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#FairyTaleTuesday #Mermay #Celtic: `Lí Ban sang and swam for three hundred years more until her singing was heard by a monk called Beoán. He spoke to her and befriended her. The following year she was caught in a net by a monk named Fergus of Mulleague. An argument erupted between both monks as to should own her/convert her when an angel appeared and described two stags that would come and take the mermaid to a place ordained by God to be baptised. As with all supernatural beings in that distant world, once given christian baptism, the outcome proved fatal.Lí Ban promptly died.In the medieval illustration, note that the mermaid is clothed in christian modesty.It‘s not decent, not for a siren.`Source: https://kinneydesign.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-tale-of-li-ban-mermaid-of-lough.htmlPhoto: St Brendan and the mermaidHere’s the backstory: https://hear-me.social/@NeuKelte/116561866516941495

#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: “Ye cannot compensate me my shame, setting aside the death of Pryderi,” king Māth of Gwynedd said, “but since ye come hither to be at my will, I shall begin your punishment forthwith.” …Finally he transformed his nephews Gwydion and Gilvaethwy sons of Dōn both into wolves. A year passed; they came back again with a young wolf as before, and this time their penance was deemed complete, and their human nature was restored to them, and Māth gave orders to have them washed and anointed, and nobly clad as was befitting.`Source: Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. Rolleston, Gutenberg eBook

In American tall tales, the axe-handle hound is said to be a fearsome critter of Minnesota and Wisconsin. It resembles a dog with an axe-like body, and only eats the handles of axes which have been left unattended. An axe-handle hound travels from camp to camp searching for its next meal, and strongly dislikes axe handles made from red oak. Margaret Tryon#FairyTaleTuesday #GothicSpring #Folklore #Mythology #TallTale #FearsomeCritter #Cryptid #Monster

#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `High King Art mac Cuinn had a one night stand with Achtan, daughter of a druid/smith named Olc Acha. One night, however, as Achtan slept, exhausted from her day‘s travelling, `a she-wolf came out of the forest and carried off the babe in her mouth to the stone cave [of otay’s Kesh] in which her whelps were being reared.Lughna (Luna), a friend of Art, took poor Achtan to his house, and gave out that whoever could find the child should have whatever reward he desired. For Lughna knew that it was the son of a king.One day a man wandering about the country came by chance in front of a cave where wolf-cubs were playing, and among them a little wild child gamboling on all fours. " Ah," said the wanderer to himself, " this is certainly the lost child." He went to Lughna, and made his bargain with him for lands and property; and then he led Lughna to the cave; and both the boy and the cubs were taken away by him, and brought to his home to be nurtured.The boy grew in comeliness of form and feature, so that he was a joy to many to look upon; in ready speech, too, and fire and pride and high spirit he surpassed all his companions, and Lughna called him Cormac, as Art had desired. `Source: Pagan Ireland by Eleanor Hull

Folklore read live! In Russian folklore, misery is so prevalent that it is an actual character in itself. Hear about Woe LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/oUNDfD_Vh7I#FairyTaleTuesday #WritingCommunity #storyteller #FairyTale #AmReading #reading #indieWriter #fairy #folklore #folk #tales #stories #GrimmBrothers #dnd #dnd5e #pathfinder #pf2e #ttrpg #fantasy #lotr #russian #russia #folklore #legend #woe #misery