#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: `The leannán sídhe (lit. 'fairy lover') is depicted as a beautiful woman of the Aos Sí ("people of the fairy mounds") who takes a human lover. Lovers of the leannán sídhe are said to live brief, though highly inspired, lives.
The name […]

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#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: `The leannán sídhe (lit. 'fairy lover') is depicted as a beautiful woman of the Aos Sí ("people of the fairy mounds") who takes a human lover. Lovers of the leannán sídhe are said to live brief, though highly inspired, lives.
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Few American cemeteries can claim the gothic scenery and majesty of New Orleans' plethora of above ground mausoleums and family crypts. Dating back to before it was American, there are untold ghost sightings and all manner of spooky encounters within. #FolkloreSunday

#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: `The vough, a terrifying female Bogie or Kelpie, was the most fearful apparition encountered in the #Scottish Highlands. Although usually female, the vough occasionally appeared as male. Both had webbed feet and noseless faces; they […]

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#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: `The vough, a terrifying female Bogie or Kelpie, was the most fearful apparition encountered in the #Scottish Highlands. Although usually female, the vough occasionally appeared as male.
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#VAMPIRES transitioned from dishevelled peasants into alluring aristocrats with irresistible powers of seduction when #Polidori reshaped the folk material from which they grew. Lord Ruthven, a libertine, emerged from his lair into the drawing rooms of England in 1819 #FolkloreSunday

#FolkloreSunday Dracula: Bram Stoker Meets Francis Ford Coppola
James V. Hart & Coppola's take becomes a romantic one—a love story between Dracula & Mina. Coppola described this relationship as two “souls reaching out through a universe of horror & pathos” dc.cod.edu/cgi/viewcont...

GOTHIC LOVES
Mary Shelley is rumoured to have kept Percy Shelley's heart in a silken shroud, carrying it with her for years. After she died it is said that the heart was found in her desk wrapped in his poems. It's hard to out goth that! #FolkloreSunday 🎨encased embalmed hearts

Sunday

#AncientSiteSunday
#CeilingsonSunday
#FolkloreSunday
#SaxonSunday
#SevenOnSunday
#ShakespeareSunday
#ShieldSunday
#SignsOnSunday or #SundaySigns
#SilentSunday
#skysunday
#SpoliaSunday
#StainedGlassSunday
#StandingStoneSunday

Forbidden lovers Pyramus and Thisbe are sometimes called the original Romeo and Juliet. In Ovid’s tale, a tragic misunderstanding leads to both their deaths under a mulberry tree. Their blood stains its once-white fruit dark red, forever marking their doomed love. #FolkloreSunday