One of the most hideous sea monsters is the Scottish nuckelavee, a fairy that resembles a skinless horse fused with a skinless rider. Ironically, the nuckelavee hates fresh water. A river or lake is the safest place from this aquatic creature when it comes on land.
🎨 Scott Purdy

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A fairy doctor was a wise woman or cunning man in Ireland who was taught benign magic by fairies. They were called "fairy doctors" because they used their magic to protect people from bad fairies and sorcerers just like a regular doctor protects people from diseases.
🎨 E. Fitzpatrick

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🧚‍♀️#FolkloreThursday 🧚‍♂️#FairyFriday In Shetland's Skelwick, Maren spun flax fine as spider silk 🕸️ by the fire 🌧️, singing to ward off envious Trows 🧚‍♀️. But Grimni heard her tune and left gifts—silver, pearls, a whalebone comb. On the 7th night, he claimed her.
Maren was taken to a moss-lit hall where Trows danced. She used iron, tricked Grimni, and escaped as the hall crumbled. A week's passage in a night, her gifts dust, her wheel marked. She hung iron for protection.

Trow 🎨: Mark Bere Peterson

In Welsh folklore, when King Arthur attacked the first sister of the giant Cribwr, he said his name was "Hot Porridge." When the giantess screamed that she needed help with Hot Porridge, her brother called back from another room that she should just let it cool.
🎨 Jim Kavanagh

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In Welsh myths, when the people of northern Wales offended the fairies, the fairies unleashed an army of monsters. It included a huge toad with sharp claws, a serpent with 100 damned souls writhing under its skin, and a 100-headed monster so huge battles could be fought on its jaws.
🎨 Jason Kang

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Owain ap Urien was a 6th-century Brythonic Celtic king who became mythologized as one of King Arthur's champions. In French Arthurian legends, Owain is the son of Morgan le Fey. However, in Welsh legends, he is the son of Modron ("Mother," a fairy mother goddess).
🎨 Howard Pyle

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In Welsh myths, the giant British king Bran the Blessed was killed in Ireland, and his huge head was carried home. Back in Britain, the head was buried where the Tower of London now stands. As long as the head is there, Britain can't be invaded, but some say King Arthur dug it up.
🎨 Peter Diamond

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"By the craggy hillside,
Through the mosses bare,
They have planted thorn trees
For pleasure, here and there.
Is any man so daring
As dig them up in spite,
He shall find their sharpest thorns
In his bed at night."
- William Allingham, "The Fairies"
🎨 Cicely Mary Barker

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The Swiss alchemist Paracelsus claimed that each element has an elemental spirit. He dubbed the fire elemental a "salamander" or "volcanid," and said that it can swim through fire like a human swims through water. The salamander is related to the will-o'-the-wisp.

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I'm intrigued by the Greek mythology / fairy vibe of so much of the Givenchy haute couture from Alexander McQueen.
https://anniesfashionbreak.blogspot.com/2012/08/givenchy-by-alexander-mcqueen-haute.html

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In the Arthurian folktale "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," Sir Gawain witnesses the resurrection of the Green Knight. Appropriately, he faces the Green Knight on New Year's Day, the rebirth of the year, which is shortly after Christmas, the Biblical birth.
🎨 Oscar Senonez

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In Welsh folklore, the line between deity, demon, ghost, and fairy is vague. Arawn and Gwyn ap Nudd are at various times called fairy kings, lords of the dead, or lords of demons. Sometimes the Wild Hunt is led by them, though sometimes it is led by King Arthur's ghost or by Satan.
🎨 Henri Lievens

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In the original myths, Morgan the Fey is the eldest of nine fairy sisters who rule Avalon Isle. She is their greatest mathematician and physician, devoted to healing King Arthur (in this version, he's not her brother). Thanks to her skills, eventually Arthur may return.
🎨 James Archer

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A fairy doctor was a wise woman or cunning man in Ireland who was taught good magic by good fairies. They were called "fairy doctors" because they used their magic to heal people hurt by bad fairies or sorcery like a regular doctor heals those hurt by diseases.
🎨 E. Fitzpatrick

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In Welsh legends, pigs originally came from the Otherworld, a gift of the fairy king Arawn. That's why they can be turned into so many delicious foods (bacon, sausages, pork chops, etc.). Swineherds are often wizards in Welsh legends, as they guard these fairy beasts.
🎨 Sebald Beham

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"All hail, thou mighty Queen of Heaven!
For thy peer on Earth I never did see."

"Oh no, oh no, Thomas," she said,
"That name does not belong to me.
I am but the queen of fair Elfland,
That am hither come to visit thee."

- "Thomas the Rhymer" (Scottish ballad)
🎨 Charles Vess

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"The Queen of Fairies she caught me,
In yon green hill to dwell.
And pleasant is the fairy land,
But, an eerie tale to tell,
Aye, at the end of seven years,
We pay a tithe to Hell.
I am so fair and full of flesh,
I'm feared it be mysel'."
- "Tam Lin" (Scottish ballad)
🎨 Charles Vess

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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 the court's red colors derived from hellfire and the blue from death's chill. The court then vanished.

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Many of Britain's pre-Christian cultures placed their dead inside cairns or megalithic tombs. The later Christians feared these tombs, often imagining them as the enchanted halls of fairies or the treasure-filled lairs of dragons, many of which were inspired by the imagery of pagan gods.

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Some Arthurian flash fiction about one of my favourite King Arthur characters.
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