One can journey to the magical island of Tír na nÓg by misted paths, through murky caves, over and under the sea, by enchanted boat or on Manannán's mythical horse.
#faustianfriday #superstitiology
'Believe in miracles
And cures and healing wells.'
-Seamus Heaney
🎨Edward Poynter
#Superstitiology #OfDarkAndMacabre #BookChatWeekly #BookWormSat
“You have such a #February face,
So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness.”
#Shakespeare , Much Ado About Nothing, Act 5, Sc 4
#Art by John William Waterhouse,1903
#WyrdWednesday #Superstitiology #BookChatWeekly
Walpurgis Night approaches and my head is amok with witches!
Goethe’s poem has many inspiring lines #Folklore #Folklore Thursday #Walpurgisnacht #ofdarkandmacabre #witch es #witch #Superstitiology
#gothicspring
Cats will sometimes stare at walls because they hear little noises coming from the inside. It has been commonly thought that this behavior is because they see ghosts or demons that are invisible to us. #wyrdwednesday #ofdarkandmacabre #superstitiology
'A Katzenmann (cat man) lingers in the corn... clearly such satyr-like beings fill the life of the fields, the meadows, and the forest.' (Mannhardt)
🎨 Jorge Mascarenhas
#ofdarkandmacabre #bookwormsat #caturday #Superstitiology
Demonical possession can be cured by giving the possessed 3 substances not made by human hand: honey, milk, salt. Mix them & drink in a sea shell before dawn
(From Ancient Cures, Charms & Usages of Ireland (1890) by Lady Wilde) #WyrdWednesday #BookChatWeekly #superstitiology
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🍃:: Art by Jackie Morris :: 'Raven' ~From the book
'The Lost Words' by Robert MacFarlane :: 🍃
#ofdarkandmacabre #MythologyMonday #FairyTaleTuesday #WyrdWednesday #FolkloreThursday #Artists #pagan #DailyFolklore #WomensArt #Superstitiology #birds #art
#FairyTaleTuesday Beware of the Harz Mountains! The woods there have long been associated with all sorts of folktales and superstitions, and are the setting for Frederick Marryat's story 'The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains' (1839) #OfDarkAndMacabre #Superstitiology 1/
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💫:: Artwork by Jackie Morris :: 'Magpie' ~From the book
'The Lost Words' by Robert Macfarlane ::💫
#ofdarkandmacabre #MythologyMonday #FairyTaleTuesday #WyrdWednesday #FolkloreThursday #Artists #pagan #DailyFolklore #WomensArt #Superstitiology #birds #art
'and you faded into the pattern
of grass and shadows, and I returned
smiling and haunted, to a dark morning'
-To a Snake, Denise Levertov
🎨Fatima Ronquillo
#Superstitiology #BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly #OfDarkAndMacabre
In Brittany, witches and priests were believed able to raise a whirlwind; even to control & travel on such a wind. Some thought the whirlwind was the Devil carrying a soul to Hell or that it contained a witch condemned to forever wander the earth. #WyrdWednesday #Superstitiology
“Their dancing is perfect, the only drawback being the fact that it blights the grass, “fairy-rings” of dead grass, apparently caused by a peculiar fungous growth, being common in Ireland”
#FolkloreThursday
#Superstitiology
Irish Wonders by D. R. McAnally, Jr.
Kawanabe Kyosai : Kyosai rakuga 暁斎楽画 (Kyosai's Drawings for Pleasure) #superstitiology #DailyFolklore #ofdarkandmacabre #villageofstrange #Occult #witchcraft #illustrationart #bookworms #japan #ukiyoe #wallango #woodblockprints
#Fairytaletuesday #superstitiology
A Polish legend tells of a cat who called for help after her kittens fell into a river.Willow trees appeared and extended their branches to the kittens in the water. It's believed the furry buds on willows are where the kittens once clung.
The Cailleach, the Old Woman of Winter, traditionally gathers her firewood today at Imbolc. If the weather is fair she can gather more, so she’ll linger for longer, and there’ll be worse weather to come for a while yet! #WyrdWednesday #Superstitiology
Once a vampire is staked through the heart, be on the lookout for a butterfly or moth fluttering away from the corpse. This may be the vampire's soul trying to escape and find a new body.
#wyrdwednesday #Superstitiology #gothicspring
Art by AngelaRizza on Deviantart
The lead sheep of a flock would often have a bell hung around its neck, designating it as the bellwether (Middle English) It has eventually come to mean a person who is a trendsetter.
art by Vicki Sawyer
#folkloresunday #superstitiology
