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In North Germany, it was said if you wish to see witches on May-day, go into church on Good Friday, but be sure not to stop to hear the benediction...! #GoodFriday #GothicSpring

In Galway, the Banshee "glides quicker than human feet can walk". Over in Mayo, she "hops like a magpie and even a horse at full stretch can't overtake her". You'll never catch her... #FairytaleTuesday #OfDarkAndMacabre

Bells were silenced from Maundy Thursday through to Easter Sunday. On Good Friday, French children were told the bells had flown off to Rome to bring back the Easter Eggs... #GoodFriday #EasterSunday #FolkloreThursday

Hans Andersen's Little Mermaid was inspired by his love & longing for Edvard Collin. Lovely, lonely, biromantic, asexual Andersen sent Collin his story along with a letter, in which he described his soul as being a "fathomless lake"...#FairyTaleTuesday #mermay 🎨Boris Diodorov

#Daffodils symbolise rebirth, resurrection, renewal, new beginnings. In #Greek #myth Persephone was snatched into the Underworld by Hades while picking the #flowers. Also, daffadown & Lent lily, jonquil, goose leek, narcissus & #Easter rose #FairyTaleTuesday

One tale claims Noah couldn't take both unicorn and lion onboard the Ark and chose the latter. Another said the unicorn was too independent to board and instead swam alongside for 40 days & 40 nights, and as a result became extinct... #FairytaleTuesday #UnicornDay

Ogre is a French word, linked to the Etruscan god Orcus. These legendary giants are famous for their unfortunate cannibalistic tendencies, foul body-odor, rotten teeth, and rancid halitosis. art by James C. Christensen #folklore

I've been thinking exactly the same thing. #TransRightsAreHumanRights #misogyny

🚨 It's Mixtape time! 📅This week's theme was decided after a conversation about whether or not our dogs eavesdrop on us... You know what that means... Walkies!🐶 🎵 Which songs have a connection to walking?🚶 Let's hear 'em!👇

Hina was the Polynesian virgin-mother goddess, creator of the world. She was both moon and first woman and gave birth to the gods and the humans. All women are said to embody her spirit... #FairytaleTuesday 🎨Fantin-Latour

Suffolk superstition said if a mother gave away all the baby’s clothes she had, she was certain to have another baby, no matter how unexpected! #FairyTaleTuesday

La Llorona is a wandering weeping spirit. Her myths are many - she lost her children, perhaps she drowned them, and now she weeps and wails and drowns herself in her tears... 🎨Victoria De Almeida #FairyTaleTuesday

NINETEENTH-CENTURY GOTHIC FAIRIES IN FLIGHT Owl-riding fairy from the Grey Fairy Book 1900 and a butterfly-winged Ariel on a Bat's back from Dulac 1908

HAPPY #mermay2025! 🌟This week's prompt 5/11 - 5/17🌟 Share your #vss #story or #poem featuring a 🧜‍♀️✨MERMAID✨🧜‍♀️ in a #fairytale #folktale of #myth Use #FairyTaleFlash for re-post! #FairyTaleTuesday #vssprompt #vss365 #vsspoem #mermay #WritingCommunity #mermaids #Mermaid #story

🖤🖤🖤 #FairyTaleTuesday The Weeping Mermaid of Loch Assynt... It's said the cries of a woman can be heard when exploring the ruins of Ardvreck Castle, which sits on the black waters of Loch Assynt, and this woman is said to be a mermaid... Rumour has it that when the Chief of

The Pm commented "There has been a lot of arson' about"

#Soho let’s help save a beautiful green space any neighbour from more development The Phoenix Garden please sign & #RT #SavePhoenixGarden change.org/p/save-the-pho…

In Zennor Cornwall, a mermaid would attend church to sing with the choir, although the villagers did not know her aquatic identity. She caught the heart of Matty Trewella and together they disappeared to live happily beneath the waves...#FairyTaleTuesday #mermay2025 🎨Weguelin.

In South-West Scotland, babies before they were twenty-one days old would have their right hands "baptized" in the sea to protect them against mermaids... #FairytaleTuesday #mermay2025