That concludes our theme of disguises. Thank you for posting your truly varied use of disguises in myth! This is your host @AimeeMaroux signing off. Join us next #MythologyMonday and share your favourite mythology art & artists for #InternationalArtistDay 🎨
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This week's #MythologyMonday theme is disguises. The Greek gods often disguise themselves as humans or animals to have sex with mortals, most famously Zeus: he takes the disguise of a bull, a swan, a satyr, an eagle, and even an ant to get close to the mortals he desires. His son Apollon takes the guise of an old woman to have sex with Chione. Dionysos takes the shape of a grape to lie with Erigone. Or maybe it was his fabulous grape costume?
🎨 #Fresco, National Archaeological Museum of Naples
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Trick or treating may have partly evolved from 'souling', a custom in which poor people would go around the neighbouring houses on holy days asking for food and drink. Many soulers were masked - a way to, literally, save face when requesting charity. At Christmas and Halloween, this custom first seems to have been centred on asking for special biscuits called soul cakes, but it eventually came to encompass any food or drink. By saying prayers in exchange for soul cakes, it was believed you could help souls in Purgatory. #MythologyMonday #history #folklore #Halloween #weird #mythology #31DaysofHalloween #gothic
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Don't disguise yourself before people with a twitchy trigger finger!
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In Norse mythology, one of the gods disguises himself as the traveler "Rígr" in order to walk among humans and teach them how to properly fulfill the roles of the various social classes of Nordic society. There is some debate about whether the god in question is Heimdallr or Odin.
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Dwarves can take on a multitude of guises when interacting with humans.
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Pwyll turns up at the wedding of the woman he loves [Rhiannon] disguised as a beggar asking for food. He tricks the groom Gwawl into getting into the food bag - which is actually a magical "holding bag", only allowing him out if he returns Rhiannon to Pwyll ...
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Pwyll turns up at the wedding of the woman he loves [Rhiannon] disguised as a beggar asking for food. He tricks the groom Gwawl into getting into the food bag - which is actually a magical "holding bag", only allowing him out if he returns Rhiannon to Pwyll ...
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Foreman Calvör used a cunning disguise for a classic Scooby-Doo plot in order to enrich himself.
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The Norwegian Forest Cat is said to be a fairy or a goblin in DISGUISE.Those large, luminous eyes aren’t just beautiful. They’re windows. Stare into them long enough and you may glimpse the Otherworld watching back through the mask of a cat.
A living disguise that lets the fae move among us, unnoticed… until the moment you look too closely. 🌙
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On Samhain (and the wild Mischief Night that preceded it), Irish folk slipped into animal costumes and masks—especially the wolf.Masked and disguised, they roamed from village to village causing merry chaos… then simply blamed the faeries when morning came.
The mask didn’t just hide the face. It became a doorway between the human world and the Otherworld—where mischief could be pinned on spirits no one dared to challenge. 🌙✨
#Samhain📸 Derry Halloween, Derry~Londonderry
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"Disguised as horrible, devilish figures, they roamed the valley and made use of the fear and dread which the name of the valley instilled in wanderers and the people living nearby."
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"Usually, he disguised himself in the shape of a spice trader or an apothecary journeyman. His eyes were as large as the lenses of spectacles, the face had a coarse coating like the skin of a donkey, and his feet looked like the feet of cows at the front, but they had claws at the back. "
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Attractive as the woman is, hold fast to your wits: this Caribbean woman is more than just good looks and flaming intellect, but a cursed woman who brings souls to their doom: she is La Diablesse, disguised as a beautiful woman but with a goat's leg. #MythologyMonday
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Attractive as the woman is, hold fast to your wits: this Caribbean woman is more than just good looks and flaming intellect, but a cursed woman who brings souls to their doom: she is La Diablesse, disguised as a beautiful woman but with a goat's leg. #MythologyMonday
🖼️A Silva
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The original Sleeping Beauty of Germanic folklore was Brunnhilde, the shield-maiden queen whom Sigurd finds sleeping across a wall of flame; she had vowed she would marry that man. But Sigurd was disguised as his friend Gunnar: tragedy is the result. #MythologyMonday
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The original Sleeping Beauty of Germanic folklore was Brunnhilde, the shield-maiden queen whom Sigurd finds sleeping across a wall of flame; she had vowed she would marry that man. But Sigurd was disguised as his friend Gunnar: tragedy is the result. #MythologyMonday
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The original Sleeping Beauty of Germanic folklore was Brunnhilde, the shield-maiden queen whom Sigurd finds sleeping across a wall of flame; she had vowed she would marry that man. But Sigurd was disguised as his friend Gunnar: tragedy is the result. #MythologyMonday
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Merlin's most famous magic was disguising King Uther Pendragon (King Arthur's father) as his vassal Gorlois so that Uther could sleep with Gorlois' wife Igraine. Some versions try to justify this horrible act by saying it was necessary in order to birth Arthur.
