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

🪶Art by Arthur Rackham, for Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.🌙
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The Wild Huntsman hunts the sprits of the forest for his own unfathomable reasons.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Wild_Huntsman_and_the_Moss_Women

The poet & artist William Blake claimed to have witnessed a fairy funeral in his garden: "I saw a procession of creatures ... bearing a body laid out on a roseleaf, which they buried with sings & then disappeared" #MythologyMonday #folklore #gothic #poets #weird #Romanticism #art #arthistory #poetry

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www.amazon.com/Una-Unicorn-... #MythologyMonday #LegendaryWednesday #amreading #parentssky #dadssky #momssky #momlife #momsky #booksky #earlyreaders #carouselsandunicorns #goodbooks #goodbooksforkids #bookrec #booktok #instagram

The "Diales" of the Engadine Valley were female spirits with the feet of goats, which made their human neighbors suspicious of them.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Diales

One widespread fairy belief warns against eating food in the Otherworld. Accepting fairy hospitality could bind a mortal to the supernatural realm or make returning home impossible. It's one of folklore's strangest recurring warnings: sometimes the feast is the trap. #MythologyMonday

IRISH MYTH of FALLEN FAIRIES
'FAIRIES are the FALLEN angels who were cast down by the Lord God out of heaven for their sinful pride. Some fell into the sea & some on dry land & the devil gives these knowledge & power ' Lady Wilde, 187I #MythologyMonday #31daysofHalloween

#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `The specialized brownie called the gruagach in the Hebrides seems to have been divine at some point, for until recently milk offerings were poured over its sacred stones to convince the gruagach to guard the herds.
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#MythologyMonday: `The specialized brownie called the gruagach in the Hebrides seems to have been divine at some point, for until recently milk offerings were poured over its sacred stones to convince the gruagach to guard the herds.
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The fairy ring was believed in parts of European folklore to mark a place where fairies danced. Entering one could bring enchantment, illness or a terrifying distortion of time. The mushrooms are real; the supernatural dance is folklore. Both make the circle intriguing. #MythologyMonday

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Before pumpkins, carved turnips glowed in the Irish darkness.

Their fearsome faces were said to ward off unwelcome spirits at #Samhain, when the Veil between worlds grew thin.

A little light to keep the otherworld’s mischief at bay. 🧚‍♀️🎃✨
#Fae #Irishlore 🍀 🕯️ #TurnipLanterns

While it's great to have a forest spirit as your girlfriend, you should keep in mind that they are easily offended.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Shepherd_and_the_Forest_Woman

In Icelandic folklore, elves are said to inhabit the large volcanic rocks found all over the island. Locals will sometimes paint doors on the rocks or construct tiny houses on them, making little shrines to mark where the elves are so they won't get disturbed.
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If a relative is taken by the fairies and a changeling left in their stead, you have one chance to get them back in some lore: you must go to where the fey are known to congregate on the next full moon and there negotiate with the joyful taken. #MythologyMonday

🖼️: E. Hughes

Fairy comes from the Old French faie, which referred to a woman powerful in magic, word, or craft. This evolved to Fairy, Fey, etc. over time. Beings we call fey have other names: for example in Gaelic they are aos si, among other terms. #MythologyMonday

🖼: B. Froud

It seems that fairy lore, from Italy to the Hebrides, is the lore of the land, the lore of those who came before: fairies are most strongly tied to cairns, to burial mounds, and to sites of great importance, and those spirits remain with us, reminders of the land #MythologyMonday

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As #Autumn draws us towards #Samhain, imagine the veil thinning, and your cat keeping watch.
Could those sharp eyes pierce fairy glamour and glimpse the Fae beneath their disguises?
Perhaps that empty corner isn’t empty after all. ✨
#Fairylore #catlore

🎨 John Anster Fitzgerald

St. Collen was a Welsh saint who was invited by the fairy king Gwyn ap Nudd to feast with him at his lovely fairy court on Glastonbury Tor. Collen revealed that he knew that the court's red colors derived from hellfire and the blue colors from death's chill. The court then vanished.
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