With jewels, elfin Urim, on the hilt,
Bewildering heart and eye--the blade so bright
That men are blinded by it...'
-Lord Tennyson
🎨John Duncan
#WyrdWednesday
With jewels, elfin Urim, on the hilt,
Bewildering heart and eye--the blade so bright
That men are blinded by it...'
-Lord Tennyson
🎨John Duncan
#WyrdWednesday
🎨woodland fairy ring; Cruikshank's twilight fairy ring 1855
🎨woodland fairy ring; Cruikshank's twilight fairy ring 1855
#FolkloreThursday #folklore #troll #Gryla #iceland #trollseason
#FolkloreThursday #folklore #troll #Gryla #iceland #trollseason
#FolkloreThursday
#FolkloreThursday
Did Celtic Druids burn criminals in wicker effigies for luck? Julius Caesar’s tales suggest so, but scholars warn it might be propaganda to demonize foes. 😈
Read more by Tastes of History, www.tastesofhistory.co.uk/post/dispell...
Did Celtic Druids burn criminals in wicker effigies for luck? Julius Caesar’s tales suggest so, but scholars warn it might be propaganda to demonize foes. 😈
Read more by Tastes of History, www.tastesofhistory.co.uk/post/dispell...
#MythologyMonday
#MythologyMonday
More radical fashion from the 16th-century Schembart Carnival here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/radical-fashion-from-the-schembart-carnival-1590
#lodelrol #NoviembreHermetico
tejongallud.com/noviembre-he...
#lodelrol #NoviembreHermetico
tejongallud.com/noviembre-he...
#FolkloreThursday
#FolkloreThursday
Pour bitter tears on its desolated hearth;
Watch the dim shades as like ghosts they go and come,
And complicate strange webs of melancholy mirth."
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
#BookWormSat #poetrysky #romanticpoets #Shelley
Pour bitter tears on its desolated hearth;
Watch the dim shades as like ghosts they go and come,
And complicate strange webs of melancholy mirth."
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
#BookWormSat #poetrysky #romanticpoets #Shelley
Del cómic El libro de la cadena.
Del cómic El libro de la cadena.
El folclore de España está lleno de procesiones de muertos, siendo la más famosa la "Santa compaña". Pero, ¿sabéis cuál es el lejano y curioso origen de este mito? ¿O cómo se protegía la gente ante él?
Hilo mitológico y espectral... 💀👇
El folclore de España está lleno de procesiones de muertos, siendo la más famosa la "Santa compaña". Pero, ¿sabéis cuál es el lejano y curioso origen de este mito? ¿O cómo se protegía la gente ante él?
Hilo mitológico y espectral... 💀👇
"Boggarts, Brownies, Hobs and their Goblin Kin"
bardofcumberland.com/folklore/
#31DaysOfHalloween #booksky
"Boggarts, Brownies, Hobs and their Goblin Kin"
bardofcumberland.com/folklore/
#31DaysOfHalloween #booksky