#FairyTaleTuesday 🌿 #FairyTaleFlash ✨
March Madness: Leprechauns, Hares & Witches Folklore — an adult coloring book inspired by Celtic & European lore.
🍀 Leprechauns
🐇 Shapeshifting hares
🧙♀️ Witches on the spring wind
Unwind, create, and awaken the season. 🌸
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🐾🖤🐾"It strayed unbound, intentionally freed from its accustomed bonds and byways, a law unto itself. An elemental entity, birthed at a pivotal shift lost in the deep past, when a friend was refined from a foe."
📖Deeper Older Darker.
#MythologyMonday #FairyTaleFlash #BookChatWeekly
A leprechaun repairs a shoe. Illustration by Warwick Goble.
The leprechaun bent over the fine fairy boot. Repairing them was ticklish - the sidhe imbued their footwear with strange spells, and didn't care how much they wore them out with dancing. Hard to repair without shredding the magic, but was there a better way to earn a pot of gold?
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🍀 This #FairytaleTuesday, an old Irish toast reminds us…
the finest ships are friendships. 💚
A little St. Patrick’s Day wisdom, wrapped in folklore charm. 🍀
#StPatricksDay 💚 #FairyTaleFlash 🍀
#FairyTaleTuesday #GuinessChocolateCake
Moonlit whispers from the Aos Sí swirl 'round the enchanted "Guinness Chocolate Cake," a St. Patrick's Day favorite dessert. #FairyTaleFlash ✨ #StPaddysDay
Rich stout-infused layers, velvety frosting, hidden charms of luck & love...
Out here? beauties and beasts collide / coincide / coexist.
Beautiful crazy? that's a good description of the atmosphere.
An enigma along with other descriptions on a long list.
Endeavors? misbegotten, but here? par for the course.
#songtitleprompt, #FairyTaleFlash, #DailyPrompt, #WeirdVSS
I apologize; sorry, but there's no sultry syllables to sway..
..you to come my way with promises of prosperity!
No badge of honor out here on the edge of honor or horror..
..where we deal with beauties and beasts! any hope for tomorrow?
#FoxProse, #vssfantasy, #DailyPrompt, #FairyTaleFlash
Bathed in moonlight per this Lunar Eclipse / Full Moon in Virgo.
A nightshift wordsmith's domain so he has work to do!
Not a sloth out here skulking, working / success stalking!
To be or not to be? please! we're claiming it, we'll keep walking!
#OurPoetryX, #Amatory, #SciFiMicro, #FairyTaleFlash
Photo of the shadowy moon
I am Selene, goddess of the Moon. At the beginning of time, I went to war. My curved horns flashed against the giants and the monsters who sought to devour the gods. Few remember. I remember. All my wounds remind me. The scars and craters that forever mark the face of the moon.
#FairyTaleFlash
Photo of ravens in a tree
After the Welsh goddess Modron's newborn son Mabon was stolen from his crib, it was centuries before she had the courage to give birth to another. We, the 300 Ravens of Kenverchyn, stand guard as Owain slumbers in his crib. We will always watch him. We will never leave him.
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#FairyTaleTuesday #FairyTaleFlash
The Second Branch of the Mabinogi tells of Brân, High King of Britain, and of his sister Branwen's ill-fated marriage to the Irish King Matholwch.
To escape the cruelty inflicted on her in Ireland, Branwen trained a starling to carry a message to her brother.
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🌫️🐾🌫️"Purpose promised itself to him up there, the stark cold grey swarmed with intent. There was a role for him amongst those torn clouds, a wind to lift him onto its many backs.
A place in the hunt."
📖Deeper Older Darker.
#FairyTaleFlash #WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday
Felt a star's love; thankfully it was an otherworldly muse!
Now bear witness as the nightshift wordsmith will take a cruise..
..through the galaxy; I didn't let pain be a guide..
..as the winter solstice approaches; into the future we slide!
#LoveLetters, #WeirdMicro, #Amatory, #FairyTaleFlash
🎨 The Arrival of the King and Queen of Fairies, is Evelyn Stuart Hardy
🧚♀️✨ #FairyTaleTuesday ✨🧚♀️
Elphame, the enchanting Fairy Queen, of Scottish and English Traditions, rules over the mystical realm of the fairies.
