🌿🪦🌿"Folklore claimed that churchyard yews would stretch a root to the mouth of each corpse, making a hidden green-man of every buried body. Their essence would be drawn in with the sap. The tree would remember them." 📖Deeper Older Darker #FairyTaleTuesday #thicktrunktuesday #FairyTaleFlash

#FairyTaleTuesday ⛰️ #CapeBretonNS
Irish settlers said #Fairies danced on Cape Breton’s barren peaks, hiding gold in rocky hills, while #Banshees wailed on dry ridges, warning of doom.
🧚‍♀️ #FairyTaleFlash ✨

#FairyTaleTuesday ⛰️
Cherokee medicine people called rain from Smoky Mountain peaks with song and sacred tobacco. In Appalachia, “Granny witches” heal with plant wisdom—brewing catnip tea for headaches and restful sleep.

#FairyTaleFlash #SmokyMountains #AppalachianFolkMagic #GrannyMagic #CatnipTea

Flash fiction by me:

"King Arthur tried to focus on what his advisors were telling him - something related to taxes or the price of grain. All the high king could think of was how much he wished he could just throw his crown away, pull on his armor, and ride off on adventures with his brother."

🎨 N. C. Wyeth

#FairyTaleFlash #Mythology #Folklore #Fiction #FlashFiction #KingArthur #Arthuriana

The shadows crowded around the campfire as the young campers told their ghost stories and urban legends. The shadows were anxious to hear the words that would shape their forms. They wouldn't know what sort of monsters they could become until the campers told them.
🎨 Alastair Humphreys.

#FairyTaleFlash #BookChatWeekly #Literature #Fiction #FlashFiction #Horror

My father lay with my mother by a river. Less than a year later, she gave to him me and my twin brother. Then she left. They say she was Modron, a mother goddess our people worshipped long ago. If she was a mother goddess, why was she not a mother to me?

#FairyTaleFlash #BookChatWeekly #Mythology #WelshMythology #CelticMythology #Folklore #WelshFolklore #CelticFolklore #Wales #Celtic #KingArthur #Arthurian #Arthuriana #Literature #Fiction #FlashFiction

🦄✨ #FairyTaleTuesday✨🦄
Discover the enchanting Asian #unicorns like the #Qilin from China 🇨🇳 and the Kirin from Japan 🇯🇵.
Did you know #narwhals 🐋 might have inspired the unicorn legend? Their tusks were once sold as unicorn horns!
📖💫 #FairytaleFlash 🦄✨

Photo of Chinese Qilin Statue in Summer Palace, Public Domain.

🦄#Fairytaletuesday 🦄
Young woman with a #Unicorn
by Raphael circa, 1505-1506 Galleria, Borghese, Rome, Italy.
🦄#FairytaleFlash ✨

#FairyTaleTuesday #FairyTaleFlash: Eithne Massey calls #Manannán a trickster, “changing shape as often as water – sometimes an old man in a grey cloak, sometimes a great warrior riding the waves like horses.” #Celtic
Source: Eithne Massey `Legendary Ireland`

#FairyTaleTuesday #FairyTaleFlash: The bogan (buckawn, bòcan, bauchan) is a #Scottish (occasionally #Irish) folkloric figure. `This shape-shifting night sprite was a trickster, occasionally helpful but usually malicious.` The bogan even immigrated to America with those he served – or haunted.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
https://todon.eu/@NeuKelte/110147332844903136

#FairyTaleTuesday #FairyTaleFlash: `Often found in #Cornwall, the #boggart was a trickster version of the brownie, who caused destruction, tossing things about the house at whim; any brownie could become a boggart if mistreated by his family.`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
https://x.com/AliceNebularis/status/1891133816963543500?t=KVmMBxdHtP-FTWHzYQSB5A&s=19

#FairyTaleTuesday #FairyTaleFlash: `One text refers to Gwion as a thief who stole magical swine from the #Otherworld of Annwn and brought them to the surface world. This magician, poet, and trickster is believed to be a diminished version of an earlier #Welsh god, one whose domain included both the stars, where he lived in the Milky Way (Caer Gwydion), and the Otherworld of Annwn.`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
https://x.com/bthomasa/status/1519574709452435456?t=EVYyTC6FAYoK7xZ5On1ERA&s=09

