through the seasons in colour 🎨P Chadwick)

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