🎨Howard Pyle
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Greetings, Myth Lovers on BlueSky! Join us for the theme: DISGUISES. Write out your story & use the hashtag #MythologyMonday for boosts. Follow @ap.brid.gy so we can see your posts.
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Hello, Myth Lovers! This week's theme is DISGUISES! Which myths have a character in disguise? Are they discovered? Tell us your myth and use the hashtag #MythologyMonday for boosts. See you soon!
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⛈️🐾⛈️The legendary hound 'Black Shuck' was said to have attacked the churchgoers at Bungay in Suffolk, during a violent storm that struck the village in 1577.
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⛈️🐾⛈️The legendary hound 'Black Shuck' was said to have attacked the churchgoers at Bungay in Suffolk, during a violent storm that struck the village in 1577.
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1/4 "The Faeries" by #Irish poet William Allingham
They stole little Bridget
For seven years long;
When she came down again
Her friends were all gone. www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/3374... #MythologyMonday #folklore #fairytale #fairies #art #poetry #literature
The Fairies Banquet - John Ans... -
2/4 They took her lightly back,
Between the night and morrow,
They thought that she was fast asleep,
But she was dead with sorrow. www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/3464... #MythologyMonday #art #poetry #wallart #illustration #fairies #folklore #giftidea
Elfin Dance - Richard Doyle by... -
4/4 Up the airy mountain,
Down the rushy glen,
We daren’t go a-hunting
For fear of little men;
Wee folk, good folk,
Trooping all together;
Green jacket, red cap,
And white owl’s feather!" www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/3570... #MythologyMonday #art #poem #fairytale #literature #folklore
Dancing Fairies - Georges Pica... -
3/4 They have kept her ever since
eep within the lake,
On a bed of flag-leaves,
Watching till she wake. redbubble.com/shop/ap/3665... #MythologyMonday #art #poem #wallart #homedecor #interiordesign #mythology #folklore #fairytale #literature
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If you wash your eyes with elder tree sap, it gives you the ability to see fairies. Similarly, Scottish #folklore says if you stand beneath an elder at Samhain you'll see the Wild Host.
🎨John Anster Fitzgerald redbubble.com/shop/ap/3337... #MythologyMonday #fairytale #art #mythology
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1/3 If you come across a ring of mushrooms, you've found a fairy ring. This is where the fairies come to dance at night.
🎨Richard Doyle redbubble.com/shop/ap/3473... #MythologyMonday #mythology #art #folklore #magical #illustration #vintage #fairytale #HalloweenCountdown
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2/3 The mushrooms are stools for the fairies to rest between dances. Humans who join the dance lose time or memory.
🎨George Cruikshank redbubble.com/shop/ap/3527... #art #fairytales #homedecor #MythologyMonday #mythology #fineart #folklore #Halloween #Spooktober
A Fantasy, The Fairy Ring - Ge... -
Taking a spirit as your lover is usually unwise - particularly if you are already married.
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The Wild Huntsman hunts the sprits of the forest for his own unfathomable reasons.
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The poet and 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 and then disappeared." This experience may have inspired the artwork below: 'Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing'. #MythologyMonday #folklore #gothic #poets #weird #Romanticism #art #arthistory #poetry #poems #mythology
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The Tylwyth Teg of Welsh folklore can control the weather, preferring damp, misty weather for their activities. The more solitary Ellyllon live in remote woodland groves, wear gloves made of foxglove bells & feast on poisonous fungi known as "fairy butter" ...
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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