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🍂The Cat Sidhe tells of his encounter with the White Stag.🍂
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The Cottingley Fairies were an early photographic hoax conducted by two young girls, Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, who were 16 and 9. They used paper cutouts from a picture book and succeeded in fooling many people.

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Happy Fairy nobility may have all the ballads and folktales told about them but don't overlook the smaller, mischievous fae. The hay fever pollen fairies are the bane of my summer!

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6. Victorian Painting, ed. by Jeremy Maas - lavishly illustrated and with indispensable articles on fairy writing, fairy music, fairies on the stage, etc.

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The Still-folk of central Germany hoard gold, silver, and precious stones. Mortals may access these chambers using a Key-flower (Schlüsselblume). [Art by Tove Jansson via ]

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The rudest fairy is the Barabao, only found in Venice. It creeps into bedrooms through the keyhole and lifts the bed covers to spy on lovers. In the past, it hid in chamber pots to peek at the bottoms above it...

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Heck, let’s bump https://t.co/oArVoLNN1O for too- our strong inspiration for Gemini Journey is our love for myth, fairy tale, and folklore! The story structures, plots, setting, characters, and art are all inspired by them.

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On the Isle of Man, it is believed that if you step on a patch of St. John's Wort at sunset, a fairy horse will rise from the earth.🐴 It will happily carry you around all night before depositing you in your usual haunts at sunrise!

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An illustration of the Fairy King and Queen from 1910. They ruled the fairies.

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Mostly vampire legends are from European folklore, similar references are found most notably in Hebrew & Greek mythology. Lilith a female demon known to prey on the blood of babies. & Ambrogio of Greek myth, who fell for the sun god, Apollo's woman.

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Greetings This is sending a big shout out to for the last session. We are here for the next 90 minutes to join you on a magical journey through the lands of the little people.
An elf and a fairy kissing - Fairy Land by Richard Doyle.

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FAIRIES & THE DEAD Evans Wentz (1911) recorded the Highland belief in hosts as the evil dead & Cornish Peskies as the souls of unbaptised babies, appearing at Twilight in the form of moths Images: Pirner 1888; Highgate; white plume moth

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Known as Pharisees & famous for their love of dancing; the last Fairies in England lived in the Sussex Downs - from The Spectator 1908: 'Pharisees & Fairy Rings'.

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[img Blake,1786]

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Isobel and her coven flew through the air, shooting anyone they wished - the souls of their victims went to heaven, but their bodies remained as soul-less husks with the witches. (Artist: Peter Nicolai Arbo)

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The Welsh fairy folk (Tylwyth Teg) were said to be small in stature with golden hair. They were thought to live under hollow hills and in deep rock crevices, and believed to frequent ancient places such as Barrows and Cromlechs Image - Thomas Maybank.

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According to Cornish folklore, young girls were often transported to fairyland after breaking fern fronds. They would be confronted by a 'fairy widower' and would agree to look after his son with the promise:

'For a year and a day,
I promise to stay'

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From the poem The Stolen Child by W. B. Yeats
Painting is The Changeling by Henry Fuseli

"Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."

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Fairy rings are circles of mushrooms caused by elves, fairies, or witches dancing in a circle. Their rich folklore stretches back to the medieval period but almost always agree on one thing - you should never enter a fairy ring! https://t.co/5f0kwlh9nP

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Fairy paintings are strongly rooted in the literary and theatrical influences of Romanticism, as well as in the cultural issues facing the Victorian era. Henry Fuseli and William Blake produced works that would be indicative of the later genre even before 1800.

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