1/3 The fey are divided into two courts -Seelie and Unseelie. (seelie=holy) Both are unpredictable, but Seelie court is more likely to be helpful to humans rather than harm them. redbubble.com/shop/ap/3446... #FolkloreSunday #fairies #folklore #fairytale #homedecor #art #mythology

In the Irish language, hedgehogs are called Gráinneog, which translates as 'ugly little thing'. They were thought to be witches in disguise & were hunted during the witch trials.
🎨Beatrix Potter redbubble.com/shop/ap/3585... #FolkloreSunday #art #vintage #illustration #decor #folklore

In Swedish #folklore, a vargamor is a witch who lives in the forest and consorts with wolves. In some versions she will use her allure to provide victims to the wolves.
🎨Harry Clarke redbubble.com/shop/ap/3728... #FolkloreSunday #art #illustration #mythology #fairytale #witches

The Malleus Maleficarum stated that red hair was the sign of a #witch, #werewolf or #vampire. It was believed the red hair came from stealing the fires of hell.
🎨Franz von Stuck redbubble.com/shop/ap/3540... #FolkloreSunday #gothic #art #wallart #folklore #fineart #giftidea

The pwca is the black-furred Welsh version of the pooka - a forest goblin trickster. Sometimes a pwca uses a magic candle to lead travelers off the path, and other times a pwca transforms into a black animal, such a horse, and entices travelers to chase it.
🎨Tony DiTerlizzi
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WIDDERSHINS means moving counter clockwise; this inversion of the natural order was associated with the devil and witchcraft. In this image #WITCHES delight in flying widdershins around North Berwick church with their broomsticks #FolkloreSunday #31daysofHalloween

A Long Compton woman, a reputed witch, lay dying surrounded by relatives. She begged
them to leave but after hearing bangs & crashes they rushed back in to see a black pigeon
fly out the window. The woman was dead and her possessions were strewn about the room.
#FolkloreSunday

Fairy doors #FolkloreSunday medieval lore spoke of fairy mounds, fairy forts, and natural openings in the earth or hillsides that served as portals to an underground realm. historymedieval.com/medieval-fai...

In English folklore, witches used familiars (imps, often in animal form) to work mischief. The 17th century Elizabeth Clarke supposedly had a whole menagerie of them - and set them on "Witchfinder General" Mathew Hopkins!
#FolkloreSunday

Sunday

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

The Gwrach y Rhibyn is a malevolent spirit in Welsh folklore that resembles an old hag with leathery wings. At night, she goes to the window of a person about to die to call their name, or travels invisibly beside them and utters her cry when they approach a stream or crossroads.
#FolkloreSunday

The last of October’s birth flowers is the marigold. Its sun-like flowers have the power to strengthen and comfort the heart, and cure melancholy. A spoonful of marigold jam taken at breakfast each morning will protect you from witches & enable you to see fairies. #FolkloreSunday

‘We still regard the beautiful red cup-moss as the fairies’ baths’ (1868)

#folkloresunday

2 of most common Irish myths of #fairies to do with farming/agriculture is they steal the cow's milk/turn it sour & they've been reported as making gates on fields disappear; more theft! BUT, put a St Brigid's cross nearby & they are more likely to be safe! #WritersLift #Ireland #FolkloreSunday 🧚‍♀️🐄

🌿🛡️🌿'Elfin Knight' - by Brian Froud.
#FolkloreSunday #MythologyMonday #FairyTaleTuesday

🍃💚🍃"I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side."

📖Emily Brontë
#BookWormSat #FolkloreSunday

🪾💜🪾'Fairy Folk By An Old Gnarled Tree' - by Arthur Rackham.
#FolkloreThursday #FolkWitchFriday #FolkloreSunday

#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: `Hares were sent by the dwellers in the hill to warn mortals if they trespassed too closely into forbidden places, or sought to damage or destroy the old mounds. So if you happen to be in the wild places of Ireland when the moon waxes […]

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#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: `Hares were sent by the dwellers in the hill to warn mortals if they trespassed too closely into forbidden places, or sought to damage or destroy the old mounds.
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#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: `Hares in Ireland have long been seen as mysterious creatures, deeply connected to the #Otherworld and the subject of legend, song and story. Their association with the realms of the fairies and good folk led the old Druids to capture and release them in a place with
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