Known for her beauty, wisdom, and magical power, she embodies the wonder and mystery of the fairy world. #QueenElphame #FairyTaleFlash
✨ #FairyTaleTuesday ✨
In Welsh folklore, #Cerridwen is celebrated as the Queen of magic and transformation. Keeper of the sacred cauldron, she embodies wisdom, power, and sovereignty—truly a regal queen of the Celtic mystical realm. 👑🌿 #Cerridwen #Welshfolklore #FairyTaleFlash ✨
The Morrigan Celtic Queen of War by Iren Horrors
🌿✨ #FairyTaleTuesday ✨🌿
The #Morrigan, the mighty Celtic queen and triple goddess, embodies war, sovereignty, and transformation. Often appearing as a trio of goddesses, she rules over fate and change with strength and mystique. A powerful symbol of sovereignty and rebirth. 🌙🦅 #FairyTaleflash
Art by Elena Ringo
❄️ #FairyTaleTuesday ❄️
Published by Hans Christian Andersen in 1844, The Snow Queen is a captivating tale of love, friendship, and courage. When a wicked spell traps Kay in the icy grip of the Snow Queen, it’s up to Gerda to rescue him and restore warmth to their world. 👑✨ #SnowQueen #FairyTaleFlash
✨ #Fairytaletuesday ✨
Published by Hans Christian Andersen in 1835, The Princess and the Pea is a charming tale about a princess with a keen sense of touch. When a prince's mother seeks to find a real princess, a tiny pea hidden under many mattresses reveals her true royal nature. 👑🌱 #FairyTaleFlash
Reminded of this old #FairyTaleFlash
He kissed the princess, smiled as she woke. She struck so fast that he didn’t have time to stop smiling before he fell to the floor. When there was nothing left but his bones, she smiled back at him, then returned to her bed to sleep and wait for her true love.
Poetic justice? they said throwing hands can be poetic too!
Caught them pulling up like Vikings from Minnesota, Nordic too!
Felt entitled, said surely this world is mine!
Leap of faith taken, now trying to find their lost mind!
#kaytpoemprompts, #FairyTaleFlash, #BraveWrite, #PennedReveries
🌿🪦🌿"Folklore claimed that churchyard yews would stretch a root to the mouth of each corpse, making a hidden green-man of every buried body. Their essence would be drawn in with the sap. The tree would remember them."
📖Deeper Older Darker
#FairyTaleTuesday #thicktrunktuesday #FairyTaleFlash
#FairyTaleTuesday #FairyTaleFlash
'Johnny Reed,' said black cats in the night
'Tell Dan Radcliffe, Peggy has died!'
Johnny rushed home and said to his wife,
'I must tell Dan Radcliffe, Peggy has died."
His cat cried, 'What, Peggy dead!'
And shot out the door into the night
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A castle covered in mist in the early morning rises up out of trees, against the sky
It was the castle of the vampire, mad scientist or ghost. An evil location, sometimes destroyed at the end. It grew a mind from reappearing in tales across books and films, always the same form in the multiverse of fiction It embodied the Gothic, thought gone but always returning. #FairyTaleFlash
#FairyTaleTuesday 🏡 #FairyTaleFlash
“Hansel and Gretel“ a German fairy tale collected by the Grimm brothers, published in 1812.
In the enchanted forest , Hansel & Gretel find a candy-clad cottage . The witch’s oven burns with malice , but Gretel’s wit prevails. #HanselandGretel
🎨 Arthur Rackham
On #FairyTaleTuesday, we revisit the classic tale: ✨
📖 Rooted in folklore, the Brothers Grimm’s 1812 story celebrates resilience and empowerment — where Rapunzel, once trapped, becomes the queen of her own fate within the Castle’s walls. 🏰 #Castle #Rapunzel
#FairyTaleFlash
🎨 Madelyn MacLeod
#FairyTaleTuesday 🏡 #FairyTaleFlash 💀
Baba Yaga’s Cottage dances on chicken legs in a moonlit glade . 🌕🏡
Her pestle steers a mortar through shadows, weaving curses .
A brave girl seeks her aid, dodging skulls’ fiery gaze . 💀
Wit wins her freedom. 🦉
#Slavicfolklore 🧙♀️ #BabaYaga 🏡💀🎃
🎨 James Schultz
#CapeCod #FairyTaleTuesday #FairyTaleFlash
When Autumn falls on the Long Land all the creatures line the shore to bid Whale safe travels to the North...
#CapeCod #FairyTaleTuesday #FairyTaleFlash
Badger packs his favorite snacks for the the long journey to the big water!
#FairyTaleTuesday ⛰️
Cherokee medicine people called rain from Smoky Mountain peaks with song and sacred tobacco. In Appalachia, “Granny witches” heal with plant wisdom—brewing catnip tea for headaches and restful sleep
#FairyTaleFlash #SmokyMountains #AppalachianFolkMagic #GrannyMagic #CatnipTea
