This print of the second of Aled Thompson's Blodeuwedd illustrations has arrived, just in time to share her story once again, for #FairyTaleTuesday !
Crafted out of flowers by the wizard Gwydion, to be a wife for his nephew Lleu, the enchanted Blodeuwedd rebels against the purpose of her creation.

#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `An islander from Iniskea Island missed the currach going to Belmullet Fair. A seal said to him, 'Sure l'm going to the fair myself, so hop on my back.` The seal swam out with his passenger, who soon noticed that there was a convoy […]

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#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `An islander from Iniskea Island missed the currach going to Belmullet Fair.
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The German Nachzehrer was a peculiar revenant said to chew its own burial shroud while remaining inside the grave. Its chewing supposedly drained life from surviving relatives. Some communities tried to stop it by placing objects in the corpse's mouth. #FairyTaleTuesday

The Romanian strigoi could be restless dead or supernatural beings who troubled the living. Some traditions held that suspected strigoi returned to their own families. Forget elegant strangers in capes. The vampire might be a relative who refused to stay buried. #FairyTaleTuesday

In 1725, Serbian villagers accused Petar Blagojević of returning from the grave and killing nine people. An official report described his exhumation and the villagers' belief that his corpse showed signs of vampirism. Europe was about to develop a serious vampire obsession. #FairyTaleTuesday

The changeling appears in European folklore as a being left in place of a human child supposedly taken by fairies. These stories could reflect historical attempts to explain illness or developmental differences and sometimes led to cruelty. Not all fairy beliefs were harmless. #FairyTaleTuesday

Tuesday

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#TerrierTuesday
#TextileTuesday
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In Welsh folklore, King Arthur needed to acquire the two pups of the She-Wolf of Rhymi to hunt the monstrous boar Trwyth. When Arthur's men cornered this wolf, a divine miracle removed the curse she was under, and so she regained her true form: a human princess.
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#FairyTaleTuesday Visualising Vampires: The Undead in Art and Culture
Considering ancient and modern representations that influenced our perception of these bloodthirsty fiends
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The Roman goddess Cardea guarded door hinges and thresholds. In Ovid’s Fasti, she touches doorposts with strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo) leaves to protect an infant from the striges, vampire-like night birds sometimes said to be witches transformed by magic. #FairytaleTuesday

The man wolves of Ossory is a tale about 2 people cursed to be werewolves by St Natalis! A priest meets them. The male explains that his wife is ill; the priest performs last rites; she transforms back to human! 🎨Topographia Hibernica by Gerald of Wales, c. 1200. #medievalsky #FairyTaleTuesday

🪾💫🪾"Come, now a roundel and a Fairy song..."

🪶Art by Arthur Rackham, for Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.🌙
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There is an old rule in Irish country places that no one should pick a blackberry once the month of October is over. By the first of November, the people said, the puca had been over the hedges, and the fruit that remained was spoiled.
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#Puca #IrishFolklore #Fairies #FairyTaleTuesday #Ireland

The familiar skull and crossbones on early American gravestones wasn't necessarily meant to frighten anyone. Puritan-era "death's head" carvings bluntly reminded viewers that death comes for everyone. Later, winged cherubs gradually replaced some of those grinning skulls. #FairyTaleTuesday

Gef was allegedly a talking mongoose who inhabited the farmhouse of the Irving family on the Isle of Man in the 1930s. At different times, Gef claimed to be an "extra-extra-clever mongoose" or an "earthbound spirit." The story was extensively covered by the 1930s British tabloids.
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#FairyTaleTuesday: `#Fairies and ghosts were attracted to the hearth, especially at pivotal days such as #Samhain. On that night, ghosts of the deceased would sometimes be seen warming themselves by the hearth-fire or sitting in their accustomed place, calmly […]

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#FairyTaleTuesday: `#Fairies and ghosts were attracted to the hearth, especially at pivotal days such as #Samhain. On that night, ghosts of the deceased would sometimes be seen warming themselves by the hearth-fire or sitting in their accustomed place, calmly smoking or knitting.`
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A broken column on a gravestone traditionally symbolized a life cut short. An inverted torch could represent death while its still-burning flame suggested life continuing beyond it. Victorian cemeteries weren't simply burial grounds. They were libraries written in stone. #FairyTaleTuesday