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WINGED MERFOLK Melusina, of French medieval legend, is associated with fountains and springs and her tail is of a serpent rather than a fish. Her husband famously denounces her shape as demonic. Thomas Keightley retells her tale in Fairy Mythology, 1850 #FairyTaleTuesday

MERMAID HELMET dated 1643 & made by Filippo Negroli (The Met Museum NY). In the mythical scenes, the #mermaid siren forming the helmet's comb holds a grimacing head of Medusa by the hair

SPOOKY TREES that inspire their own folklore; 'The Screaming Tree', Epping Forest; 'Enchanted Pixie Tree', Cheshire; 70ft Beech tree, Bury St Edmonds, nicknamed 'The World's Scariest Tree' #FolkloreSunday

The Other Side (1918) by American illustrator and muralist Dean Cornwell (1892-1960)

'The Singing Fairy' from Midsummer night’s dream by Charles Mills Sheldon , 1905 #MidsummerNightsDream #Fairy #illustration

I love this book. Reading it right now and there’s a gem every page.

Nosferatu (1922)

Your Daily Dracula – Traditional Family Vampires (2000) vimeo.com/298279422

illustration to Goethe’s nightmarish poem “Der Erlkönig," by Moritz von Schwind, c. 1830 #painting #art #DerErlkönig

Helen Chandler and Frances Dade as Mina and Lucy in DRACULA 1931

Tomorrow!

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MERMEN Benign Man Fish complete with scales supposedly caught in the Baltic Sea in 1531 and its evil counterpart Satyrus Marinus or sea devil from Johann Zahn's 1696 work Specula physico-mathematico-historica notabilium ac mirabilium sciendorum #MythologyMonday

I have research students doing interesting work on this genre...

As we drift towards #Midsummer on 24 June, when the veil between the worlds is thin & faery magic abounds, it should be remembered that the fae are very tricky. However iron or salt placed across the doorstep will protect your home. #FairyTaleTuesday #SummerSolstice

🌞 #FairyTaleTuesday 🌻 Welsh Summer Solstice Folklore! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌞 In Wales, the summer solstice, Alban Hefin—was believed to be a magical time when the veil between worlds was thin. 🧚‍♀️Folklore tells of the Tylwyth Teg, the mystical Welsh fairies, gathering near lakes and meadows on

“The ghost-stories are begun by all but me.” —Dr. Polidori, 17 June 1816

This is the mockup of the cover for our forthcoming book (published Nov?) on changeling folklore from throughout West Eurasia and the Arabic Mediterranean. (There are very few changelings elsewhere...) 18 chapters with many talented authors.

The proposal deadline for ‘Revisiting Oral Narrative: Anthropology, Folklore and History’ is Monday 30th June 2025

Dr Polidori begins his ghost story today... then madness ensues after Lord Byron reads lines from Coleridge’s poem ‘Christabel’. Not only was Shelley ‘influenced’ by the poem, so was Edgar Allan Poe, and it may have had an influence on Le Fanu’s vampire novella Carmilla (1872).