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ᕼEᗩᗪᒪEᔕᔕ
A Dullahan Anthology
Featuring Miranda May’s Fated Caress
https://books2read.com/dullahanantho

💀𝕕𝕪𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕡𝕚𝕒𝕟 𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕠𝕣𝕞𝕒𝕝 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕝𝕕
💀𝕓𝕒𝕤𝕖𝕕 𝕠𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕘𝕖𝕣𝕞𝕒𝕟 𝕗𝕠𝕝𝕜𝕝𝕠𝕣𝕖 𝕠𝕗 𝕕𝕖𝕣 𝕜𝕠𝕡𝕗𝕝𝕠𝕤𝕖 𝕣𝕖𝕚𝕥𝕖𝕣
💀𝕞𝕔
💀𝕙𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕝𝕖𝕤𝕤 𝕙𝕠𝕣𝕤𝕖𝕞𝕖𝕟
💀𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕗𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕤
💀𝕗𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕕 𝕞𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕤
💀𝕒 𝕡𝕤𝕪𝕔𝕙𝕠𝕡𝕒𝕥𝕙 𝕖𝕩

As the fates, my sisters and I should have seen the end of the world coming—only we didn't.

Now, supernatural creatures rule the world and have enslaved humans. If only our powers weren't failing, maybe we could've prevented it.

Unable to change the past, we created Iero as a safe place for supernaturals and humans alike. A sanctuary in the horror story we call a world.

But now my past threatens to shatter our peaceful safe haven, and help arrives in an unexpected form. The men of Headless Horsemen MC are nothing like the MCs who are ravaging across the continent, and all they want to do is help us protect our home.

But that might not be the only thing I want from them.

Can their support be what we need to stop the evil coming for us and save the one spot of light in a world ruled by darkness?

Fated Caress can be found in the Headless anthology releasing October 7, 2025. The story ends on a HFN with the full novella releasing in March 2026. This is an MMMF poly romance and is intended for readers 18+ due to language and content.

#mirandamay #anthology #mcromance #germanfolklore #headlesshorseman #thefates #fatedmates #pnr #dystopian

Have you ever seen a face in the moonlight?

In German folklore, that face isn’t just imagination — it’s a warning.

Meet Der Mann im Mond — a man cursed for working on the Sabbath, doomed to carry his burden across the night sky for all eternity.
A bundle of sticks.
A shadowed face.

Read the full legend + journal prompts in the latest blog https://tasarlaromaney.wordpress.com/2025/07/11/the-man-in-the-moon-german-folklore-and-the-lunar-watcher-above/

#ManInTheMoon #GermanFolklore #MoonLore #MythAndMagic #FullMoonVibes #FolkloreFriday #MoonMagic #ShadowWork #SpiritualFolklore

🔮 On this #FolkyFriday we spotlight
#Veleda a seeress of the Bructeri, who rose to prominence during the Batavian rebellion (AD 69–70). Her foresight into the rebels' initial triumphs against the Roman legions, led by Gaius Julius Civilis, marked her as a powerful figure in Germanic folklore. 🏛️✨
#Seers #Germanfolklore

The seeress Veleda as painted by Jules Eugène Lenepveu, 1883

In the German fairy tale "The Six Servants," a young man is assisted by six servants with strange superpowers. One servant is able to drink up the whole Red Sea, and later eat 300 fat oxen (hair, bones, and all) in a single sitting, along with 300 casks of wine.
🎨 Věnceslava Černého

#FairyTaleTuesday #31DaysofHaunting #BookChatWeekly #Mythology #Folklore #FairyTale #GermanMythology #GermanFolklore #GermanFairyTale #Germany #Grimm #BrothersGrimm #SuperPower

The servants guide the young man to a castle where he will make his fortune. Illustration by Věnceslava Černého.

According to German legend, a cruel bishop became so irritated by the begging of the poor that he had them locked in a barn and burned alive. As punishment for this, God made thousands of mice descend on the bishop’s tower and ultimately consume the bishop. #WyrdWednesday

#Folklore #Folktale #TheMouseTower #Mice #GermanFolklore

Illustration of Bishop Hatto covered with mice inspired by the German legend of The Mouse Tower

In his confession to the many gruesome murders committed by "The Werewolf of Bedburg," Peter Stumpp claimed that he was able transform into the wolf by putting on a magic belt given to him by the Devil. #FolkloreSunday

📷: Chris Ensminger

#Folklore #Werewolf #Devil #Germany #GermanFolklore #31DaysOfHaunting

How the King of the Elves became King of the Alders

Lovely chaotic origin for a piece of Germanic folklore. From Marina Warner's brilliant "No Go the Bogeyman".

#mythology #folklore #MarinaWarner #books #FairyTales #translation #GermanFolklore #reading

'The Erlking' was written when Goethe was still a young poet, in the period when the scholarly circle of Clemens Brentano and Bettina von Arnim was forming, the milieu that would produce Achim von Arnim and Brentano's Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Boy's Magic Horn, 1806), the founding anthology of German songs, and would also nurture the young Grimm Brothers' enthusiasm for fairy tales. Interestingly, it was a mistranslation of a Danish legend that inspired the figure of the Erlking. Johann Gottfried Herder misunderstood the Danish for 'king of the elves', but his was one of those momentous, wondrous, mythopoeic errors that enriches culture, for a 'King of the Alders' belonged by nature to the damp, dark, spooky forests of Germany and to its native folklore. A slip of the ear or of the pen shifted the whole uncanny underworld of the fairies into the deep native woodland above ground, where it threatened more closely, more thrillingly.

