The FolkLore Press publishes art, books and zines by Stephen G. Rae @BardCumberland; and Land of Lore Films brings these folk tales to life as short film.
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Land of Lore Films beings the folk tales of Stephen G. Rae to life as short film. The FolkLore Press publishes these tales in both print and ebook:
📚 folklorepress.co.uk
🎬 youtube.com/@landoflore
#folklore #shortfilm #booklovers
🎬 The Bloody Redcap
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The superstition that witches favoured brooms as their mode of transport was popularised at the time of the Lancashire Witch Trials. Older sources tell of them travelling by pitchforks, pig troughs, plant stems.
art: Jakub Rozalski #witchwednesday
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"The power of both myth and art is this magical ability to open doors, to make connections - not only between us and the natural world, but between us and the rest of humanity" ~ AL
art: The Wizard Merlin instructing young Arthur by Alan Lee
Hang rowan or holly berries, or a horseshoe above your door to deter a malevolent Boggart from entering
more: "Boggarts, Brownies, Hobs and their Goblin Kin" by Stephen G. Rae
folklorepress.co.uk
#folklore #bookoftheday
art: Stephen G. Rae, the author
A cockatrice took up residence in the ruined church, but a local man killed the creature using rowan tree branch
more: "Folklore of the Lake District" by Stephen G. Rae
folklorepress.co.uk
#folklore #bookoftheday
art: Stephen G. Rae, the author
#WitchWednesday The Janet Tree is the tale of the knitting witch of Shap
read more in: "Folklore of the Lake District" by Stephen G. Rae
folklorepress.co.uk
🎬 Land of Lore Films
#folklore #lakedistrict #booklover
For the regions Arthurian legend, including his father Uther Pendragon and Merlin
read more in: "Folklore of the Lake District" by Stephen G. Rae
folklorepress.co.uk
🎬 Excalibur, 1981; dir. John Boorman
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WITCHFINDER GENERAL (1968): One of the 'Unholy Trinity' of early folk horror films. Vincent Price is perfectly cast as the thoroughly reprehensible Matthew Hopkins. Which is strange, as the real Hopkins died of tuberculosis aged 27!
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Tomorrow (11th November) is Old Samhain (Old Halloween). It marked the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter. Also the beginning of the 'winter revelling season' of drinking, storytelling and mumming.
📷 Mummers, Ireland by Ronan O'Connell
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In my native Scots, 'con' is squirrel (red squirrel)
Red squirrel is frequently seen as a trickster figure and terrible gossip, but having it living near your home protests against malevolent beings.
art: Jean-Baptiste Monge
If taken ill, you may be 'elf-struck', shot with an elven arrow. In lore, the elves got the arrows from faeries, who got them from mermaids
more: "Folklore of the Lake District" by Stephen G. Rae
folklorepress.co.uk
#folklore #lakedistrict #booklover
Drake is a little household spirit in the form of a dragon that keeps the hearth burning, only trouble is he smells of rotten eggs
from: 'Boggarts, Brownies, Hobs and their Goblin Kin' by Stephen G. Rae
folklorepress.co.uk
#dragons #booklover
art: Stephen G. Rae, the author
"He is by profession a maker of brogues... discovered by the sounds which he makes hammering his brogues" ~ Leprechaun by Thomas Keightley
📚 Boggarts, Brownies, Hobs and their Goblin Kin by Stephen G. Rae
folklorepress.co.uk
#FairytaleTuesday #bookoftheday
🖼 W. Anderson
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In my native Ayrshire dialect, 'tod' is fox
Fox is a spirit guide and trickster. In common with the otter, fox is said to carry a magic pearl that brings good luck to whomever finds it.
#FairytaleTuesday #Ayrshire
art: Fox Spirits by Stephanie Bayles
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#FairytaleTuesday The Fairy Steps, Beetham. Carved into limestone rock, local tradition says that if you can negotiate them without touching the sides, fairies will grant you a wish.
from my: "Folklore of the Lake District"
bardofcumberland.com
The "Broon Man" is the dwarf guardian to all wild animals
read more in "Folklore of Scotland" by Stephen G. Rae
folklorepress.co.uk
#folklore #scotland #bookoftheday
art: Stephen G. Rae, the author
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Glaistig may appear as a woman of beauty, but she is half-woman and half-goat, a Nature Spirit similar to a Faun. Her lower half is often disguised under a green robe.
more in my 'Folklore of Scotland'
folkloreofscotland.com
art: Johan Egerkrans
#BritishPuddingDay An angel was visiting a poor Yorkshire woman and after chatting for a while, the woman started making her husband a meal, although she didn't have much in the cupboard. The angel took flour and water, eggs and salt, and set about making a Yorkshire Pudding.
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#mythologymonday courtesy of James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd:
There are fairies, and brownies, and shades Amazonian,
Of harper, and sharper, and old Cameronian:
Some small as pigmies, - some tall as a steeple,
The spirits are all gone as mad as the people.
art: Stephen G. Rae
ALT Scottish brownie
"As me an' me marra was gannin' to wark,
We met wi' the devil, it was I' the dark;
Aw up wi' mi pick, it being I' the neet,
Aw knock't off his horns, likewise his club-feet"
~ folk song, The Collier’s Rant is one of the oldest mining songs, c. 1650
#mythologymonday
