Folk Lore Collection (page 4)

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

Fairy collects berries in the evening light
A fairy clad in greens, collects dark berries in a sack. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Problem of Lemuria
The location of Lemuria : Lewis Spences suggestion

Fairy Musicians 1920
Demi-silked, dark haired musicians

Traditional Green Man of English folklore - this one is used to illustrate a ballad about Robin Hood... was Robin a folklore entity ?

Satan & Beelzebub
Two eminent devils - SATAN and BEELZEBUB as they are described by Milton in Paradise Lost

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Scylla, a beautiful water nymph, is beloved by Glaucus, but a jealous rival, Circe, will turn her into a monster with six heads, each with three rows of teeth

Gossip about Fairies 36
Children should be warned not to accept rides from strange magic horses - these unhappy kids are riding, alas, to a home neath the waves whence they are unlikely to return

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Water nymphs are the companions of Neptune (Poseidon) and frolic around him as he rides his chariot through the waves

Gossip about Fairies 31
Idle Inny and the Dwarf - an Irish variant on the German tale of Rumpelstiltskin

Gossip about Fairies 30
Many dwarfs work underground, often in the mining industry, notably in the Harz mountains of Germany : but they generally come up at nights. as in the story of Snow-White

Gossip about Fairies 8
Fairy dance - three very conventional fairies perform a simple pas de trois with the moon as spotlight

Mu and Lemuria
The submersion of MU - The great Pacific continent is overwhelmed by a combination of flood and volcanic action

Fairy on a Rose
A fairy on a rose

Fairy Holds Grasses
A fairy supports herself on a stem by holding onto grasses

Pantomime Demon
A popular image of the Devil - more a figure of fun than a menace to be taken seriously

Human-Looking Alien
During the heyday of the American contactees, many of the aliens who visited Earth were quite human in their appearance, though wearing track suits and long hair

The Fairy Coquette - with three wolves which she has just transformed into lambs

Atlantis Site ?
Are the Azores, in mid- Atlantic, the site of the Atlantis continent ?

Witches and a Familiar
Two witches and a familiar - the traditional Black Dog

Alien Entity
Green-skinned alien visitor, similar to the greys who have subsequently established themselves as the most frequently-reported visiting aliens

Old Fairies Dancing
Fairies dancing - a reminder that not ALL fairies are young and dishy !

Assyrian Dragon
In ancient Assyria, Merodach does battle with a dragon

Folklore / Fairies / Goble
Fairies in a mountain landscape

Fairy on Twig
A fairy sits lightly on the twig of a flower

Atlantean Continent Map
Map of the Atlantean Continent showing the extent of the Ice Age

Folklore / Trolls
Askeladen fools the stupid troll

Girl & Dancing Fairies
And if I go tonight, perchance, They ll let me see their fairy dance... circa 1910

Boy enchanted by the fairies of the forest
A boy is enchanted by the fairies of the forest

Three fairies tip-toeing daintily

A fairy flies in front of the Moon

A Fairy Ship of the sky

Fairies stealing fruit
Fruit the Fairies steal away, never comes again

A young girl meets a troll
A girl meets a troll - rather a human-looking one 1908

A Wind Elf and a weathercock circa 1910

MEXICO. Guanajuato. Momies Museum (interior)

Cobla Catalunya, poster by Antonio Clave Sanmartin for the department of propaganda of Generalitat de Catalunya (1938)

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