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Fairies of Northern Appalachia is OUT NOW!

I’m so excited to say that “Fairies of Northern Appalachia: A History of the Little People of the Mountains” is out everywhere now.

The book collects old and new folklore from Pennsylvania, West Virginia, eastern Ohio, Virginia, eastern Kentucky, and western Maryland. It features Pennsylvania Dutch, Scots Irish, Irish, and Cornish traditions, among others.

Here you’ll find stories about banshees, tommyknockers, gnomes, mountain dwarves, household spirits, wassernixen, fairy queens, fairy witches, Appalachian pygmies, and arrow-shooting elves.

The painting on the cover is “The Fairy Favourite” by John Anster Fitzgerald, which I thought perfectly captured the strangeness and diversity of Appalachian fairies. The carving on the back cover is by artist Joan Reed.

You can find it at your local bookstore or at Amazon. The book is also available in a beautiful hardcover (see below).

Fairies of Northern Appalachia is OUT NOW!

I’m so excited to say that “Fairies of Northern Appalachia: A History of the Little People of the Mountains” is out everywhere now.

The book collects old and new folklore from Pennsylvania, West Virginia, eastern Ohio, Virginia, eastern Kentucky, and western Maryland. It features Pennsylvania Dutch, Scots Irish, Irish, and Cornish traditions, among others.

Here you’ll find stories about banshees, tommyknockers, gnomes, mountain dwarves, household spirits, wassernixen, fairy queens, fairy witches, Appalachian pygmies, and arrow-shooting elves.

The painting on the cover is “The Fairy Favourite” by John Anster Fitzgerald, which I thought perfectly captured the strangeness and diversity of Appalachian fairies. The carving on the back cover is by artist Joan Reed.

You can find it at your local bookstore or at Amazon. The book is also available in a beautiful hardcover (see below).

Faërie ~ Faelings

The Treebard Fairy Quuen banishes the disobedient fae to the hole below the ocean.
Faeries here still cross into our world, by climbing
flying
or swimming on the branches of the light the darkness in the water.
From there the sinkhole extends and crosses until it swallows the earth from the other side.
In the middle of the forest, the banished fae were free to return
They either pushed everyone out
or people were too afraid to approach them, so they departed

The Gàeldīn became the new name for that corrupted patch of forest.

Soon the Faelings had their own queen
This is what happens when they are left to their own devices.

She is a reflection of her people
But with the haunting beauty of a female animal

She grew to an abnormal height
A tall fairy among her people
but lacking thickness in the thighs, no birthing allowed for her
Almost a death sentence for a treebard fairy
Her body is brown all over, with a pale-cream underbelly
like an animal
a sweet, sweet lion, sheep or hare
her horns are a darker shade of her exterior color, curved perfectly like as if they had been sanded into shape.

She has no eyes on most days
Staring right into the sun, screaming at it with all the internal rage
The sun reinvigorates her eyes.
black cream and goop dither outward and stream down cold cheeks when she isn’t feeling bad

This form is not reflected in her people
Instead they walk around with things missing
Missing lower jaws, mouthless faeries scaring anyone who doesn’t look beyond exterior faults
Missing lower arms, a missing eye—or two—more than one thing can go missing

“You deteriorate the longer you stay around this corruption.”
This is the punishment
But
Truth is
These particular Fae deteriorate when they are not around love and happiness
They will lose limbs and organs regardless in the face of corruption
But, with love they will last forever
They just need and want an outsider to show them love

Their throats slide open, tendrils poking out and eager to see you
Don’t hurt him!
He is the last thing you need to run away from

A faerie takes this frightened, wandering boy deeper into the forest

“I will be your father now.”

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Faërie ~ Faelings

The Treebard Fairy Quuen banishes the disobedient fae to the hole below the ocean.
Faeries here still cross into our world, by climbing
flying
or swimming on the branches of the light the darkness in the water.
From there the sinkhole extends and crosses until it swallows the earth from the other side.
In the middle of the forest, the banished fae were free to return
They either pushed everyone out
or people were too afraid to approach them, so they departed

The Gàeldīn became the new name for that corrupted patch of forest.

Soon the Faelings had their own queen
This is what happens when they are left to their own devices.

She is a reflection of her people
But with the haunting beauty of a female animal

She grew to an abnormal height
A tall fairy among her people
but lacking thickness in the thighs, no birthing allowed for her
Almost a death sentence for a treebard fairy
Her body is brown all over, with a pale-cream underbelly
like an animal
a sweet, sweet lion, sheep or hare
her horns are a darker shade of her exterior color, curved perfectly like as if they had been sanded into shape.

