Folk Lore Collection (page 3)

Osborne Serpent
Head, shoulders and flippers of the ridged marine creature sighted from the royal yacht Osborne off the coast of Sicily (picture 2 of 2)

Wales / Beddgelert
The supposed location of the folklore tale of the dog Gelert

Sir Benjamin Stone
SIR BENJAMIN STONE Statesman, MP for Birmingham, best known for his photography - portraits of politicians and British folklore customs and festivals

Unicorn & Reptiles
A unicorn, with assorted reptiles, and a Latin motto: " Not with might, but with virtue"

Town in Winter Evening
A street in Meissen, on a winters evening

Edyrn at Caerleon
CAERLEON IN USK Edyrn draws near to King Arthurs court

Fairies Dancing in Ring
Fairies dance in the moonlight

Gossip about Fairies 24
Fairies live on good terms with animals and birds - here, fairies are combing goats beards, something which goats themselves find it hard to do, having no hands (or combs)

Gossip about Fairies 14
Titania, queen of the Fairies, is magically enamoured of Bottom, the Weaver, who has been magically endowed with a donkeys head - scene from A Midsummer Nights Dream

Faust & Black Dog
Faust and Wagner see the Black Dog - a sinister symbol (scene from Goethes drama)

Folklore / Unicorns
The figure of the CAMPHUR, an amphibious beast found in Ethiopia, a species of unicorn

End of a Vampire
The end of a Bohemian vampire - his coffin is opened, and a red-hot iron is plunged into his evil heart

Maze at Sens
Circular maze in the cathedral at Sens, France

Fairies and Snowball
Fairies and children play with a giant snowball, each seeing which can push it hardest

Mermaids and Torpedoes
The Mer-people find their peaceful domain invaded by the torpedoes of World War One

Mermaids in Waves
Two mermaids ride a big wave

Satan Leads the Dance
SATAN LEADS THE DANCE

Demons and St Antony
Saint Antony is fiercely harassed by hideous demons who seek to persuade him to give up his saintly ways

Dragon of Wantley
THE DRAGON OF WANTLEY seizes another victim

Visit from a Fairy
A girl is visited by a friendly fairy in bed at night, and gets taken on a wonderful journey

PERI
A winged creature from Persian mythology, once considered malevolent but later perceived as good, beautiful creatures angelic in behaviour as well as in appearance Date: circa 1860

At the Serpentine
Fairies at the Serpentine in Kensington Gardens

Fairy checking her blonde hair amid the flowers
A glamourous fairy sat atop a daisy, checks her flowing blonde tresses in a golden hand mirror. Watercolour painting (set in an attractive decorative border) by Malcom Greensmith

LEMURIA
The Lost Continent of Lemuria, located in todays Pacific Ocean, may have housed a highly developed civilisation with advanced technology and a sophisticated culture

Mu Revealed by Tony Earll (nom de plume of Raymond Buckland) which describes a successful archeological expedition to find the manuscript of a priest of Mu

Bethurums Contact
Aura Rhanes, from the planet Clarion, encountered by Truman Bethurum in the California desert

Beyond the Poles
The legendary Land Beyond the Poles said to exist at both Poles : Admiral Byrd reported something of the sort during his 1929 South Pole overflight

Ball of Light
A Fairy and a Little Man appear in a ball of light

Demonic Frog
A demon, in the form of a frog, seeks to persuade a married noblewoman to exchange her chastity for his gold

Fairy Ring / Greenaway
A girl in a woodland clearing stands with her back against a great tree with her apron over her head. She has accidentally broken a fairy ring to the displeasure of a fairy

Patagonian Giants
In Patagonia, South America, Captain Byron, in the Dolphin, encounters a race of giants; offered ships biscuit by one of the crew, they accept warily

Folklore / Demons / Incubus
An incubus in the form of a bird perches upon its helpless victim

Folklore / Lupeux
A sinister creature of the night in Berry, central France, the mocking cry of the LUPEUX can lure the unwary passer-by into dangerous bogs

FAIRY FOOD
Fairies feed an earth-child on night-mist flavoured with the scent of flowers

Fairy Musicians
Three fairy musicians, wearing sashes, fly through the air, making music as they go

Fairies Dance in Air
Five sky-clad fairies dance in the air above a lake

Fishing for Stars
A group of fairies fishing in the river for stars

Tarot Card 15 - Le Diable (The Devil). Date: 20th century

I saw the banshee flying, wild in the Wind of March... 1912

The Rolling Stone, at Putts Corner, Gittisham, Devon, England. Local folklore says that on a full moon the stone rolls down to the River Sid to wash away sacrificial blood

The Bogey-Beast
The cheerful old lady considers herself lucky to encounter the BOGEY- BEAST, a mischievous but not particularly dangerous folklore creature

Satan and Lucifer welcome the souls of the damned to the mouth of Hell Date: 1508

Mermaid (Rackham)
Lots of mermaids on the rocks [illustration to The Three Golden Apples] Date: 1922

FAIRY FOLK
Fairy folk by an old gnarled tree

NYMPH ECHO

Bellerophon & Chimera
One of the tasks he has to perform for Iobates, king of Lycia, is to slay the CHIMERA, which he does with the aid of the winged horse PEGASUS

The Fairy Wife
Andrew King and the Fairy Wife - illustration to a story by Maurice Hewlett

Swedish Nisse / Svenska
A Swedish Nisse helps himself to the millers flour Date: 1882

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