#FolkloreSunday
According to folklore, bluebell woods are enchanted places where fairies gather. Bluebells are often called "fairy flowers", and it was believed that when a person walked through a bluebell wood, the flowers would ring out to summon the fairies.
It was thought that picking or stepping on a bluebell was dangerous and could unleash powerful magic, because the faery folk would hang their spells on the bluebells to dry.
Hearing a bluebell ring, was seen as a very bad omen, and the person who heard it could fall under a spell and be abducted by the fairies.
Hearing the chime of the bluebells could even be a premonition of one's own death.
🎨 The Fairy Wood (1903) by Henry Meynell Rheam
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