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The blue men of the Minch are blue humanoids from Scottish folklore who live in the Minch - the water between the Outer Hebrides and mainland Scotland. They will shout two lines of poetry to a ship's captain. If he cannot complete the verse, the blue men will capsize his ship.#FairyTaleTuesday #Mythology #Folklore #Celtic #Scotland #Monster #Merfolk #Mermaid

In Norse mythology, Thor was god of not just the storm's destructive thunder and lightning, but also its nurturing rain. This made him a god of fertility, and he had power over crops, farmers, marriages, children, and the family in general. W. G. Collingwood#MythologyMonday #Mythology #Folklore #Norse #Vikings #Scandinavia #Thor

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In Norse myths, the god Heimdallr is the son of Odin and nine mothers (who are all sisters). The surviving myths don't explain how this happened. Some sources say Heimdallr's mothers were ocean jotnar called Gjalp, Greip, Eistla, Angeyja, Ulfrun, Eyrgjafa, Imd, Atla, and Jarnsaxa. W. G. Collingwood#WyrdWednesday #Mythology #Folklore #Norse #Vikings #Scandinavia

In Greek mythology, the snake-woman Echidna gave birth to Cerberus, the Hydra, the Chimera, Ladon, the Sphinx, the Nemean Lion, and the two-headed dog Orthrus. In some versions, the father of all these was the monstrous dragon Typhon, but in others, Orthrus fathered the Chimera, Sphinx, and Nemean Lion. Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire #WyrdWednesday #GothicSpring #Mythology #Folklore #Greece #Monster

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

In Scottish and Irish folklore, the cù-sìth is a green fairy dog the size of a small cow. It normally hunts silently, but will sometimes bark three times. These barks can be heard for miles; anyone who hears them must reach a safe place by the third bark or die of fright.#FairyTaleTuesday #GothicSpring #Folklore #Mythology #Celtic #Scotland #Ireland #Fairy #Monster #Dog

In Norse mythology, Thor had rescued the man Aurvandill from Jotunheim, but while Thor was carrying him on his back in a basket across an icy river, Aurvandill's big toe froze solid. As the toe couldn't be saved, Thor threw it into the sky to become the star "Aurvandill's Toe." Asaf Kliger#MythologyMonday #Mythology #Folklore #Norse #Vikings #Scandinavia #Thor

According to folklore, when Merlin prophesized that a baby born on May 1st of that year would destroy King Arthur, Arthur ordered all the British babies born on that day to be placed into a little boat and pushed out to sea. All drowned in a storm except one - the newborn Mordred. #FolkloreSunday #GothicSpring #Mythology #Folklore #Wales #Celtic #KingArthur #Arthuriana #Arthurian

In the Goetia, Shax is a marquis who commands 30 legions of demons on evil horses. He can be summoned by a sorcerer to rob a person of anything. Sometimes Shax gives sorcerers good familiars, but other times he instead gives them treacherous ones. He is annoyed if summoned too often. Louis Le Breton#WyrdWednesday #GothicSpring #Folklore #Mythology #Demonology #Occult #Witchcraft #Monster #Demon #Devil

#FolkloreSunday: „Maypole dancing was outlawed in Puritan England in 1644. It is probable that it was not so much the dances themselves that caused concern but the usual aftermath, the “greenwood weddings” of young people who spent #Beltane night together under the pretext of gathering flowers to deck the town next morning, for the Puritans complained that girls who went a-maying “did not one of them return a virgin.”Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`

Cockaigne is an imaginary land of plenty from medieval folklore, where peasants live a life of luxury and ease. Food and drink are everywhere (the sky rains cheese), and neither lords nor priests are allowed to boss peasants around. It represents both wish fulfillment and resentment towards scarcity and Christian asceticism. Pieter Bruegel the Elder#WyrdWednesday #Mythology #Folklore #Medieval #MiddleAges #Cockaigne #Cockayne #RockCandyMountain

In Greek mythology, the golden fruit of the goddess Hera grows in the Garden of the Hesperides. Though this fruit is usually envisioned as apples, some people have theorized they're actually oranges. Thus, the Greek botanical name for all citrus is "hesperidoeidē." Edward Burne-Jones#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #Folklore #Mythology #Greece #Art #EdwardBurneJones

A hulder (or huldra) is a forest fairy in Scandinavian folklore who seduces people traveling through her woods. Once in her embrace, a man will discover the hulder has some inhuman feature, such as an animal's hairy legs and tail or a hollow back (like some old tree). Iren Horrors#FairyTaleTuesday #GothicSpring #Mythology #Folklore #Norse #Scandinavia #Fairy #Faerie #Monster

The redcap (or powrie) is a murderous goblin from Anglo-Scottish folklore. They inhabit ruined castles along the Anglo-Scottish border, especially ones infamous for wicked deeds, and dye their caps red with their victims' blood. While most fairies fear iron, redcaps often wear iron shoes. Alan Lee#MythologyMonday #Mythology #Folklore #Britain #Scotland #Gaelic #Celts #Monster #Fairy #AlanLee

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The meaning and origin of the magic word "abracadabra" is hotly debated. Its first known mention was in a 2nd-century medical text by the Roman physician Serenus Sammonicus, who said malaria sufferers should wear an amulet with "abracadabra" written in the form of a triangle. It was later used on a wide range of other healing amulets, as well as a magic formula by Gnostics to invoke beneficent spirits against disease and misfortune.#WyrdWednesday #Mythology #Folklore #Superstition #Rome #Italy #Occult #Magic #Abracadabra

The gwiber was a huge serpent in Welsh folklore that could move equally well through land, sea, and air. It couldn't be defeated in fair combat, but was shot with arrows as it slept. The gwiber's children were much smaller and weaker - the first adders of Britain. C. C. J. Ellis#FairyTaleTuesday #Mythology #Folklore #Wales #Celtic #Monster #Dragon #Snake #Serpent

Flogdrakes are wingless serpentine dragons in Swedish and Finnish folklore. They glow while flying across the sky, looking like streaks of fire or shooting stars. Flogdrakes will drill into mountains to create long tunnels where they live and hide their treasure. In some legends, certain gnomes can transform into flogdrakes. Ramesh Kumar R#FairyTaleTuesday #GothicSpring #Mythology #Folklore #Sweden #Finland #Scandinavia #Monster #Dragon