#FolkloreSunday

Thank you all for your amazing Gothic posts today. Unfortunately due to technical issues I haven’t been able to send any replies. Next week’s theme is: FLOWERS & WILDLIFE of EARLY SUMMER. Reposts on the hashtag #FolkloreSunday after 10:30 am BST. Img: Cicely Mary Barker

Thank you all for your amazing Gothic posts today. Unfortunately due to technical issues I haven’t been able to send any replies. Next week’s theme is: FLOWERS & WILDLIFE of EARLY SUMMER. Reposts on the hashtag #FolkloreSunday after 10:30 am BST. Img: Cicely Mary Barker

Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams, gave his name to the drug morphine. He was the son of Hypnos, god of sleep, and Pasithea, goddess of hallucinations. Legend says Morpheus and his kin slept in a dark cave strewn with poppy petals and sleep-inducing seeds. #FolkloreSunday

#FolkloreSunday In Scandinavian folklore, a gast is the ghost of an evil person, that no longer looks anything like the person it once was and has been transformed into a monstrous creature. The gast roams around at night and sucks the life force out of everyone it comes across. 🎨 Johan Egerkrans

SCOTLAND'S FAIRY COFFINS In 1836 in a rocky crag known as Arthur’s Seat, a little cave was found containing 17 tiny coffins, 4 inches long, inside were miniature wooden figures. They remain mysterious and associated with witchcraft, fairy funerals & mock burials #FolkloreSunday

#Alliums symbolise protection & strength. In #Celtic #myth garlic was used to ward off evil #spirits, demons, werewolves & vampires. Allium is linked to ancient #word meaning "monster slayer". Also called, ambassador, gladiator & globemaster. #FolkloreSunday

Glamis Castle is a gothic delight. Within each generation of the Earls of Strathmore, a vampire is born, hidden away in a secret room. One tale is of a young girl caught drinking the blood of a guest. She was walled-up 'alive' in the castle. #FolkloreSunday #Scotland

#FolkloreSunday “This vampire which is amongst us…can command all the meaner things, the rat, and the owl, and the bat, the moth, and the fox, and the wolf, he can grow and become small, and he can at times vanish and come unknown” ―Van Helsing, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Chapter 18.

Irish author Bram Stoker was from Clontarf, Dublin. It is thought that his #gothic horror novel Dracula, was inspired by his mother's memory of the cholera epidemic of 1832 in Sligo! Dracula was published 26 May 1897. #FolkloreSunday 🧛‍♂️🦇 twitter.com/rtenews/status…

Bram Stokers’ #Gothic masterpiece #Dracula was inspired by a holiday in Whitby & that is where he has the world’s most famous vampire landing on 26th May 1897. This is now known as #WorldDraculaDay. #FolkloreSunday #Victorian #Whitby Harbour by John Atkinson Grimshaw

Emily Brontë wrote a novel while living on a moor so isolated that visitors described the house as “a place the wind never leaves.” She would wander the moors alone for hours, her notebook filled with storm patterns she felt revealed “the moods of the earth.” #folkloresunday

There have been many sightings of a faceless, robed monk beside the ruins of Deer Abbey in Aberdeenshire 👻 #FolkloreSunday

Robin Redcap of Hermitage Castle, the murderous goblin known for residing in castles. He soaks his cap in his victim's blood more: "Boggarts, Brownies, Hobs and their Goblin Kin" by Stephen G. Rae folklorepress.co.uk #folkloresunday #scotland

One of the most gothtastic places must be Whitby. Its famous 199 steps are flanked with what appear to be benches. They are actually coffin rests, enabling those carrying caskets up to St Mary's Church to take a break. #FolkloreSunday #gothic #folklore #goth

#FolkloreSunday “But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.” – Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla. 🎨John Butler Yeats. #Gothic

In Cumbrian dialects, 'fellin-girse' is green hellebore. A plant full of mystery and magic, and of gothic delight, used to call forth demons and curse enemies more: "Folklore of the Lake District" bardofcumberland.com/folklore/ art: Isaak Levitan #FolkloreSunday

#FolkloreSunday “I saw around us a ring of wolves, with white teeth and lolling red tongues, with long, sinewy limbs and shaggy hair. They were a hundred times more terrible in the grim silence which held them than ever when they howled. For myself, I felt a sort of paralysis of fear. It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.” - Jonathan Harker ; Dracula, Bram Stoker. Chapter 1

🌳🐉🌳Always collect and plant acorns - one day you might hatch an Oak Dragon! #FolkyFriday #FolkWitchFriday #FolkloreSunday

#FolkloreSunday “Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?” - Bram Stoker, Dracula. #WorldDraculaDay is celebrated every year on May 26 commemorating the publication date of Bram Stoker’s novel in 1897.

Passageway - Rosalie Lettau #FolkloreSunday