#BookwormSat 🍂🧚‍♀️🐈 #Caturday
#Autumn is the time when the veil thins, #Cats can see throught it.
Cats were thought to be able to see through the magical illusions, or "glamour," of the Fae.

This allowed them to discern a Fairy's true form, making them natural protectors against deceitful or malicious spirits.🐈🧚‍♀️
#Fairylore 🧚‍♂️🍂

🎨"Cat Among the Fairies,"
Art by John Anster Fitzgerald (1819 -1906)

I have a question on fairy lore and changelings for a folklorist. Anybody?

I have a question on #fairylore and #changelings for a #folklorist. Anybody?

#folklore #fairy #fairies #mythology #changeling #lore

There is a ballad that tells the story of a man transformed into a worm after rejecting the advances of a witch. He is cursed to circle around a tree until one Halloween when the Seelie court rides by and a Fairy Queen returns him back to his orginal form.

Here is the ballad:

https://tam-lin.org/stories/Allison_Gross.html

#fairies #fairy #fairylore #mythology #folklore

1/ A poem by Sir Walter Scott in the 19th century that contained a lot of fairy lore themes. The poem tells the story of Alice Brand where she flees to the woods with her boyfriend after he kills Alice’s brother. The woods are owned by the fairies and the elfin king resents their presence and does not want them there.

The king sends out one of his fairy followers to curse the boyfriend. #fairylore #mythology #folklore