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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas@mstdn.ca · 4d ago
The oldest surviving King Arthur story is the Welsh folktale "Culhwch and Olwen." In it, most of King Arthur's warriors have superpowers ranging from great strength or flight to stranger ones such as unnatural beauty, unnatural ugliness, or gigantic lips. 🎨 Margaret Jones #FairyTaleTuesday #Mythology #Folklore #Wales #Celtic #KingArthur #Arthurian #MargaretJones
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bevanthomas
Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas@mstdn.ca · 5d ago
The mightiest monster in Welsh legend was Trwyth, an evil man cursed by God to become a gigantic boar. King Arthur led an army of his greatest warriors against him to acquire the golden comb, scissors, and razor entwined in the boar's fur. Trwyth slaughtered many of them. 🎨 Huw Aaron #FairyTaleTuesday #Mythology #Folklore #Wales #Celtic #KingArthur #Arthurian #Monster
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Godyssey
The Godyssey Podcast @Godyssey@pagan.plus · 5d ago
There is an open question in Arthurian canon as to what becomes of Galahad (or Percival in older traditions) when he obtained the Grail. Did he ascend with it to Heaven? Does he now defend it? Did he die? Different authors take different stances. #FairytaleTuesday 🖼: D.D. Crane
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Godyssey
The Godyssey Podcast @Godyssey@pagan.plus · 5d ago
Lohengrin is the Knight of the Swan, an older medieval trope incorporated into the Arthurian cycle. The son of Percival, he rides a boat driven by swans and must never be asked his name by the maiden he rescues, or he can never return. #FairytaleTuesday 🖼️: W. Crane
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Godyssey
The Godyssey Podcast @Godyssey@pagan.plus · 5d ago
Though the Round Table is a symbol of the Knights being equals no matter their rank, it was only added to Arthurian romances in 1155, where Arthur creates the Round Table to deal with quarrelling nobles whose violence breaks Yuletide peace. #FairytaleTuesday
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Godyssey
The Godyssey Podcast @Godyssey@pagan.plus · 5d ago
The sons of Morgause of Orkney are among the most consequential in all of Arthurian lore: Gawaine faces the Green Knight; Agravaine's quarrel with Lancelot brings down the kingdom; the deaths of Gareth and Gaheris ensure war; and Mordred orchestrates collapse #FairytaleTuesday
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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas@mstdn.ca · 5d ago
Merlin first appears in the 12th-century book "History of the Kings of Britain" (by Geoffrey of Monmouth). In there, his only supernatural power is prophecy; Merlin otherwise relies on science. He builds Stonehenge via ancient engineering and uses herbalism to make King Uther look like Gorlois. 🎨 Joan Blaeu #FairyTaleTuesday #Mythology #Folklore #Wales #Celtic #KingArthur #Arthurian #Merlin #Stonehenge
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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas@mstdn.ca · Jul 14, 2026
In Norse mythology, the mountain giantess Skadi married the sea god Njord, as he had lovely legs. But Skadi found that she hated the beach since she couldn't ski and gulls squawked all day, and Njord hated the cold mountains since he couldn't swim and wolves howled all night. 🎨 Laura Daligan #FairyTaleTuesday #Folklore #Mythology #Norse #Vikings #Scandinavia
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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas@mstdn.ca · Jul 14, 2026
The afanc is a Welsh lake monster with poisonous quills that battles Peredur (Sir Percival) and other warriors of King Arthur. Early legends don't describe the afanc, while later depictions vary, such as describing it as a giant fish, a serpent, or even a beaver/crocodile hybrid. 🎨 Sakitaro #FairyTaleTuesday #Mythology #Folklore #Wales #Celtic #KingArthur #Arthuriana #Monster
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The Godyssey Podcast @Godyssey@pagan.plus · Jul 14, 2026
Sailors on the Amazon River often hear tale of the boto encantado, the charming Amazon River dolphin. At night they become handsome men, seducing women on the shore. Children born without a father are said to be the children of Boto here. #FairytaleTuesday
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NeuKelte
1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @NeuKelte@hear-me.social · Jul 07, 2026

#FairyTaleTuesday with a #Celtic #ChristmasInJuly: In regions where Wren Day was traditional, the wren was deeply revered; it was deemed a special bird, the "king of all birds", and harming it was taboo. However, on Wren Day this taboo was "replaced by highly complex rituals that grew out of ancient beliefs". The ninth century Cormac's Glossary derives the Old Irish word for "wren", drean, from druí-én, meaning "druid bird", and says it is "a bird that makes prophecies". Another early Irish text, the Life of Saint Moling, calls the wren "the magus bird, because some take auguries from it". Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wren_Day#Manx_tradition

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Astrobach :breadified: @rorystarr@mstdn.social · Jul 07, 2026
Folklore read live! The Mastermaiden is Folklore's Femme Fatale! See her tricks LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/4D-75dX0JVM #FairyTaleTuesday #WritingCommunity #storyteller #FairyTale #AmReading #reading #indieWriter #fairy #folklore #folk #tales #stories #GrimmBrothers #dnd #dnd5e #pathfinder #pf2e #ttrpg #fantasy #lotr #norwegian #folklore #legend #epic #mastermaiden #maiden #witch #femmefatale #Asbjørnsen #Moe
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bevanthomas
Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas@mstdn.ca · Jul 07, 2026
The artist Iren Horrors depicts various Christmas monsters from Europe: the Krampus (a demon from Central and Eastern Europe), the Yule Cat (a giant cat from Iceland), the Gryla (a hag from Iceland), the Befana (a hag from Italy), and Frau Perchta (a shapeshifter from the German Alps). #FairyTaleTuesday #Mythology #Folklore #Yule #Christmas #Holiday #Monster #IrenHorrors
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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas@mstdn.ca · Jul 07, 2026
The Yule Cat is a huge cat in Icelandic folklore that eats people who did not receive new clothes at Christmas. The cat incentivized farmworkers to finish processing the wool they had collected before Christmas, since they received clothing as a reward. 🎨 Iren Horrors #FairyTaleTuesday #Folklore #Mythology #Norse #Iceland #Monster #Yule #Christmas #IrenHorrors
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Godyssey
The Godyssey Podcast @Godyssey@pagan.plus · Jun 30, 2026
Thor, Loki, and Odin are prone to wandering, sometimes together, going on road trips around the Nine Worlds and often in disguise. Many of Norse myths most famous episodes take place in such journeys. #FairytaleTuesday
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Godyssey
The Godyssey Podcast @Godyssey@pagan.plus · May 05, 2026
Si‘lah are a type of ghul, a flesh-eating djinn that can shapeshift. They can take any forms but one: a wolf. Wolves can detect ghuls and can be used to hunt them, and ghuls are naturally fearful of them. #FairyTaleTuesday
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Godyssey
The Godyssey Podcast @Godyssey@pagan.plus · May 05, 2026
Coyote is god of the wild spaces, the wide open desolation of the North American West, and the god of travelers, of solitude, and of humor good and bad. Sometimes he resembles you; sometimes he looks like me. #FairytaleTuesday 🖼️: S. Slifer
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The Godyssey Podcast @Godyssey@pagan.plus · Apr 28, 2026
Walpurgis Night is the night before St. Walpurgis' feast day, a Saint who defended against rabies, whopping cough, and the powers of witchcraft. Thus witches must celebrate the night before in fear of the saint's power. #FairytaleTuesday 🖼: J.H. Ramberg
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