#FolkloreSunday for a #Celtic #ValentinesDay: `Bodb Dearg had a daughter, Scathniamh, the Flower of Brightness, that gave her love to Caoilte in the time of the Fianna; and they were forced to part from one another, and they never met again till the time Caoilte was, old and withered, and one of the last that was left of the Fianna. And she came to him out of the cave of Cruachan, and asked him for the bride-price he had promised her, and that she was never able to come and ask for till then. And Caoilte went to a cairn that was near and that was full up of gold, that was wages earned by Conan Maol and hidden there, and he gave the gold to Bodb Dearg's daughter. And the people that were there wondered to see the girl so young and comely, and Caoilte so grey and bent and withered. "There is no wonder in that," said Caoilte, "for I am of the sons of Miled that wither and fade away, but she is of the Tuatha de Danaan that never change and that never die".`
Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook

#FolkloreSunday for a #Celtic #ValentinesDay: `Eri, daughter of Delbaith, had refused the love of all the young men of her own people, but gave a king of the Fomor, Elathan, son of Dalbaech, her love, and she cried when he left her. He had given her a ring from his hand, and bade her give it only to the man whose finger it would fit.
When her son Bres asked what his race was she brought out the ring, and he put it round his middle finger, and it fitted him well.`
Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook

Unlike most mother monsters with lion bodies and human heads, the ravenous manticore of medieval folklore is usually depicted as no more intelligent than a beast. It can't really talk, only copy human speech like a parrot, which the manticore does in high-pitched falsetto as it chases its prey.

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#FolkloreSunday for a #Celtic #ValentinesDay: `Birog by her enchantments put all the women in the tower into a deep sleep, and Cian went to speak with Ethlinn. And when she saw him she said that was the face she had seen in her dreams. So she gave him her love; but after a while he was brought away again on a blast of wind.`
Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook

#FolkloreSunday for a #Celtic #ValentinesDay: `Aoibhell, a woman of the Sidhe, made her dwelling-place in Craig Liath, and at the time of the battle of Cluantarbh she set her love on a young man of Munster, Dubhlaing ua Artigan, that had been sent away in disgrace by the King of Ireland. …`
Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook
Here’s her tragic story: https://hear-me.social/@NeuKelte/114388338847486183

#FolkloreSunday for a #Celtic #ValentinesDay: `Aine, that some said was a daughter of Manannan, but some said was the Morrigu herself, often gave her love to men, and they called her the Leanan Sidhe, the Sweet-heart of the Sidhe.`
Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook

💘🐈‍⬛💘"Whenever the Cat of the house is black, the lasses of lovers will have no lack." #Caturday #ValentinesDay #FolkloreSunday

Schöne Entwicklung des indischen Dark Folk-Projekts Vishal Naidu: #darkfolk #vishalnaidu #folk #Folklore #FolkloreSunday : http://www.popmonitor.de/vishal-naidu-aeons-in-stillness/

In Welsh folklore, the Cwn Annwn ("Hounds of the Otherworld") are white fairy dogs with red ears that race across the sky as the Wild Hunt. Their baying can be mistaken for the honking of geese, though it actually gets quieter the closer the Cwn Annwn get to their prey.
🎨 Roger Garland

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In Scottish folklore, the baobhan sith is a vampiric fairy that appears as a beautiful woman with deer hooves for feet. Baobhan sith entice lonely travelers and shepherds to dance with them, dancing so hard that the mortals sweat blood and eventually drop dead from exhaustion.
🎨 Brian Froud

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#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: `#Fairies were not evil. However, they were amoral, not tied to the moral and ethical demands of humanity. They were merely playful troublemakers rather than devilish opponents. They commonly tried to lead travelers astray. This was a minor inconvenience and could be quite frightening, but even without protection, the #fairy eventually grew bored with the trick and released the ensnared human.
More seriously, the fairies attempted to lure useful or attractive people into the #Otherworld, to do their bidding until released.`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`

#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: `If contacted in their lovely woodland grottoes with running streams (in French, grotte aux fées, or in Breton, feunteun ar corrigan), #korrigans could sometimes tell the future. Seeking them out could bring danger, however, for korrigans like other #fairies were immoral and might as readily steal a person or child as tell a fortune.`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`

Most witches' familiars are remnants of the holy animals of pagan deities, now applied to witches who in some cases continued pre-Christian folk magic and religion. Cats, for example, are holy to the Nordic "witch goddess" Freyja, and Egyptian Bast. #FolkloreSunday 🖼: D. Zemba

Most witches' familiars are remnants of the holy animals of pagan deities, now applied to witches who in some cases continued pre-Christian folk magic and religion. Cats, for example, are holy to the Nordic "witch goddess" Freyja, and Egyptian Bast. #FolkloreSunday

🖼: D. Zemba

Can't get it up? Blame a witch! Around the world, witches have been blamed from everything to balms that prevent penises from rising to literally stealing the dicks right off men and putting them in trees. #FolkloreSunday

Can't get it up? Blame a witch! Around the world, witches have been blamed from everything to balms that prevent penises from rising to literally stealing the dicks right off men and putting them in trees. #FolkloreSunday

In India witches are typically told as having their feet on backwards. Yet this cannot be in the case in modern witch trials, which still occur with unfortunate regularity: in 2008, 750 women were lynched in Assam and West Bengal alone #FolkloreSunday 🖼️: N. Bandukwala

In India witches are typically told as having their feet on backwards. Yet this cannot be in the case in modern witch trials, which still occur with unfortunate regularity: in 2008, 750 women were lynched in Assam and West Bengal alone #FolkloreSunday

🖼️: N. Bandukwala

A number of similar-looking mushrooms and fungi are known by the name Witch's Butter, famous for their edibility and medicinal purposes that keep one alert and alive while a formal diagnosis can be made. Its appearance means a family has been targeted by a witch. #FolkloreSunday

A number of similar-looking mushrooms and fungi are known by the name Witch's Butter, famous for their edibility and medicinal purposes that keep one alert and alive while a formal diagnosis can be made. Its appearance means a family has been targeted by a witch. #FolkloreSunday