#FairyTaleTuesday
Enchantress Circe used potions to transform people into animals, and [despite foretelling their deaths] to help Odysseus' crew navigate the Sirens, Scylla, Charybdis & Helios' Island. Their boat was ultimately destroyed by Zeus' thunderbolt.
🎨Linda & Roger Garland / Jan Styka
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In Welsh folklore, Orddu (the Very Black Witch) dwelt in the Valley of Desolation, on the border of Earth and Hell. Her great strength defeated many of King Arthur's warriors. However, Arthur was able to acquire her blood, which was needed to give the giant king Ysbaddaden a shave.
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In Welsh folklore, Orddu (the Very Black Witch) dwelt in the Valley of Desolation, on the border of Earth and Hell. Her great strength defeated many of King Arthur's warriors. However, Arthur was able to acquire her blood, which was needed to give the giant king Ysbaddaden a shave.
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La Lechuza is a white owl who is in fact a witch, appearing as a massive raptor who preys on souls at night from the Rio Grande Valley on down. Any white owl could be her: so beware. #FairytaleTuesday
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La Lechuza is a white owl who is in fact a witch, appearing as a massive raptor who preys on souls at night from the Rio Grande Valley on down. Any white owl could be her: so beware. #FairytaleTuesday
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La Lechuza is a white owl who is in fact a witch, appearing as a massive raptor who preys on souls at night from the Rio Grande Valley on down. Any white owl could be her: so beware. #FairytaleTuesday
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Most witches' familiars are remnants of the holy animals of pagan deities, demonized as people continued practicing pre-Christian folk magic and religion. Cats, for example, are holy to the Nordic "witch goddess" Freyja, and Egyptian Bast. #FairytaleTuesday
🖼: D. Zemba -
Most witches' familiars are remnants of the holy animals of pagan deities, demonized as people continued practicing pre-Christian folk magic and religion. Cats, for example, are holy to the Nordic "witch goddess" Freyja, and Egyptian Bast. #FairytaleTuesday
🖼: D. Zemba -
Most witches' familiars are remnants of the holy animals of pagan deities, demonized as people continued practicing pre-Christian folk magic and religion. Cats, for example, are holy to the Nordic "witch goddess" Freyja, and Egyptian Bast. #FairytaleTuesday
🖼: D. Zemba
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Alice Kyteler is the Witch of Kilkenny, accused in 1324 in Ireland's first known witch trial. She slew her four husbands by poison and was said to have laid with an incubus and renounced Christ. After she fled, a servant was killed in her place. #FairytaleTuesday
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Alice Kyteler is the Witch of Kilkenny, accused in 1324 in Ireland's first known witch trial. She slew her four husbands by poison and was said to have laid with an incubus and renounced Christ. After she fled, a servant was killed in her place. #FairytaleTuesday
🖼: P. Shaw
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Want good luck? Keep geese! According to the inhabitants of the Kenyan village of Kakamega, geese can sense a witch and thus will begin to honk, indicating families should be on their guard, thus preventing witches from souring the luck of the family. #FairytaleTuesday
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Want good luck? Keep geese! According to the inhabitants of the Kenyan village of Kakamega, geese can sense a witch and thus will begin to honk, indicating families should be on their guard, thus preventing witches from souring the luck of the family. #FairytaleTuesday
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Want good luck? Keep geese! According to the inhabitants of the Kenyan village of Kakamega, geese can sense a witch and thus will begin to honk, indicating families should be on their guard, thus preventing witches from souring the luck of the family. #FairytaleTuesday
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Awen is passion, inspiration, instinct that drives artists and muses in medieval Welsh thought. Sometimes depicted as coming from the cauldron of the white witch Ceridwen, awen is what drives people to create and craft. #FairytaleTuesday
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Awen is passion, inspiration, instinct that drives artists and muses in medieval Welsh thought. Sometimes depicted as coming from the cauldron of the white witch Ceridwen, awen is what drives people to create and craft. #FairytaleTuesday
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Awen is passion, inspiration, instinct that drives artists and muses in medieval Welsh thought. Sometimes depicted as coming from the cauldron of the white witch Ceridwen, awen is what drives people to create and craft. #FairytaleTuesday
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Prior to 1840, the mother of Hansel and Gretel is the villain who forces her husband to leave the children in the woods, but the Brothers Grimm sanitized the tale, for how could a biological mother do such a thing? It is also implied she may be the witch. #FairytaleTuesday
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Prior to 1840, the mother of Hansel and Gretel is the villain who forces her husband to leave the children in the woods, but the Brothers Grimm sanitized the tale, for how could a biological mother do such a thing? It is also implied she may be the witch. #FairytaleTuesday
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Prior to 1840, the mother of Hansel and Gretel is the villain who forces her husband to leave the children in the woods, but the Brothers Grimm sanitized the tale, for how could a biological mother do such a thing? It is also implied she may be the witch. #FairytaleTuesday
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In Finnish folklore, Louhi is the witch queen of the dark kingdom of Pohjola. When the demigod shaman Väinämöinen steals the Sampo (a wealth-making magic artifact) from her, Louhi turns into a monstrous eagle to pursue his ship, carrying her army on her back.
