Folk Lore Collection (page 11)

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Puck, also known as Robin Goodfellow, is a mischievous but generally good-natured sprite : he has equivalents in the folklore of most cultures

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Tim Domey rides the PHOOKA, an Irish spirit horse which is apt to carry its rider to places he would rather not go to

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ROBIN GOODFELLOW another name for PUCK, a mischievous but generally good-natured sprite of worldwide folklore

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Oberon and Titania, from Shakespeares Midsummer Nights Dream

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The Faerie Queene = poem by Edmund Spenser

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Irish Little Folk - Shuan Long is transported by the Little People to Fairtyland, where he finds himself in a wine cellar

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Irish Little Folk - Shuan Long, an Irish mason, finds the Little People roistering in his cabin

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Fairy origins : Vilis - Samian spirits of the wild

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Fairy origins : Nymphs in classical legend tend a fallen warrior

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Fairy origins : The centaur Nessus seeks to abduct the bride of Herakles

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Title Slide for a Lecture on Fairies

Giant of Ariosto Book
The citizens crowd to watch as the captive giant is led through the streets of their city

Candles for Luck
Good luck will come to the one whose candles burns the longest

Fairy Courtship / Doyle
A Fairy Prince pays court to a fairy, inviting her to share his crown

Fairy Smelling a Flower
A fairy enjoys the scent of a flower

Fairy Chases Dragonfly
A fairy chases a dragonfly, flying over a pool

CENTAUR (D ORSAY)
Centaurs can use weapons just like humans, in addition to their natural endowments, making them fierce warriors

Dragon Hunt Series - 6
The knight is presented to the Master of the Order of the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem, who applauds his deed as worthy of their oath of chivalry

Dragon Hunt Series - 5
The knight rides back into the city in triumph, accompanied by his retainers who carry the corpse of the dragon so that everyone can see it has been well and truly slain

Dragon Hunt Series - 3
The knight seeks out the dragon in his lair and, aided only by his two faithful hounds, engages the dragon in fight

Dragon Hunt Series - 2
The knight kneels in a chapel, praying to the Virgin Mary for strength and courage in his forthcoming fight with the evil monster

Dragon Hunt Series - 1
The knight arrives, hoping to slay the fearful dragon which is terrorising the country

Previewing a Lover
A Spanish girl breaks a raw egg into a glass of water on St Johns Eve : the shape it makes tells her what kind of lover she will have

Norwegian Clover
Three little Norwegian girls carry four-leaved clovers to wish you Godt Nytaar !

Folklore / Salamander
Salamanders amid the flames

Holyrood Chapel
A RUINED ABBEY (the Chapel, Holyrood, Edinburgh)

Counting Daisy Petals
COUNTING DAISY PETALS He loves me, he loves me not

Centaur and Rabbit
A young Centaur catches a rabbit and shows it proudly to the cupid riding on his back

Mores Utopia
The imaginary island of UTOPIA, as described by Sir Thomas More

Meeting the Rubezahl
Two Bohemian (Czech) children, gathering firewood, encounter the Rubezahl - a mysterious wild man who haunts the mountains

Deianeira Abducted
Deianeira, wife of Herakles, is carried off by the centaur Nessus

Frog Prince (Goble)
The princess is delighted when the frog retrieves her golden ball, and runs off with it, forgetting about the promises she made to the frog

Little Red Man
LE PETIT HOMME ROUGE The little red man or devil, traditionally associated (by his enemies) with Napoleon, depicted treating him like a son

Female Centaur & Thyrsus
A centauress gallops with a friend who holds a thyrsus (an ornamental staff), which - with the branch she holds - suggests that they are taking part in Dionysian revelry

Monster Abducts Victims
A scaly monster abducts several unfortunate young men with intent to devour them. (Grendel the monster from the myth of Beowulf)

Folklore / Hydra
Herakles must slay the Hydra of Nemea, whose nine heads are self- renewing : his nephew Iolaus has the answer - cauterise the necks as soon as severed

FUNG HWANG
The magic bird FUNG HWANG (variously spelt) - equivalent to the Phoenix of western folklore, though not identical

A Butterfly Fairy
A butterfly fairy

Monsters Embrace
Love-bite ? or is he drinking her blood ? The line between demon lover and vampire is a narrow one

Sea Serpent Rears Up
An ugly winged serpent of the sea rears up to confront a startled sailor who lets go the ships wheel in fright

Stork / Baby / Jugend 1902
Two storks deliver one baby between them

Stork / Baby / Noah`s Ark
A stork brings a baby in a basket

Kelpie Scares Man / Anon
A water kelpie appears in the water taking a passing gentleman by surprise - Kelpies generally frequent Scottish waters and often appear in human or equine form

A Small Dragon
The queen is terrified by a small dragon - illustration to Mme d Aulnoys tale The frog and the lion-fairy

King on Dragon
The king, riding a dragon, rescues the queen from monsters - illustration to Mme d Aulnoys tale, The frog and the lion-fairy

Dragon (Munster)
Dragons - one with two heads, the other with three - reported by travellers in Asia

Dragon (De Bry)
Flying dragons were among the weird creatures reported from the New World by Vespucci and other explorers

Dragon (Kircher)
A two-legged non-flying dragon, perceived as an animal species rather than an otherworldly monster

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