Rachel Louise Lawrence

British author who translates and adapts folk & fairy tales from original texts & puts them back into print, particularly lesser-known British & Celtic #pwME

[Rachel Louise Lawrence @RLLawrenceBP]

You can now find out about my Works in Progress and stay up-to-date on all my Folk and Fairy Tale releases
#WorkInProgress #FolkTale #FairyTale #projects #ongoing #latest #upcoming #planned
https://t.co/XNJzak2mAY

[Rachel Louise Lawrence @RLLawrenceBP]

#TheNutcracker #ChristmasEve #Storytelling #Unabridged #Original

[Rachel Louise Lawrence @RLLawrenceBP]

Now available in paperback, the legendary Orcadian Dragon Slayer folktale collected by Walter Traill Dennison, “Assipattle and the Mester Stoorworm”
#Orkney #folktale #Scottish #Assipattle #Mester #Stoorworm #DragonSlayer #legend #ATU300
https://t.co/oYU5qpvGai

[Rachel Louise Lawrence @RLLawrenceBP]

[January 2025] Updated and now available in paperback: “Assipattle and the Mester Stoorworm” by Walter Traill Dennison
#Orkney #folktale #Scottish #Assipattle #Mester #Stoorworm #DragonSlayer #legend #ATU300
https://t.co/oYU5qpvGai

[Rachel Louise Lawrence @RLLawrenceBP]

You can now find out about my Works in Progress and stay up-to-date on all my Folk and Fairy Tale releases
#WorkInProgress #FolkTale #FairyTale #projects #ongoing #latest #upcoming #planned
https://t.co/XNJzak2mAY

[Rachel Louise Lawrence @RLLawrenceBP]

[August 2022] New release: “Gypsy Tales: The John Sampson Collection,” includes The Leaves That Hung But Never Grew, Ashypelt, and The Little Bull-Calf
#folktale #fairytale #Roma #Romani #British #Welsh #English #MatthewWood #CorneliusPrice #WastiGray
https://t.co/ioyhrtJ1up

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Regular reminder that the depiction of problematic things in fiction is not an endorsement of those things, that the views of a character are not synonymous with the views of the author, and that writers must be able to write about difficult things without fear of censure.

[Bevan Thomas @bthomasa]

Though werewolves are usually ravening monsters in European fairy tales, werebears are often more sympathetic. They are frequently people cursed with bear form who wander the wilderness sad and alone until someone breaks the curse, returning them their humanity.
#FairyTaleTuesday

[Indie Book Spotlight @BookSpotlight]

WELL DONE, PENGUIN! 👏

[🇵🇸 Sarah Nour 🇱🇧 @SaCha1689]

Irish warrior hero & demigod Cú Chulainn is known for his ríastrad, meaning his transformation into a savage beast, triggered by the heat of battle. When possessed of this supernatural rage, he kills indiscriminately, massacring friend & foe alike. #MythologyMonday

[Granny Pippa Patchwing @GPatchwing]

#FairytaleTuesday
1. Old England, the 12th Night marked the end of a winter festival that started on Samhain, Oct. 31st. The Lord of Misrule symbolizes the world turning upside down in a cold winter. In the middle ages, the Night began on Dec. 25th eve moving forward 12 days

[Bevan Thomas @bthomasa]

Nisse are nordic fairies that resemble tiny, often bearded, people. They live on farms, acting as their secret guardians. They are also linked to the Winter Solstice and Christmas. In Scandinavia, a nisse often helps the Yule Goat to deliver Christmas presents.
#FairyTaleTuesday

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

each year, the people of Catalonia celebrate “the Day of Books and Roses,” a nationwide celebration of literature in which lovers exchange books and the streets are thronged with dancers and book-sellers, and honestly, we could use a holiday like that.

[DreamSwarm @Dream_Swarm]

In many parts of Scandinavia, the traditional Christmas gift giver is the Yule Goat. Sometimes depicted as human sized and at other times as a goat with a Nisse/Tomte leading it along.
Art by Bauer
@FairyTale_Tues
#fairytaletuesday

[Titania @TitaniasRealm]

The Yule Cat (Jólakötturinn) is a huge cat in Icelandic folklore, that roams around the countryside at Yuletide. The Yule Cat looks for people who are not nicely dressed in new clothes for the festivities, and swallows them whole.

#FairyTaleTuesday

Art by @Iren_Horrors

[VenetiaJane's Garden @VenetiaJane]

A legend tells of the ivy's endeavours to make the Earth beautiful, covering bare patches of ground and adorning trees with her shiny green leaves, and producing flowers to feed insects in cold weather. As thanks the nature spirits decreed the ivy would be 'ever-green'. #folklore

[Olivia Armstrong - Storyteller @oliviasstories]

13th December is St. Lucia's Day. In Scandinavia girls wore white dresses and candle wreaths carrying special cakes as they processed. But on this night, the Wild Hunt would also be out, and if it was heard, a cake had to be thrown to appease the spirits... #FairyTaleTuesday

[Don 🌱plant something 🌱 @versaillesboy]

In Celtic folklore, the Cait Sidhe was a creature known to capture the souls of the newly deceased before they traveled to the Afterlife.
To help their loved ones avoid these creatures, mourners strategically spread catnip around to distract these spirits
#FairytaleTuesday

[Therese Taylor @ThereseTaylor12]

'And there stood the oak, stripped of all its leaves, left to rest during the whole of a long winter, and to dream many dreams of events that had happened, just as men dream.' Hans Christian Anderson. #FairyTaleTuesday https://t.co/KynvFsmR6t