Large paperback book on a wooden surface. The full title is 'No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock'. Additional text, in black, blue, and brown type: 'Winner of the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award'. 'From the author of "From the Beast to the Blonde"'. And a blurb: 'It is impossible not to be dazzled by the brilliance of Marina Warner ... No Go the Bogeyman is delightful, enchanting, discursive, funny, erudite' – Guardian. In the bottom right is a colour illustration of The Manticora from F.E. Hulme's book Myth-land. It's a legendary creature with the head of a man, the body of a lion, and the tail of a dragon or scorpion that's like a pom-pom of red spikes. The head is grinning uncannily and has red hair, beard, and mane. The body is quite scrawny.

The dwarfs of German folklore were said to wear magical caps that made them invisible. According to one story, a group of dwarfs living outside Göttingen would take advantage of this ability to steal corn from the field of a local farmer. #FolkyFriday

📷: Sarah Mae

#Folklore #Folktale #Dwarf #Dwarfs #Corn #Germany #GermanFolklore

Photo of a lawn gnome in a red cap peeking through the grass

In the Grimms' Fairy Tale 'The Nixie of the Mill-Pond,' a poor miller promises to give whatever had "just been born in [his] house" to a water spirit in return for wealth. Unfortunately, the newborn in his house was not a dog or cat as he assumed but his own son. #WyrdWednesday

🎨: H. J. Ford

#Folklore #FairyTale #GrimmsFairyTale #Nixie #TheNixieOfTheMillPond #GermanFolklore

Black and white illustration by Henry Justice Ford depicting the miller encountering the nixie rising up from the mill-pool

The Schlüsselblume (or "key-flower") is a magical plant in German folklore. According to one legend, a young man was led by the goddess Bertha to a great treasure hidden behind a secret door that could only be opened by knocking on it with Bertha's key-flowers. #WyrdWednesday

📷: Brett Jordan

#Folklore #Folktale #Legend #Schlüsselblume #Flowers #Primrose #Treasure #Bertha #Germany #GermanFolklore

Photo of small white flowers with yellow centers growing in a natural setting

The Lorelei is a massive rock formation located on a particularly treacherous stretch of Germany's Rhine River, which was made even more dangerous by a siren, who was also known as Lorelei, that sat atop the cliff and distracted passing sailors with her bewitching singing. #LegendaryWednesday

#Folklore #Lorelei #DieLorelei #Siren #RhineRiver #Germany #GermanFolklore #GermanLiterature

Photo of the Rhine River with the Lorelei rock formation towering over the right side of the picture from 1901

According to legend, the devil offered to help fund Aachen Cathedral's construction in exchange for the soul of the first to enter the building. Strapped for cash, the city agreed to the deal but made sure that a wolf was the first to pass through the cathedral's doors its upon completion. #FolkyFriday

📷: Carolina Nichitin

#Folklore #Folktale #Devil #Satan #AachenCathedral #Germany #GermanFolklore

Photo of Germany's Aachen Cathedral as seen from the outside across a city square

In the Grimms' Fairy Tale 'Sweet Porridge,' a poor girl was gifted a magic pot that could cook an unlimited amount of porridge. However, only the girl knew the magic words to make it stop, so when the her mother attempted to use the pot without her daughter's help, she ended up flooding their street with porridge. #FolkloreSunday

📷 : Jerome Ramos

#Folklore #FairyTale #GrimmsFairyTale #SweetPorridge #TheBrothersGrimm #GermanFolklore

Photo of a black cooking pot with a blurred-out background

The dwarfs of German folklore were said to wear magical caps that could make them invisible. According to one story, certain dwarfs living in Jüne near Göttingen took advantage of this ability to steal corn from the field of a local farmer. #FolkloreSunday

📷 : Sarah Mae

#Folklore #Dwarfs #FairyTale #GermanFolklore #Germany

A German folktale recorded in Fletcher S. Bassett's 1892 book 'Sea Phantoms' tells how Merreimne, the Queen of the Sea, became trapped in the nets of a fishing boat. Upon realizing what they'd done, the terrified fishermen quickly threw her back into the water. #FolkloreSunday

#Folklore #Folktale #GermanFolklore #Merreimne #Mermaid #QueenOfTheSea #Fishermen #SeaPhantoms

Photo of a fishing boat sailing across the water surrounded by seagulls with mountains and a sunset in the background

I did this watercolor painting for Easter 2023. It depicts the Easter riding procession, a tradition in parts of Germany, where a band horsemen travel from village to village spreading the message of the Resurrection of Jesus. I took some liberties in the imagery. ;)

Btw I have this picture available as postcard and A5 print at my Ko-fi store.

#redpanda #watercolor #furryart #traditionalart #folkloreart #germanfolklore #cutefurry #cuteart #anthroart #springart #religiousart #easter2023

A watercolor painting of a cartoony anthro panda riding on a lamb. The red panda wears a black top hat, a green floral brooch on their chest and is holing a banner. The lamb is decorated with a flower crown and a simple blue cloth for a saddle. The are seen riding through the countryside with houses, hills and trees scattered about in the background.

According to Thomas Keightley’s ‘The Fairy Mythology,’ the Brown Dwarfs from the German Isle of Rügen are particularly offended by lazy servants and maids. One of the ways these dwarfs punish those they deem to be inadequate workers is to give them terrible nightmares. #WyrdWednesday

📷: Jen Theodore

#Folklore #Dwarfs #BrownDwarfs #IsleOfRugen #Germany #GermanFolklore #Dream #Nightmare

Photo of a garden gnome in brown clothing

For those worried about not interacting outside of your own area, the federated timeline on #mastodon is far more fascinating. From #Germanfolklore to #seaurchins to #murdermysteries from the 1950s all within 10 minutes of activity.
No regrets on my migration. #BirdtoHerd!
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