#FairyTaleTuesday #FairyTaleFlash: In the #Scottish Highlands the #bodach could appear either as relatively harmless trickster or, as the Bodach Glas or Dark Gray Man, as a male banshee who was seen just before a death.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
https://twitter.com/SianEsther/status/964092437626019840

#FairyTaleTuesday #FairyTaleFlash: `#Blathnait was blindly in love with #CúChullain, so she contrived for the old magician to send his men out quarrying for stone to improve the defensibility of the fort on top of the mountain at #Caherconree, in Co Kerry, against the young warriors arrival.
Whilst they were away, and her husband Cú Roí lay sleeping, she hid his weapons, and poured milk into the river to send a signal to the waiting CúChullain at the bottom of the mountain that all had gone to plan. The warrior then stormed the fort and claimed his love.` #Celtic
https://x.com/FinnClodagh/status/1555119181456150529
Source: https://substack.com/@aliisaac

#FairyTaleTuesday #FairyTaleFlash: This is part of the poem Líadian composed about the poet Cuirithrir:
I am Líadain, I loved Cuirithir. It is as true as they tell it. It was a short time that I was in the company of Cuirithir. Towards him, my companionship was good. The music of the wood used to sing around me when I was with Cuirithir with the sound of the blood-red ocean. I would have thought that nothing of whatever things I might do would bring Cuirithir against me. One shouldn’t hide it: he was my heart’s desire, even if I loved everyone besides him. A roar of fire has broke my heart. It is known that it will not live without him.“ #Celtic
Source: Ali Isaac | Substack

#FairyTaleTuesday #FairyTaleFlash: `Líadain of Corco Duibne was a lady poet who was touring the province of Connacht, where she met Cuirithir mac Doborchu, a local poet. Well, it was love at first sight, and being lusty Irish, they spent the night together.
Cuirithir wanted more than a one night stand; “Why do we not make a union, o Líadain? Brilliant would be our son whom you would beget,” he entreated her, no doubt alluding to their combined skills as poets.
Líadain had fallen even more deeply in love, but something held her back… her love for God.` #Celtic
Source: Ali Isaac | Substack

#FairyTaleTuesday
Cupid, was given by the Romans to the cherub angels named Putti crafted by artists during the Renaissance. Folks began sending Valentine cards to each other in the 17th century where the infant Cupid image stuck #Fairytaleflash #cupid

#FairytaleTuesday 🧚💝#ValentinesDay
Chocolates became a beloved Valentine's gift over time, symbolizing love and affection. In 1868, #Cadbury created #Fancyboxes decorated boxes of #Chocolates shaped like hearts! 💘
✨ Folklore suggests that giving chocolate can strengthen love, as it contains phenylethylamine, the 'love chemical.' Sharing sweets on this special day has roots in ancient customs, celebrating romance since the Middle Ages! #Fairytaleflash 💘

#FairyTaleTuesday #FairyTaleFlash: `Fothad Canainne was true to his love vows. After he carried off the wife of Ailill of Munster with her consent, he was pursued by the enraged husband and each man died at the other's hand. But as he had promised to return to his lover after battle, Fothad came back to meet her regularly, even after death, giving rise to the Fenian poem translated by Kuno Meyer as ‘The Tryst After Death’.` #Celtic
Source: Fothad - Oxford Reference

#FairyTaleTuesday #FairyTaleFlash: `It was in the day of #Fionn Mac Cumhaill when he was an old man, yet still hale and hearty, that one of his warriors, whose name was Diarmaid son of Donn and grandson of Duibne, had carried off his young bride-to-be, Gráinne daughter of Cormac! The two had fallen in love and Gráinne, for all of Fionn's fame, wanted nothing to do with him. The two decided to elope and a famous chase ensued.` #Celtic
Source: https://emeraldisle.ie/treachery-at-ben-edair