She has no eyes on most days
Staring right into the sun, screaming at it with all the internal rage
The sun reinvigorates her eyes.
black cream and goop dither outward and stream down cold cheeks when she isn’t feeling bad

This form is not reflected in her people
Instead they walk around with things missing
Missing lower jaws, mouthless faeries scaring anyone who doesn’t look beyond exterior faults
Missing lower arms, a missing eye—or two—more than one thing can go missing

“You deteriorate the longer you stay around this corruption.”
This is the punishment
But
Truth is
These particular Fae deteriorate when they are not around love and happiness
They will lose limbs and organs regardless in the face of corruption
But, with love they will last forever
They just need and want an outsider to show them love

Their throats slide open, tendrils poking out and eager to see you
Don’t hurt him!
He is the last thing you need to run away from

A faerie takes this frightened, wandering boy deeper into the forest

“I will be your father now.”

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Went for a nice Saturday ride with wife, about 20 miles. She on an ebike and me on the old Peugeot. I'd still like it with a little lower gear range but perhaps it's making me stronger? Bike felt really good today (someone can chip in with "steel is real!"). ';^)
No idea if they've always been there, but on a nondescript section of ditch I've ridden by dozens of times I noticed a half dozen tiny fairies today.
#BikeTooter #BloomScrolling #butterflies #Fairies

Went for a nice Saturday ride with wife, about 20 miles. She on an ebike and me on the old Peugeot. I'd still like it with a little lower gear range but perhaps it's making me stronger? Bike felt really good today (someone can chip in with "steel is real!"). ';^)
No idea if they've always been there, but on a nondescript section of ditch I've ridden by dozens of times I noticed a half dozen tiny fairies today.
#BikeTooter #BloomScrolling #butterflies #Fairies

••⋅☾ #連作 ☽⋅••

Lady of Flowers

••⋅☾ #Rensaku ☽⋅••

#Poetry #詩 #NMPoetry #DailyHaikuPrompt #Smoldering #Time #Chestnut #Fairy #Fairies #Fae #Tanka #和歌 #短歌 #Flowers #WildFlowers #Haiga #俳画 #Photography #マストドン写真部 #写真

From 'Sea Fairies' by John Real Neill, 1911. Nope, me neither. I guess it's supposed to be a crab but... I find the artist's middle name 'Real' highly suspect.
#fairy #fairies #mermaid #monster #crab #illustration #weird #weirdart #art

From 'Sea Fairies' by John Real Neill, 1911. Nope, me neither. I guess it's supposed to be a crab but... I find the artist's middle name 'Real' highly suspect.
#fairy #fairies #mermaid #monster #crab #illustration #weird #weirdart #art

'Falstaff And Fairies At The Oak' from 'The Merry Wives of Windsor'. A not terribly accomplished illustration by Edward Bird, early 19th Century, but it has a certain rustic charm. A man sitting under an oak tree and wearing antlers offers a rather #pagan aspect.
#ShakespeareSunday #fairy #fairies

Something cheerful to start the week: 'Fairies And Squirrels In A Forest' by Richard Doyle.
#fairy #fairies #faerie #squirrel #landscape #art

Dan MacLise, 'Pan And The Dancing Fairies'.
#Pan #fairy #fairies #faerie #art

Astronaut Don Pettit described the light flashes crossing his eyes on the International Space Station as ‘luminous dancing fairies’ — the same cosmic rays Apollo crews reported, still arriving decades later above your head tonight
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=astronaut-don-pettit-described-the-light-flashes-crossing-his-eyes-on-the-international-space-station-as-luminous-dancing-fairies-the-same-cosmic-rays-apollo-crews-reported-still-arriving-decades-later-above-your-head-tonight
<p>Astronaut Don Pettit called them &#039;luminous dancing fairies&#039
#astronaut #luminous #dancing #fairies

Astronaut Don Pettit described the light flashes crossing his eyes on the International Space Station as ‘luminous dancing fairies’ — the same cosmic rays Apollo crews reported, still arriving decades later above your head tonight
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=astronaut-don-pettit-described-the-light-flashes-crossing-his-eyes-on-the-international-space-station-as-luminous-dancing-fairies-the-same-cosmic-rays-apollo-crews-reported-still-arriving-decades-later-above-your-head-tonight
<p>Astronaut Don Pettit called them &#039;luminous dancing fairies&#039
#astronaut #luminous #dancing #fairies

If what Shakespeare wrote is any indication, it can be seriously trying at times, but how fine must it be to spend this season in the realm of the fairies...

