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The Dispute of Minerva and Neptune by René-Antoine Houasse (circa 1689 or 1706)

Theodor Severin Kittelsen (1857 – 1914) was a Norwegian artist. Kittelsen became famous for his nature paintings, as well as for his illustrations of fairy tales and legends, especially of trolls.

Tunnel of trees in Natural Park Migliarino San Rossore, Pisa, Italy

In Scotland and Ireland the Cailleach is both a weather deity, divine hag and creator goddess. In Scotland she is known as Beira, Queen of Winter, and is known to have created mountain ranges. She is connected to the cold, snow and winds.
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(Art: Eran Fowler. Photo: Ceann na Caillí ('The Hag's Head'), the southernmost tip of the Cliffs of Moher in County Clare. One of many locations named for the Cailleach.)

SCHNEEWITTCHEN is the original Snow White tale shown here in this German illustration c. 1919 #FolkloreThursday

One night in Iceland, two trolls went across Skagafjörður with their cow. Half away the day came and they all turned into stone. The cow became the island Drangey and the trolls became two narrow cliffs. One cliff remains, the other fell in an earhquake in 1755.
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When King Gylfi ruled Sweden, he spent a night with Gefjon and agreed to let her have as much land as she could plough round in a day. She turned her sons into oxen, yoked them to a plough, and ploughed out the island of Zealand which they dragged into the sea.
#FolkloreThursday (Detail of the Gefjon Fountain (1908) by Anders Bundgaard

Aeaea was a mythological island said to be the home of the Greek goddess and witch Circe. Odysseus stayed there with her for a year on his way home to Ithaca after she transformed his crew into pigs.
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(Painting: Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses, John William Waterhouse)

In Finnish mythos, the Utuneito are mist-maidens, fairy-like beings who were made from morning mist. As the sun rises, Uteneito gather above lakes and ponds to sing hauntingly beautiful songs and dance together #FolkloreThursday

Huldufólk (hidden people) live throughout the Faroe Islands as mounds and rocky outcroppings. Described as large, black haired and wearing gray clothing, and hating modern ways of life. It’s said the moans and screams of the Huldufolk can be heard coming from within the mounds #FolkloreThursday

Tír na nÓg is a supernatural island paradise, a magical realm of everlasting beauty and life. Its inhabitants are the Tuatha Dé Danann. #FolkloreThursday

Tory Island at Donegal - Eithlinn was locked in a glass tower on the island by her father Balor, king of the island, when it was foretold his grandson would kill him. When Cian arrived to Tory Island to find Balor, the first man Eithlinn ever met, one thing led to another... #FolkloreThursday
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