🎨Akseli Gallen-Kallela
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✨🔥✨Circe The Sorceress - by John Williams Waterhouse.
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In Welsh folklore, the Witches of Caer Lloyw are "maiden hags" skilled in both witchcraft and warfare. They teach combat skills to the Arthurian knight Peredur (Sir Percival). However, when he discovers they had tormented his relatives, Peredur takes revenge.
🎨Jérôme Lereculey
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In Welsh folklore, the Witches of Caer Lloyw are "maiden hags" skilled in both witchcraft and warfare. They teach combat skills to the Arthurian knight Peredur (Sir Percival). However, when he discovers they had tormented his relatives, Peredur takes revenge.
🎨Jérôme Lereculey
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In different parts of Eastern Europe, it was believed that those with red hair became vampires in death for centuries, in part because of the presence of "red" hair on dead bodies when checked months later, as part of the decay process. #FairytaleTuesday
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In different parts of Eastern Europe, it was believed that those with red hair became vampires in death for centuries, in part because of the presence of "red" hair on dead bodies when checked months later, as part of the decay process. #FairytaleTuesday
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In different parts of Eastern Europe, it was believed that those with red hair became vampires in death for centuries, in part because of the presence of "red" hair on dead bodies when checked months later, as part of the decay process. #FairytaleTuesday
👩🦰: Velveteena Leigh
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The Livonian Werewolf is a case where a man claimed to be a werewolf, but one who served God: he and his fellow werewolves, called the Hounds of God, rode into Hell three nights a year to fight Satan and his witches to steal back stolen grain. #FairytaleTuesday
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The Livonian Werewolf is a case where a man claimed to be a werewolf, but one who served God: he and his fellow werewolves, called the Hounds of God, rode into Hell three nights a year to fight Satan and his witches to steal back stolen grain. #FairytaleTuesday
🖼️: A. Francisco -
The Livonian Werewolf is a case where a man claimed to be a werewolf, but one who served God: he and his fellow werewolves, called the Hounds of God, rode into Hell three nights a year to fight Satan and his witches to steal back stolen grain. #FairytaleTuesday
🖼️: A. Francisco
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Folklore read live!
If a German witch offers you a tasty morsel,
I promise it's neither tasty nor a morsel!Find out what it is in tonight's tales LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/VHc_WkUcLKg
#FairyTaleTuesday #WritingCommunity #storyteller #FairyTale #AmReading #reading #indieWriter #fairy #folklore #folk #tales #stories #GrimmBrothers #dnd #dnd5e #pathfinder #pf2e #ttrpg #fantasy #lotr #german #folklore #witches #witchcraft #witch #hag #halloween
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I did #WyrdWednesday today instead of #FairytaleTuesday and just realized if mid conversation IRL. Mea culpa.
I will be doing posts for Tuesday tomorrow. My Wednesday stuff is out there already. Y'all I'm fucking tired. -
I did #WyrdWednesday today instead of #FairytaleTuesday and just realized if mid conversation IRL. Mea culpa.
I will be doing posts for Tuesday tomorrow. My Wednesday stuff is out there already. Y'all I'm fucking tired. -
The Cumbrian village of Dent once had its own vampire. After dying at the suspiciously advanced age of 94, a local man was spotted around the village and seen feasting on sheep's blood. One farmer shot a black hare and followed it back to the man's old house. Peering through the window, he saw the man bandaging a gunshot wound. The villagers dug the body up and found the man looked pink and healthy and that his hair and nails had grown. He was reburied beneath a slab-like tombstone, through which a metal pole was thrust into his heart. A stump of this pole can still be seen in the tombstone today. Some claim the tombstone is a reused gate post and the 'pole' is the remains of a hinge and that the stone itself gave rise to the vampire legend. Others link the legend to a bitter inheritance dispute. #FairytaleTuesday #folklore #gothic #horror #Halloween #mythology #31DaysofHalloween #history #vampire #vampires #weird #paranormal #Cumbria
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Folklore read live!
Why does a Russian witch remove her own head?
Find out in tonight's tales LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/4Z25xqDywvc
#FairyTaleTuesday #WritingCommunity #storyteller #FairyTale #AmReading #reading #indieWriter #fairy #folklore #folk #tales #stories #GrimmBrothers #dnd #dnd5e #pathfinder #pf2e #ttrpg #fantasy #lotr #russian #russia #folklore #legend #halloween #witch #witches
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The tomb of the journalist Victor Noir in Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Paris. Noir was shot dead by Prince Pierre Bonaparte during a dispute between imperial and republican newspapers and over 100,000 outraged republicans attended his funeral. His tomb was topped by a life-sized effigy depicting the slain journalist, but this statue has a strange legend attached. It's said that if a woman kisses Victor's lips, rubs the noticeable bulge in his 'trouser area' and places flowers in his hat, she'll conceive a child. The statue's mouth and crotch have become worn due to people testing this superstition. #Paris #gothic #graveyard #history #folklore #Halloween #31DaysofHalloween #weird #FairytaleTuesday #death
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✨🍂✨It's said that if you catch a falling autumn leaf before it touches the ground, you will be granted a wish.
#MythologyMonday #FairyTaleTuesday #WyrdWednesday #FolkloreThursday #FolkWitchFriday #FolkloreSunday