Painted by John Simmons: "Hermia and Lysander".

#art #traditionalart #summer #fairies #Shakespeare #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl

If what Shakespeare wrote is any indication, it can be seriously trying at times, but how fine must it be to spend this season in the realm of the fairies...

Painted by John Simmons: "Hermia and Lysander".

#art #traditionalart #summer #fairies #Shakespeare #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl

I'm slightly averse to Victorian cutesy-pie pix of #fairies but we all seem to be in a fairy tale mood this week, and since this one, by John George Naish, is entitled 'Midsummer Fairies' (1856), I've cast aside my grumpiness and present it in all its twee glory.
#Midsummer #faerie #Victorian #art

Welsh #fairies were especially active on Nos Wyl Ifan, seeking human babies to steal. An old Welsh poem, (translated) reads:
"Many a lovely child they've taken,
      When long and bitter was the pain
From their parents, loving, dear,
       To the Fairies' dread domain."
#WyrdWednesday #fairies

Welsh #fairies were especially active on Nos Wyl Ifan, seeking human babies to steal. An old Welsh poem, (translated) reads:
"Many a lovely child they've taken,
      When long and bitter was the pain
From their parents, loving, dear,
       To the Fairies' dread domain."
#WyrdWednesday #fairies

I was talking to a friend last week about a personal/work project I had about 10 years ago where every month or so, I had to change my mind (properly!) about something I believed in – Which in this case, meant I had to go and seek things out because it’s really hard to do every month unless it’s active.

It’s half of the reason I spent so long embedded in Flat-Earth and Scientology; the other half was that I was researching pathways to radicalisation and trying to trace a lot of them to the source and exit.

I was listening to a Sherlock Holmes podcast yesterday and realised that being able to change your mind completely about something is a core investigative skill (and this is how I increased my B2B sales… No! No… Away with you LinkedIn!).

Good investigative technique means having a theory of the case from the start, but then, importantly, it means deliberately challenging it and then changing it, when new evidence emerges. It can be a lot of paperwork and mental gymnastics. Sticking to the original theory of a case and looking for evidence to support it is what created the Birmingham Six and the Central Park Five. Completely irresponsible and incompetent police work and static minds are a liability to any good casework (see also: Donald Trump who is still trying to execute the CP5).

This isn’t really going anywhere except to note that although Sherlock was excellent at changing case-theories (and does so a lot in the books), his creator, Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle, of Cottingley Fairies and Harry Houdini feud fame, was so bad at it that he’d certainly have had a leadership role waiting in the West Midlands Police any time.

Ironically, the person in his most famous stories that he can be most said to resemble, is Lestrade of the Yard.

#Books #SherlockHomes #Detective #Investigation #TrustAndSafety #Fairies #Police #Crime #Houdini #Ramblings #ASIS #FlatEarth #Scientology #Radicalization #LinkedIn #B2B

I was talking to a friend last week about a personal/work project I had about 10 years ago where every month or so, I had to change my mind (properly!) about something I believed in – Which in this case, meant I had to go and seek things out because it’s really hard to do every month unless it’s active.

It’s half of the reason I spent so long embedded in Flat-Earth and Scientology; the other half was that I was researching pathways to radicalisation and trying to trace a lot of them to the source and exit.

I was listening to a Sherlock Holmes podcast yesterday and realised that being able to change your mind completely about something is a core investigative skill (and this is how I increased my B2B sales… No! No… Away with you LinkedIn!).

Good investigative technique means having a theory of the case from the start, but then, importantly, it means deliberately challenging it and then changing it, when new evidence emerges. It can be a lot of paperwork and mental gymnastics. Sticking to the original theory of a case and looking for evidence to support it is what created the Birmingham Six and the Central Park Five. Completely irresponsible and incompetent police work and static minds are a liability to any good casework (see also: Donald Trump who is still trying to execute the CP5).

This isn’t really going anywhere except to note that although Sherlock was excellent at changing case-theories (and does so a lot in the books), his creator, Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle, of Cottingley Fairies and Harry Houdini feud fame, was so bad at it that he’d certainly have had a leadership role waiting in the West Midlands Police any time.

