#Caturday Freyja, the Norse goddess associated with love, fertility, war, gold, and magic. She rides on a chariot pulled by two giant cats, is accompanied by the boar Hildisvíni. Norwegian Forest Cats are the descendants of Freyja’s own cats.
#NationalBlackDogDay A Shuck was known to haunt woodland around Ayr. These black dogs from lore are often seen as an omen of death, but in this tale, Shuck was saving a child from a wolf
from my "Folklore of Scotland"
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art: Barry Moser #31daysofHalloween
Little Red dare not fear, for the last wolf in Scotland was killed by Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel in 1680 at Killiecrankie. She only has to worry about the werewolves now!
more: "Folklore of Scotland"
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art: Yavuz Balkan
In Scottish language, wolf is uolfes, voff, and wolfis
Wolf is often portrayed as more gullible than the cunning fox; and in one Scottish folk tale, fox’s trickery results in wolf losing his tail.
art: Lily Seika Jones
#FairyTaleTuesday
A night raven is a creature in Norwegian folklore, that was thought to be the ghost of a sinner who had assumed the physical form of a raven.
The night raven was a restless soul that would fly around from dusk till dawn, always from east to west, and frighten people who were out at night with their eerie shrieks.
🎨 Maggie Vandewalle