Spring isn’t gentle. 🌿
Growth breaks things before it builds them.
Folklore, gardens, and the hard magic of letting go.

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#FolkloreWednesday #SpringMagic

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Cane-wielding garden gremlin 🦴 with a medical alert service dog sidekick 🐾. Writer ✒️ & disability advocate ♿ behind The Crippled Cryptid.

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The dog knew first. 🐾
Before the diagnosis. Before the words.

Some stories are older than medicine.

🌿 On Familiars & the Dogs Who Know
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#GotchaDay #FolkloreWednesday #ServiceDog #LunaTheServiceDingo #Adoptiversary #Folklore

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🌿 On Familiars, Fetches, and the Dogs Who Know

Before Luna ever learned how to alert- she knew. Before I had language for what my body was doing, she was already listening to it. If this were an old story, no one would question it. They would j…

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Fairy roads aren’t just Irish legend- they’re lessons in respecting unseen paths. Energy limits, body boundaries, and the wisdom of slowing down. 🌿✨ Luna the one-eyed service dog insists I listen. #FolkloreWednesday #ChronicIllness #ServiceDog #Disability #IrishFolklore

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Fairy Roads & the Cost of Ignoring Them

Ireland’s countryside hides invisible lines called fairy paths- straight stretches of land respected by farmers for centuries. Step across them carelessly, folklore warns, and misfortune follows. L…

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Knockers in the mines, púcaí on the roads, and Luna, my service dog, chasing chaos. Sometimes the edge between safe and sorry is where life- and magic- lives. 🌿🖤 Read more: https://linktr.ee/skylanarissa
#FolkloreWednesday #Disability #ServiceDog

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Cane-wielding garden gremlin 🦴 with a medical alert service dog sidekick 🐾. Writer ✒️ & disability advocate ♿ behind The Crippled Cryptid.

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Did you know disabled and neurodivergent children were sometimes thought to be changelings? 🧚‍♀️
Folklore, fear, and grief collide in stories that still echo today.
Explore the myths, history, and what they mean now 👉 [link]
#FolkloreWednesday #Disability #Neurodiversity #Changelings #FaeTales

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Folklore Wednesday: Changelings, Cradles, & Community Fear

Changelings weren’t just fairy tales- they were a reflection of fear, grief, and the unknown in communities where difference wasn’t understood. From disabled children to neurodivergent kids, storie…

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The Fae cannot lie, red can provoke them, and iron is your friend. Ancient warnings from the Good Folk still hold lessons for survival today. #FolkloreWednesday #CrippledCryptid

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The Good Folk Are Not Your Friends

The Good Folk are not quaint neighbors borrowing sugar- they are ancient, clever, and indifferent to human comfort. Beauty is never proof of safety. Listen to the warnings, honor the rules, and sur…

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✨ “The Fae don’t lie,” the old tales say…
But they never said the truth was safe, either. 🍂
This week on The Crippled Cryptid, we’re talking about half-truths, wordplay, and why silence might be the sharpest trick of all.
Would you trust a promise from the Fae?
#FolkloreWednesday

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🌕 The Fae and the Lies They Tell (or Don’t)

They say the Fae can’t lie- but that doesn’t mean the truth is safe. This Folklore Wednesday, we’re exploring the art of half-truths, clever bargains, and why silence might be the sharpest trick of…

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In the walls, under the hearth, and buried in the garden- witch bottles once guarded homes from curses. Pins, herbs… even urine? Would you dare open one? 🪄🪣 #FolkloreWednesday

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Folklore Wednesday: The Witch Bottles of Old Europe

Once hidden under hearthstones and behind walls, witch bottles were the ultimate 16th–18th century DIY curse repellent. Packed with pins, herbs, and sometimes more unpleasant ingredients, they were…

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🧚‍♀️✨ This week’s #FolkloreWednesday is a love letter to the books that enchanted and scarred me in the best ways. From changelings to goblin kings, here are my favorite Fae-ish reads—fairytales for the feral-hearted. 🌒📚

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Folklore Wednesday: Faerie Tales for the Feral-Hearted

“The Fae have always called to me- through books, through stories, through that strange shimmer at the edge of the woods. This Folklore Wednesday, I’m sharing the books that carved runes into my so…

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