Some Irish folklore this St Patrick’s Day: the Sídhe, the Aos sí, the fair folk, the good people, or the people of the shee from Irish folklore, who live underground. You may know the banshee, or Bean sídhe or woman of the sídhe. In fact the very word Sídhe is the term for earthen mounds like the one in my #linocut and the Aos sí are “the people of mounds.” The Sidhe evolved from a mythological people known as 🧵
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Scottish Folklore: Fairy Mounds
Blog Post: https://blairtales.wordpress.com/2022/02/16/the-otherworld-scottish-fairies-part-4/
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An Irish folklore inspired print for St Patrick’s day - the Sídhe, the Aos sí, the fair folk, the good people, or the people of the shee who live underground. You may know the banshee, or Bean sídhe or woman of the sídhe. In fact the very word Sídhe is the term for earthen mounds like the one in my #linocut and the Aos sí are “the people of mounds.” The Sidhe evolved from a mythological people known as the Tuatha De Danaan, 🧵1/n
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Another recent print from #FolktaleWeek2023 for #ArtAdventCalendar: the Sídhe, the Aos sí, the fair folk, the good people, or the people of the shee from Irish folklore, who live underground. You may know the banshee, or Bean sídhe or woman of the sídhe. In fact the very word Sídhe is the term for earthen mounds like the one in my #linocut and the Aos sí are “the people of mounds.” 🧵1/n
#printmaking #folklore #mythology #AosSí #Sidhe #fairyMound #folktales #MastoArt #illustration
For the #FolktaleWeek2023 underground prompt I’ve illustrated the Sídhe, the Aos sí, the fair folk, good people, or people of the shee from Irish folklore, who live underground. You may know the banshee, or Bean sídhe or woman of the sídhe. In fact the very word Sídhe is the term for earthen mounds like the one in my #linocut and the
Aos sí are “the people of mounds.” The Sidhe evolved from a mythological people 🧵1/n
#printmaking #folklore #mythology #MastoArt #Sidhe #fairyMound #folktales
Ele Willoughby, PhD
Blair