Ironically, the person in his most famous stories that he can be most said to resemble, is Lestrade of the Yard.

#Books #SherlockHomes #Detective #Investigation #TrustAndSafety #Fairies #Police #Crime #Houdini #Ramblings #ASIS #FlatEarth #Scientology #Radicalization #LinkedIn #B2B

Midsummer mood

#mood #cinemagifs #fillm #cinemastodon #Midsummer #fae #fairies

Midsummer mood

#mood #cinemagifs #fillm #cinemastodon #Midsummer #fae #fairies

Happy Solstice Day! Here is 'Midsummer' by William Blake.
#WilliamBlake #Blake #fairies #faerie #Solstice

Happy Solstice Day! Here is 'Midsummer' by William Blake.
#WilliamBlake #Blake #fairies #faerie #Solstice

Kesäyötä sopii virittäytyä unelmoimaan vaikkapa Klempererin 1960 johtaman Mendelssohn-esityksen myötä, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upMKlLVblzY

Sävellyksestä kertoo lisää Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream_(Mendelssohn), kuten Shakespearen näytelmästäkin, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream, josta Paavo Cajanderin 1891 suomennos löytyy tuolta: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44831/44831-h/44831-h.htm

#mendelssohn #juhannus #midsummer #music #classical #shakespeare #musiikki #klassinen #naytelma #play #keijut #fairies #taika #magic #mystery #janetBaker #brag #summerSolstice #mittsommer

Kesäyötä sopii virittäytyä unelmoimaan vaikkapa Klempererin 1960 johtaman Mendelssohn-esityksen myötä, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upMKlLVblzY

Sävellyksestä kertoo lisää Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream_(Mendelssohn), kuten Shakespearen näytelmästäkin, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream, josta Paavo Cajanderin 1891 suomennos löytyy tuolta: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44831/44831-h/44831-h.htm

#mendelssohn #juhannus #midsummer #music #classical #shakespeare #musiikki #klassinen #naytelma #play #keijut #fairies #taika #magic #mystery #janetBaker #brag #summerSolstice #mittsommer

Earlier this summer I read the 1926 fantasy novel "Lud-in-the-Mist" by Hope Mirrlees. In addition to being amused with reading the novel exactly 100 years since its publication, I was surprised at how modern its depiction of Faerie felt. I won't spoil it more than that, but you can get a copy at Project Gutenberg if you'd like to check it out:

https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/68061

#literature #fantasy #Faerie #fae #fey #fairy #fairies #ProjectGutenberg #1920s

Earlier this summer I read the 1926 fantasy novel "Lud-in-the-Mist" by Hope Mirrlees. In addition to being amused with reading the novel exactly 100 years since its publication, I was surprised at how modern its depiction of Faerie felt. I won't spoil it more than that, but you can get a copy at Project Gutenberg if you'd like to check it out:

https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/68061

#literature #fantasy #Faerie #fae #fey #fairy #fairies #ProjectGutenberg #1920s

Winding of the Fae #1

Wind and wind and wind

Until the world has been wound

It is a job for a Faerie to wind the branches of the fir tree

It is the job of the dragons to wind the sun

Wind and wind and wind

Until all branches are tied

Wind their legs

Wind their arms

Wind their wings

Wind a fairy until they are tied

Wind and wind and wind

Until all limbs are wound

Sing the song, Sublime Reaction, until all limbs are wound

Sacrifice to the fir tree and unwind it’s branches

In the harrowing of daytime,

Where sunlight strikes through trees like a double-edged knife,

Wind

You start to wind

You guide the branches of the tree as you turn your hands like a swivel

Wind and wind and wind

Until all trees are “wund”

Wund, not wound

Wind and wind and wind,

‘tis a job for a faerie

And a faerie, nothing more

She is alien like all the rest

He is alien like all the rest.

The fairy pictured calls herself the Whole Numbers Fairy. A mathematician and proficient in fairy math, she stayed in Lindendale after its construction, and later moved to Elf city, Salvedmirar (also known as Savladamir).

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We just published a number of really adorable retro flower fairies by artist Cicely Mary Barker more to our thrift shop. They are really sweet pieces of art!

They are from the “Flower Fairies”-series (postcard book) by Penguin Books

https://postkartenfundbuero.com/shop-2/?artist=cicely-mary-barker&department=thrift-shop

#postcard #flower #fairies